How “Not” to Play Hindemith?

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPzcsPVyVdM My student Dave Elbrecht pointed this out to me. Here’s what the video includes as commentary: A "how not to play" demonstration of the Hindemith Double Bass Sonata, 3rd movement. Don’t play it too...

You want me to play…. with those?

Jason’s wife, Courtney, here. Though I’m not a bassist, I do play a large instrument (the harp, whose lowest note is the same C as a bass’ with a C extension), and as such I feel an affinity for my bass- playing bretheren and hope you’ll...

Mad Men and reminiscences of an earlier era

Ahhh, Mad Men. My brother got me into the show over the summer of 2009. I don’t watch anything on actual live television (I don’t even remember how to switch our entertainment center over to live TV!), generally waiting until a season of a show has...