Frank Almond, the Concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony and one of my fellow Inside the Arts bloggers, sent me a link to this story from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that exquisitely captures the way many bass players would like to be remembered at their wake:...
Mac nerds (I know you’re out there!), rejoice: Webdesigner Depot recently put out a wonderful retrospective of Apple ads over the ages. Think that Apple ads were always clean and simple? Just check out all the text-heavy ads from the 80s and early 90s. It...
Three years ago, my (now) wife and I got engaged and almost immediately afterward both decided to dump freelance music in favor of other career paths. I opted for music education (a transition well-documented here on the blog) and, after a few years spent slogging my...
The next several episodes of the Contrabass Conversations podcast will feature non-bass episodes covering topics that should be of interest to all musicians. I’ll be promoting these episodes at my other blog Arts Addict as well (I usually don’t do this for...
Today’s video features double bassist extraordinaire Guy Tuneh (former Contrabass Conversations guest) performing the Mozart Kirchensonaten in C Major for the 2009 Bodensee Festival. Guy has appeared many times here on the blog and on Contrabass Conversations,...
