I recently had an article about podcasting published in The Scroll, which is the Illinois state journal for the American String Teachers Association. Titled Podcasting with Midwest Young Artists, it is a piece both about why podcasting is a good fit for a youth music...
I put out a post last week about how more classical musicians are starting to use Twitter and was pleasantly rewarded with a very positive response from many readers and a lot of new classical music Twitter fans, many of whom let me know that they’ve been...
Here are a few cool new developments that have been going on recently in the low-end blogosphere: We’re on Stitcher! Contrabass Conversations is now featured on Stitcher, a really cool service that aggregates your favorite podcasts together into a seamless...
Here’s a cute drawing of a double bass by Debbie Hill, a funky U.K. visual artist.
The Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra management would make a fascinating case study. They seem, to a detached but highly annoyed outside observer like me, to be representative of everything that’s wrong with the orchestra world. It’s too bad–I have a lot...
