I just stumbled across this great video showing the current New World Symphony bass section playing an excerpt from the first movement of Brahms’ Symphony No. 1. Cool! If you want to hear interviews with several former New World Symphony bassists (including my...
Here’s a vintage recording of Gary Karr performing Paganini’s Moses Fantasy–a staple of his performing career. I know that Gary’s recording inspired me to learn this piece when I was in high school, and I’m sure that he did the same for...
New York Times tech journalist David Pogue is a recent Twitter fan, with several reservations: I’ll admit that, for the longest time, I was exasperated by the Twitter hype. Like the world needs ANOTHER ego-massaging, social-networking time drain? Between e-mail...
You have to have been living under a rock not to have heard about the YouTube Symphony project. This is likely to be the first of many online collaborative projects like this, and I can only think that it helps the world of classical music. London Symphony principal...
I’m taking advantage of a rare non-snowing day (and a balmy 30 degrees, no less!) to walk around and lament about winter. On a brighter note, I just got an awesome new Flip Mino video cam, which I’m using to shoot these snowy little clips.
