The American String Project featured in Strings Magazine

We’ve featured music from the conductorless American String Project and its artistic co-director Barry Lieberman several times before here on the blog and on Contrabass Conversations. Check out this April 2010 article from Strings Magazine about The American...

Oscar Levant plays Concerto in F

I recently played a concert with the Elgin Symphony where we accompanied old movie clips, something that I always enjoy. It’s fun to see the audience reacting to these movie clips with a live orchestra providing the soundtrack, and it’s always an exercise...

Even cats love the iPad!

Several folks have passed along the following link to me, knowing me to be a lover of cats and of my new iPad. This has been pretty popular on YouTube, so you may have already seen it, but check it out if you haven’t–it’s amazing to see how cats can...

PBDB: The Toughest Question, Part 2

(crossposted from PBDB) In Part 1, we looked at fears that keep us from asking ourselves the toughest question that we all must face as musicians looking to have a professional career: Do I have what it takes? In this part, we’ll look at the next step in the process:...