I’m currently at the Illinois Music Educators Association (IMEA) clinic in Peoria, and I’ll be doing clinic tomorrow morning about bass tone. I think that my subtitle will be either “That Sounds Bad” or “Why That Sounds Bad” and...
From last week: Members of YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011 Announced Today 101 musicians from more than 30 countries will perform for a global audience at Sydney Opera House in March, 2011 YouTube Symphony Orchestra 2011 is a partnership with the London Symphony...
From Virginia Dixon (former Contrabass Conversations guest): My most scenic course will be my Book 1 course at the Colorado Suzuki Institute at Beaver Creek, Colorado from June 18 through 26. This is resort condo living at its most reasonable and can be especially fun...
Bass blog reader Adam writes: I was reading through some of the destruction stories on your blog and decided to share one of my own. I got a call from one of my student’s fathers while I was driving to a gig. He said the bass had imploded and asked if I’d...
Barry Lieberman (a former Contrabass Conversations guest) recently sent me his latest DVD featuring him interviewing Gary Karr along with Karr performances with Harmon Lewis and Kuniko Furuhata. I’ll be releasing this soon on Contrabass Conversations. Wonderful...
