As a bass player, it’s a rare treat to be able to spend the summer playing chamber music with world class performers (and getting paid for it!). This is my fourth year of performing for the Midsummers Music Festival, and I’m just as pumped as ever to get...
This is a guest post from double bassist and early music specialist Jerry Fuller. Learn more about Jerry and his early music podcast at ArsAntiguaPresents.com. ______________ I had a fascinating day. I performed Biber’s Mensa Sonora composed in 1680 with...
After publishing my first book Road Warrior Without and Expense Account last month, I’m hard at work editing my next book, which will feature scores of crazy gig stories and will (probably) be titled “My Car Caught Fire and Exploded!” This amusing...
Today is the two-year anniversary of my recital on the Karr-Koussevitzy bass. I had a real whirlwind of a week when doing that recital, putting on a student recital the previous day and getting packed up to head off to a chamber music festival in Door County,...
We’ve had a lot of heavy posts here on the blog recently, and though I usually save this sort of stuff for Friday, I thought that some head banging kittens were the perfect thing for a beautiful June day. Maybe I’ve got kittens on the brain after taking my...
