Double bassist Kirsten Paige forwarded me this striking photo of the New York Philharmonic’s bass trunks backstage at the Shanghai Grand Theater during a recent tour. NY Phil bassist Bill Blossom can be seen in the background opening up his trunk. No bassist in...
This is a new feature for the doublebassblog.org Virtual Master Class project. Double bassist Ian Hallas has stepped up to the plate and offered up this (and several other) video performances for this project. Leave criticism, advice, practice tips, and the like by...
People often ask me how much time I spend working on doublebassblog.org, Contrabass Conversations, Arts Addict, and my other online endeavors. While I certainly put in a significant amount of time on all these projects, they have grown organically over...
Click the player above to hear the next track in the Virtual Master Class Project. This is a recording of an excerpt from Ein Heldenleben by Richard Strauss. Leave criticism, advice, practice tips, and the like by clicking on the ‘comments’ link below. We welcome you...
Here’s an upcoming double bass event for those in the Boston area: Longy School of Music FACULTY ARTIST RECITAL String Department presents Pascale Delache-Feldman, double bass with Emmanuel Feldman, cello Esther Ning-Yau, piano Music by Jon Deak (B. B. Wolf),...
