On An Overgrown Path: Free music – so what’s new? Pliable discusses the merits of giving away free classical music when prices for recordings (at least in the UK) are already so low. (tags: overgrown path classical music blog download) The Life Cycle of a...
I’ve written several times on this blog about both why I teach music and reasons why one might choose music teaching as a career. I’ve also wrestled with misconceptions across the performer/educator divide, finding myself alternately surprised, shocked,...
Goodbye, Columbus Symphony Norman Lebrecht writes: “A colleague in Columbus, Ohio, has alerted me to a local downturn. The city is planning to shrink its symphony orchestra into a chamber ensemble, abolishing 22 positions and cutting the concert season by half....
Here’s a video of the Esbjörn Svensson Trio playing the intro to “Behind The Yashmak” live at the Jazz à Juan Les Pins festival in France from July 19, 2003.
Double bassist Rob Oxoby wrote in a great comment outlining an alternative exercise to the one described by doublebassblog.org contributor Phillip Serna. Rob writes: I was able to do this for about 45 seconds. However, it seems to me that this is the wrong kind...
