Chicago Sinfonietta and Lake Forest Symphony bassist Alan Steiner sent me the following from a colleague who moved to Ohio a few years ago. It’s a combination of ‘The Shining’ and my own actual memories of growing up in South Dakota. ...
This great performance of Bottesini’s ‘Passione Amorosa’ with bassists Minjea-Soung and Mikyung-Soung is only marred by the cell phone capture quality of the performance. There’s some lag, and it looks like the ‘camerman’ was...
Double Bass, originally uploaded by alistercoyne.
Snow day in Chicago Brian Dickie took a very pretty photo of Chicago right after this past snowstorm. Much nicer-looking than the roads on my harrowing Milwaukee trip home. (tags: brian dickie snow chicago milwaukee) Honolulu symphony can’t pay musicians –...
We’re beginning to roll out some polls again here at DBB.org. This first one should be interesting–how many Nutcracker performances have you played in your life? This one should separate ballet veterans from the pack! You can vote here in this post or over...