Violinist Holly Mulcahy (who has suggested many a good cat video for this blog) wrote an excellent post on The Partial Observer about how a career as a professional orchestra musician can make one feel like a zoo animal. Holly has been a member of several professional...
This is the second movement of the Koussevitzky Concerto as performed by Iztok Hrastnik. Bass blog reader Jake Siener sent me a link to this video, along with a link to the first movement of this concerto performance:Related Posts:François Péloquin performs...
Here is some information for an upcoming Ann Arbor Symphony audition. Interestingly, they are providing links to copies of some of the audition repertoire, so even if you aren’t taking this audition, you may want to go ahead and download the repertoire files...
Double bassist Kells Nollenberger took this shot of me while interviewing Time for Three bassist Ranaan Meyer for this week’s Contrabass Conversations podcast. I’m doing a conference call over Skype with bassist John Grillo and Ranaan, and recording the...
My cats love the fresh air, but we live in an urban area. That’s when a cat stroller comes in handy! I took this video today around Evanston. I originally planned to take them to see the Fourth of July parade up around my place (like they’d care), but I...
