Here’s some interesting trivia about Erich Wolfgang Korngold, passed along to me by Wendy Evans, the personnel manager of the Elgin Symphony (of which I’ve been a member for the past 10 years). We have played both the Korngold Violin Concerto and his music...
Drew McManus of Adaptistration and Inside the Arts (a blog network on which I am a member) put out a post about a recent article by Charles Purdy listing the top ten worst paying careers: Music: The 4th Worst-Paying Degree You Can Earn by Drew McManus On this list,...
My longtime friend Dan Shomper (I arranged Bottesini’s Passione Amorose for us to play on a recital about 10 years ago, so he’s an honorary bassist as well!) just performed the Elgar Cello Concerto in Annapolis, MD and got a great write-up in the Baltimore...
I like to cross-post videos that I put out for Midwest Young Artists that I also think would be of interest to readers of this blog. In this video, Northwestern University trumpet professor Charlie Geyer coaches the MYA Brass Class, giving some valuable advice about...
George Amorim, one of the 2010 Chicago Bass Festival clinicians and Assistant Professor of Double Bass at the University of Texas-Pan American, will be hosting the third edition of Viva el Bajo later this week. Check it out if you can! I see that Jeff Eckels will be...
