Composer John Adams has started a blog. Called Hell Mouth (great name, don’t you think?), at present it covers a variety of musical and non-musical topics. Here are a few that I connected with: What Music Can and Cannot Do Hocking a Hooey at the Concert Great...
More great content from the Doublebassscore YouTube channel: -performed by Klaus Stoll (former Contrabass Conversations guest) Thanks to John Grillo for pointing this out to me!
Longtime friend of the blog Brian Roessler, bassist for the Fantastic Merlins, has a multi-part series about François Rabbath (former Contrabass Conversations guest) being published on Destination Out. Here’s a link to the first part–it’s really...
I rarely use this blog to actually plug anything that I do (other than urging folks to read my crazy gig stories, I suppose), but I’d like to take this opportunity to announce that I’ll be teaching bass this summer at Northwestern University’s...
It’s survey time! We’re soliciting reader opinions on the top music schools in the United States. Please take a moment or two and visit the link below to fill out your own personal ranking. This should prove to generate some interesting data that we can...
