Boston Symphony Assistant Principal Bass Lawrence Wolfe has discovered what may be the original, handwritten edition of Bille Book One. This is a tremendous find for all bassists if it’s the original, but he’s asking the help of the bass community...
I can’t help but notice that all of my fellow students coming in late to class at DePaul University or Oakton Community College are invariably carrying piping-hot cups of Starbucks coffee with them. How long did it take to get that coffee? Is that a good idea...
As we move (slowly but surely) into spring, we’ll be putting out a gaggle of cool new interview episodes on Contrabass Conversations. If you haven’t stopped by the site recently, check it out–I just did a pretty radical redesign, and I’d like...
Here’s another entry from a bassist for the YouTube Symphony featuring the recitatives (perhaps the most standard audition excerpt ever) from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and some Mozart 39:
Even a handful of walking notes is cool on the bass….
