Call for comments at the Virtual Master Class

We’ve put out some new tracks from bassists looking for some constructive criticism.  If you’ve got a moment, check out the Virtual Master Class index and leave a comment or two on some of the tracks there.  The bassists submitting the tracks would...

John Grillo on the resonating pitch of black holes

ClassicalMusicNews.tv blogger John Grillo has just put out a very interesting post about the discovery a few years ago that a Bb 52 octaves lower than the piano was emanating from the Perseus cluster of galaxies. John writes: Throughout history, music and astronomy...

Dreaming of a White Christmas???

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. ...

Live video of Passione Amorosa

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...