Chicago Symphony Orchestra bassist and blogger Michael Hovnanian recently wrote a post detailing the enormous amount of music that was sitting out in his studio prior to a recent organizing spree.This post in an interesting view into the types of materials that a...
I wrote a post last fall highlighting the Bogdon Box Bass. This extremely inexpensive instrument sounds quite good. Check out the tonal differences between the Bogdon bass and the upright bass–I actually think that the Bogdon bass sounds better in some respects,...
People are discovering the Contrabass Conversations podcast by the boatloads after this week’s François Rabbath episode and last week’s Ira Gold episode. I’d like to welcome new listeners and thank the listeners who have been tuning in since the...
In 1984, Deutsche Grammophon put out a recording of West Side Story featuring Kiri Te Kanawa (Maria), José Carreras (Tony), Tatiana Troyanos (Anita), and Kurt Ollmann (Riff). This recording is, to put it mildly, bizarre, with these operatic titans producing a final...
Last week I wrote a piece covering the Joshua Bell train station busking story that has been floating around the Internet. Many bloggers have added their two cents to this story (you can visit my previous post for links to some of these other bloggers’...
