John Grillo sent me a link to this story in today’s New York Times:An anonymous donor has promised $90 million for the Frank Gehry-designed future home of the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Fla., one of the largest gifts to a classical music institution. The...
I posted a fairly innocuous post last week about the Basso Moderno duo playing music written for them by Yoko Ono, and it has triggered a fairly amusing argument in the comments of this post. Many people don’t like Yoko Ono. Check out the discussion!
Finally, there are some orchestral jobs holding double bass auditions! Some of them are the same ones we’ve been seeing for the last few years over and over (Buffalo Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony) but some are new. Here are details:Detroit Symphony...
Matt Wengerd has been writing some really interesting posts about music and the bass over on his blog 104 Weeks. I’ve always enjoyed Matt’s writing–it is interesting to read his experiences at different jazz events (like his post about the IAJE...
Double bassist Jacque Harper recently sent me a link to Stuff On My Cat, one of the greatest cat websites out there. I’ve loved looking at this website for a long time. Non-cat lovers may not realize that when a cat is sleepy, they often become totally...
