My friend and IRIS Chamber Orchestra pianist Josh Nemith just started a blog for pianists. So far he has a lot of information about local Cincinnati piano resources as well as a post about the New World Symphony. Josh was the New World Symphony pianist for two...
Robert Orth, one of my favorite baritones, is performing in Carmina Burana with the Elgin Symphony this weekend. You can find out more information about the performances at the Elgin Symphony website.The orchestra plays this classic concert warhorse quite well, but...
The 2007 Whitewater Winter Bassfest, an event that I started five years ago at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, just happened a couple of weekends ago. Scott Kreger, the new double bass instructor at UWW and a member of the Milwaukee Symphony, was teaching...
I happened to catch one of the most engaging and fascinating lectures that I have ever heard in my life with blogger, copyright expert, and science fiction writer Cory Doctorow. Fulbright Chair in Public Diplomacy at the USC Center on Public Diplomacy and co-author of...
Here is a short (but excellent) clip of double bassist Boguslaw Furtok playing the last movement of the Eccles Sonata. The camera zooms in on his right hand, giving viewers an opportunity to check out his bow grip. German players are most likely more aware of the...