Jacque Harper sent me a link to this recent post from On An Overgrown Path. It is a review of Vivaldi and the Number 3 by Ron Butlin, which sounds like a very interesting book. Check out the post here–it’s a lot of fun, and it looks like a good...
If you want to read about real winter misery, check out my story titled Freelancing + Snow = Pain.We’ve been socked left and right with horrible, miserable weather here in Chicago this month. First we got hit by a massive Arctic bubble of air, plunging...
This is a great video of Monti’s Czardas by double bassist Roman Patkolo (with Jan Jirmasek accompanying on bass) and Maxim Vengerov on violin. Guanaco from the Cellomania blog recently sent me a link to this post.Digging through my archives, I realized that I...
Gmail has now been officially opened to the public worldwide. If you haven’t gotten a Gmail account yet, you should definitely sign up for one. I pay Yahoo! Mail $20 a year for fewer features than Gmail gives you for free. Gmail is now available in the following...
Former Chicago Symphony Orchestra principal percussionist was featured in a recent New York Times article. Double bassist John Grillo let me know about this article, which is definitely worth a read.I played with Ted in the American Russian Youth Orchestra (see my...
