The dynamic mandolin/bass powerhouse of Edgar Meyer and Chris Thile return to Chicago this fall for a concert at the University of Chicago on October 24 at 7:30 p.m. Here’s a link to the University of Chicago performance series website section on the Edgar...
Here’s another video (again courtesy of Italian bassist Vito Liuzzi) featuring double bass soloist extraordinaire Franco Petracchi performing “Alla Marcia” by Nino Rota (Divertimento Concertante) during a perfomance in Japan some years ago. Vito also writes: A...
This video (courtesy of Italian bassist Vito Liuzzi) features the incomparable bass virtuoso Franco Petracchi performing the Bottesini Tarantella on a hard-to-find documentary that RAI (Italian state television) did on this great artist:
Double bassist Vito Liuzzi sent me a link to this excellent performance of the Rossini Duetto featuring the incomparable bassist Franco Petracchi with Italian cellist Vittorio Ceccanti:
Double bass blogger Cyndy sent me a link to a recent post of hers that features truly horrifying treatment of a double bass by a baggage handler. She was fortunate to capture this double bass beating on video–who knows how many times this kind of abuse happens...
