Check out this episode from NPR’s From The Top featuring the great Bela Fleck and a young bassist named Mike Thurber. Just visit this page and click the ‘Listen’ button at the top. I love From The Top. To me, it is one of the best examples of how to...
Yesterday I created a Facebook group for the Contrabass Conversations podcast. These groups are an extremely cool way to share ideas, photos, videos, links, and the like with other group members, and if you’ve got anything that you want mentioned on the show...
This is a video of a section of my recital yesterday for the Silk Music Camp in Lisle, Illinois. I am doing a demonstration with the bass, and the first minute or so features me explaining some fundamentals of the bass. I’m basically improvising this...
In her recent post on the Cincinnati.com Classical Music Blog, Janelle Gelfand brought to my attention this recent article from Freep.com, an online component of the Detroit Free Press:After 20 years of labor peace, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra is in a showdown that...
I have been checking in regularly with Corner Violin Shop, a blog started by A. Cavallo Violins about daily life in a violin shop. This blog is an outstanding example of a small business utilizing the power of social media (like blogs, podcasts, Facebook, YouTube, and...
