Double bassist Nicholas Hart attended the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and contributed a series of thoughtful posts a few years back here on the blog. Here’s one of my favorite posts of his: The Psychology of Being Musical by Nick Hart I came across...
John Grillo has provided me with some old tapes of the great double bass performer and pedagogue Frederick Zimmermann practicing the bass. These recoedings have been floating around for some time, and they have actually been quite influential in shaping how many...
Double bassist, blogger, and entrepreneur John Grillo has been a pivotal part of Contrabass Conversations since its inception in early 2007. John was one of our very first guests on the podcast, and his role quickly grew to that of collaborator and co-host. John and I...
One of the most popular things ever to grace the front page of this blog (and one of the top hits on Google for double bass even after all these years) is the ten-part video series Exploring the Double Bass with Lyric Opera of Chicago bassist Andy Anderson. In...
The New Millennium Orchestra of Chicago will be at The Morton Arboretum for two performances July 25 at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. This is a great setting for a concert, and it’s great to see a new orchestra doing performances in these “troubled economic...
