Doing Their Jobs In Nashville by Drew McManus

In case you haven’t heard, the Schermerhorn Symphony Center (home of the Nashville Symphony) has been hit hard by the severe flooding in Nashville. Check out the details from Drew McManus: Doing Their Jobs In Nashville by Drew McManus

Korngold Trivia

Here’s some interesting trivia about Erich Wolfgang Korngold, passed along to me by Wendy Evans, the personnel manager of the Elgin Symphony (of which I’ve been a member for the past 10 years). We have played both the Korngold Violin Concerto and his music...

Music: The 4th Worst-Paying Degree You Can Earn by Drew McManus

Drew McManus of Adaptistration and Inside the Arts (a blog network on which I am a member) put out a post about a recent article by Charles Purdy listing the top ten worst paying careers: Music: The 4th Worst-Paying Degree You Can Earn by Drew McManus On this list,...

Dan Shomper rocks the Elgar Cello Concerto

My longtime friend Dan Shomper (I arranged Bottesini’s Passione Amorose for us to play on a recital about 10 years ago, so he’s an honorary bassist as well!) just performed the Elgar Cello Concerto in Annapolis, MD and got a great write-up in the Baltimore...

Viva el Bajo – South Texas Double Bass Master Class

George Amorim, one of the 2010 Chicago Bass Festival clinicians and Assistant Professor of Double Bass at the University of Texas-Pan American, will be hosting the third edition of Viva el Bajo later this week. Check it out if you can! I see that Jeff Eckels will be...