Here’s a video of double bassist and friend of doublebassblog.org Guy Tuneh performing a excerpt of Bruch’s Kol Nidrei with the Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra. Enjoy!
Applications are now being accepted for the National High School Music Institute at Northwestern University, just north of Chicago in Evanston, Illinois. I’ll be teaching bass there, and I’m looking forward to working with serious-minded students intent on...
Here’s a sampling of images from the 2010 Chicago Bass Festival, which was held on February 7th at Ravinia’s Bennett-Gordon Hall in Highland Park, IL. More pics (and videos!) to follow shortly! Here I am introducing the clinicians. Spot any familiar faces?...
OK–whatever meager charm snow on the ground has is now gone for me. Time for spring. …though Independence Grove is pretty even with a foot of snow!
I’ve had my far share of bad car problems (!), and I therefore approach anything automotive-related with a great deal of trepidation. When my wife’s Saturn wagon (a carbon copy of the car that I escaped from back in 2004 prior to its fiery demise) finally...
