Vito Liuzzi plays Nino Rota and Bottesini

I’ve blogged before about Vito Liuzzi’s performance of the Divertimento Concertante by Nino Rota, posting video of the first two sections in earlier blog posts (that annoying 10 minute limit on YouTube videos really gets in the way with classical...

Double Bass and Single Love

Double Bass and Single Love, originally uploaded by A-Wop-Bop-A-Loo-Bop!. Look out for your bridge, folks, or this could happen to you. This 30-year-old photograph shows a monstrous bass owned by a bassist in the Halle Orchestra.

Alex Ross talks about classical music at Googleplex

Google has been hosting a series called Authors @ Google at their Mountain View, CA headquarters.  They recently had New Yorker writer Alex Ross speak about his new book "The Rest is Noise".  I have seen this video of the presentation pop up on the...

Insightful Rabbath technique comment from Benjy

Bass blog contributor Benjy wrote a wonderful comment after viewing the Hans Sturm videos about the Rabbath technique that we’ve been posting here. Since comment can quickly disappear under the radar here (due to the daily avalanche of new content), I thought...

Arts Addict – my new blog

Readers of Adaptistration, the orchestra management blog by Drew McManus, may have noticed this in the sidebar recently: Arts Addict A new blog from Jason Heath coming Nov. 19th Whaaaa?  Jason is starting a new blog?  Yes, I am.  Although regular...