While attempting to do some hunting around for public domain scores earlier this week, I was greeted by the following message from the IMSLP (International Music Score Library Project): On Saturday October 13, 2007, I received a second Cease and Desist letter from...
We’ve featured this great tune from L’Orchestre de Contrebasses before, but it’s great to see it in this excellent live rendition. What an excellent ensemble, and what a great example of the varied repertoire available to bass ensembles these days. ...
Corin Long’s sister Vanessa has booked Longslade Community College in Birstall, Leicester for a memorial concert for the late Royal Philharmonic principal bassist, who tragically died in an accident earlier this year. Vanessa writes: The concert will be...
Bass blog contributor Benjy recently sent me a link to this video featuring Rinat Avisar with the Israel Kibbutz Orchestra performing the Concerto Capriccioso by Haïm Permont:...
One of the biggest challenges for a blogger is making useful older content easy to access without becoming an annoying self-promotion machine. I am always struggling with this, and I’ll probably do highlight posts like this every once in a while. ...
