Here is some great news from WGBH in Boston:The staff at iTunes has honored WGBH 89.7 FM’s weekly classical music podcast, “WGBH Classical Performances”, as one of their “Best of 2006”. Available through iTunes and wgbh.org/classical, the...
WGBH 89.7 FM’s Classics in the Morning’s Cathy Fuller will host NPR’s nationwide broadcast of the Vienna Philharmonic’s beloved traditional New Year’s Day Concert. The concert, broadcast direct from the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in...
Here is a great video of jazz bassist Marco Panascia soloing over rhythm changes. Notice how Marco uses a positional approach to his soloing. He tends to cross stings and do pivots to stay in a position for a length of time rather than shifting up and down the string....
I realized yesterday that I had not added the excellent blog Adaptistration by Drew McManus to my music blogroll. I just did so, and you can find it in my sidebar on the left. Drew’s blog is about the changing face of the symphony orchestra, and it is a really...
Muso is a magazine from the U.K. that is aimed at younger fans of classical music. I recently checked out their site, and it looks like a good read. Click the photo to visit the site–they have a survey on the front page that you may want to take.I haven’t...