I am playing “The Student Prince” for the Music by the Lake festival in Williams Bay, Wisconsin this week. Williams Bay is on the shores of Lake Geneva and is a really beautiful setting for a concert. The concerts take place at Aurora University, which is...
I don’t know if readers of my blog have been checking out the excellent website chicagoclassicalmusic.org recently, but if not they really should (especially Chicagoans). There are really great articles, chats, links, and concert information. This blog features...
Most of my YouTube content will be posted on my spin-off blog bassfun.blogspot.com, but some topical videos will also be posted here. A lot of internet cafes and schools block YouTube, so if you just see blank white boxes in some of my posts then that is most likely...
I just stumbled across this great video of violinist Maxim Verngerov and several bass players playing Monti’s “Czardas”. Does anyone know who these bassists (particularly the one playing the solo part) are? Leave me a comment if you know. Stephen...
Click the tab marked “FUN” in the header and you will be taken to my new spin-off blog. I really like my old tagboard, poll, photos, and the like, but it really slows down the loading of the blog and nails the user with pop-ups. If you click on...
