Here’s a link to the classic Omnibus film of Leonard Bernstein explaining Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, using discarded ideas from Beethoven’s notebooks to show his though process. A classic well worth checking out.
A painful tale from a reader: Dear Jason, Inspired by stories of bass destruction in your blog, and especially Adam’s latest story, I felt an urge to share my own personal trauma. A few months after I bought my first bass, I was on my way home from a gig as a...
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I spent the past several days attending clinics and performances at the 2011 American String Teachers Association Conference in Kansas City. I always get a lot out of these events. It’s a chance to meet with people who have my equivalent job in other areas of...
The new DVD package Art of the Left Hand, conceived of as a follow-up piece to Art of the Bow and featuring Francois Rabbath, received a glowing and quite detailed review in the latest issue of Strings Magazine. Here’s a PDF of the excerpt in question for your...
