One of the fun things about running a blog is seeing how posts from many years ago still generate comments. The following comment comes from a discussion from 2007 about the merits of the Rabbath and Simandl systems as teaching materials for younger students. The...
Jeff Weisner (National Symphony double bassist and former Contrabass Conversations guest, and a regular contributor to doublebassblog.org) let me know that Ira Gold (also a National Symphony double bassist and former Contrabass Conversations guest) will be joining the...
Here’s a pic of me during the last week teaching at Northwestern’s National High School Music Institute. Yes, I am a nerd.
Careful what you wish for–you just might get it! I submitted a clinic proposal for the January 2011 Illinois Music Educators Association (IMEA) All-State Convention. They only accept a select handful of string-focused clinics, so I figured that mine didn’t...
I always love how Barry Green (a former Contrabass Conversations guest, bass teacher, and author of the Inner Game of Music and other books) imaginatively uses new technologies and ideas in his teaching and performing. Fromm jazzing up the Bach cello suites and...
