What motivates us? What makes us get into this business, anyway, making numerous sacrifices along the way? Not the money (ha!), but rather the drive to create, to devote one’s life to the pursuit of organized (i.e. musical) creativity. What percentage of active...
This is our next installment of Lyric Opera of Chicago and Grant Park Symphony bassist Andy Anderson’s Virtual Lesson series. This episode delves into the topic of spiccato–a topic that we’ll be exploring in depth in the following few episodes of...
This topic was actually the very first personal narrative ever attempted here on the blog, a little less than a year ago. While I still enjoy this previous post (with pictures of the described drive), the topic of all-night commuting is such a painfully bizarre one...
The following is a guest post from Double Bass Blog contributor Phillip W. Serna. Check out Phillip’s recitals and interviews on his Contrabass Conversations page, and visit him online at http://www.phillipwserna.com/. Enjoy!__________________Continuing...
This is our next installment of Lyric Opera of Chicago and Grant Park Symphony bassist Andy Anderson’s Virtual Lesson series. This episode delves into the topic of spiccato–a topic that we’ll be exploring in depth in the following few episodes of...
