Boy–I wrote a lot of these back in the day! They’re throwing knives at us in the pit! – No matter how you cut it, pit musicians are an easy target for falling debris (whether confetti, props from the stage, or even singers sometimes!). After all, we are crammed...
More stories from years past: The Babbling Conductor – I’m skating on thin ice with this post! The classical music world is surprisingly small, after all, and anydisparaging talk about conductors, even in the most anonymous terms, is likely to trickle back to the...
Hmmm… it’s June 17–I wonder what I’m doing right now? Probably not sitting in front of the computer (which is why I’m putting this out early and not letting the blog sit fallow for a couple of weeks): My Car Caught Fire and Exploded! –...
Here’s the podcast rundown (I don’t think I missed any) from my always excellent Contrabass Conversations co-host John Grillo and all of his wonderful contributions to the podcast over the years: Ed Barker interview The State of the Orchestra Differences...
Though I’m writing this the last day of May, I’m assuming that I, in fact, have not died falling off of a mountain in Peru and am successfully back in the United States. I’m also assuming that I have absolutely zero time to blog at this moment,...
