There’s something about the way that Gary Karr tackles a phrase, that combination of vibrato, confident shifting, and close to the bridge rich tone quality that no other bass player quite hits on the head. Are there faster, cleaner, and showier players out...
One of my bass students at DePaul is playing Tristan Murail’s “L’Esprit des Dunes” this quarter, and in a quest to give him some advice on tackling this gnarly (but very cool) bass part, I went searching on YouTube for a recording. It’s...
I’ve seen this before (you probably have too), but I always get a kick out of seeing what a good job this little guy is doing air conducting Beethoven. He’s better than a lot of adult conductor’s I’ve worked with! Not sure about his rehearsal...
Anyone out there have any string events in the state of Illinois that they’d like to have publicized? If so, email them to me at jason.heath@d128.org and I’ll get them up on the site.
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.
