I had the good fortune to be the guest speaker for the January 2009 meeting of the Chicago Chapter of the ACM, which was a great experience (I’ll try to put out a screencast of this event in the near future). If you can make it, you’d really get a lot out...
This is an important issue that is hitting orchestra & music programs across the country.on April 15th, the New York Times did an excellent video piece on a school orchestra program in Newark, Ohio that is struggling to stay alive. It is a compelling story of how...
The fabulous bassist Edgar Meyer will be in Chicago for an event-packed weekend of bass festivities later this month. If you’re in the greater Chicago area or can swing a trip up to the Windy City, this would be a great opportunity to check out one of the...
Merlin Mann is one of my favorite tech personalities–he’s incredibly funny and exactly what I think of when I envision a creative individual. Here’s his chat (around 27 minutes) from the 2009 Macworld Pulse event on creative processes:
Here’s another popular interview from the Contrabass Conversations archives: Interview: Jeff Bradetich Proclaimed by the New York Times as “the master of his instrument,” Jeff Bradetich is regarded as one of the leading performers and teachers of the double bass...
