Here’s a very cool segmented sculpture of the world’s noblest instrument. The photographer writes: All 12 sections of the Double Bass come apart and this enables the sculpture to be placed in any position. Each section also has a stencil by C215. Any...
CEMC/ SoG – Roland de Lassus (1532-1594) – Bon jour, mon coeur FFrom the May 18, 2008 Chicago Early Music Consort & Spirit of Gambo – a Chicago Consort of Viols Performance of ‘Bonjour, Mon Coer! – The Sublime 16th-Century French...
I just stumbled across this great video showing the current New World Symphony bass section playing an excerpt from the first movement of Brahms’ Symphony No. 1. Cool! If you want to hear interviews with several former New World Symphony bassists (including my...
Here’s a vintage recording of Gary Karr performing Paganini’s Moses Fantasy–a staple of his performing career. I know that Gary’s recording inspired me to learn this piece when I was in high school, and I’m sure that he did the same for...
New York Times tech journalist David Pogue is a recent Twitter fan, with several reservations: I’ll admit that, for the longest time, I was exasperated by the Twitter hype. Like the world needs ANOTHER ego-massaging, social-networking time drain? Between e-mail...
