John Grillo continues to expand his offerings at ClassicalMusicNews.tv, writing a recent post about the reclusive and enigmatic conductor Carlos Kleiber. Carlos graced the classical music world with some of the greatest recordings of all time, especially his...
We’ve got a few quick news items collected over the past week to start off your week: Exploring Chamber Music with the Chicago Chamber Musicians now live – We recently launched our new collaborative series between Contrabass Conversations and the Chicago...
Here are some stories that have caught my attention this past week. Most of them could use a blog post all their own, but I seem to be spending all my time digging my car out of snowbanks these days, so these links will have to do: Danny Newman: 1919-2007...
It finally happened. I had just wrapped up a great interview with Justin Locke a couple of weeks ago, and I went to click the ‘save’ button on HotRecorder, the program I use to record podcast interviews. Well, HotRecorder wasn’t so hot...
We released a video of the complete Tubin Concerto featuring blog and podcast collaborator Phillip Serna late last week. This, to my knowledge, is the only double bass recording of the Tubin Concerto available online, and Phillip does an excellent job with it. I...
