I’ve been playing backstage at the Lyric Opera of Chicago for this season’s production of La Traviata. This is a wonderful gig–a real blast to play. As an added bonus, the offstage part for this specific opera only requires our...
Listening to Garrison Keillor and playing Bioshock. Kind of a weird combination… # Watching Family Guy and trying to wake up. # Heading out for a run. The Chicago weather is around 25-30 degrees today. Saturday it’ll only be 5 degrees for the high! # Doing...
Déjà vu Another great post from CSO bassist Michael Hovnanian: “Sometime before dawn Sunday morning I woke up in a cold sweat. A quick check of my schedule confirmed my fears; we did play the Tchaikovsky 4th symphony last season.” (tags: michael hovnanian...
Have you ever seen a dog with such a horrified expression? From the always entertaining icanhascheezburger.com:
Aaron J. Brown and his colleagues at the Chicago School of Violin Making have begun an exciting new bass construction project that we’ll be documenting here at doublebassblog.org. Aaron is working on producing a copy of Chicago Symphony bassist Dan...
