Stan Haskins (Glued to the String) pointed me to a thought-provoking post from Dr. Jim Horn’s Schools Matter blog titled “I Test, Therefore It Exists”:If you thought that the orgy of tabulation that has infected our society had reached a climax...
We have featured Ranaan Meyer, the bassist for the excellent bluegrass/classical/unclassifiable trio Time for Three, in both audio and video episodes on Contrabass Conversations. You can click here to check them out over on the CBC page. We’ll be putting out the...
I had an opportunity to get together with Eric Steffens, one of my very first double bass students, this weekend. Eric is a senior at the Eastman School of Music, and he just headed over yesteday to Vienna for a semester of double bass study abroad.The photo on the...
My “back to work” schedule this September has afforded me much more writing time, and I’ve been busy as a bee, writing a whole slew of new stories, essays, and articles. Some of these are for publication submission, although everything will...
This weekend we will be featuring an interview with and music from double bassist and composer Donovan Stokes. Donovan teaches bass at Shenandoah Conservatory in Virginia, and he is an extremely active soloist, clinician, and composer. We featured music from Donovan...
