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While recording this week’s Contrabass Conversations episode featuring Michael Hovnanian, I inadvertently fumbled the Gunnelpumpers and Chicago Bass Ensemble introductions, somehow mixing the two together. To clarify, the track that I played on the show was ‘Floobah...
….then check out this video about the state of the festival. It’s kind of like an infomercial for Aspen (it reminds me of the Troy McClure videos from The Simpsons), but it gives you a good idea of what goes on at Aspen, and it may just pump you up for the...
While poking around online looking for biographical information about Michael Hovnanian for our Contrabass Conversations interview, I stumbled upon one of the most bizarre blogs I have ever seen. The title of the blog is:Michael Hovnanian’s Fingerings are...
National Symphony Orchestra Principal Bassist Robert Oppelt just put up a new post on his website covering his approach to the bass solo from the third movement of Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 in D Major. Here is an excerpt discussing his fingering approach for the...
