While poking around online recently, I found an older article from Indiana University bass professor and Contrabass Conversations guest Lawrence Hurst: The modern double bass is not a true member of either the violin or viol families. Most likely its first general...
Michael Hovnanian’s recent blog post about Haitink (which I posted about yesterday) just got featured on the popular classical music blog On An Overgrown Path. Check it out here.Related Posts:Left hand exercises from Michael HovnanianChicago Bass EnsembleMax...
Singapore bass bloggers PY and Emily are going to be invloved in a bass quartet performance. Deails follow:In Conjunction with Singapore Arts Festival: d’Bassists.Venue: Esplanade Concourse, Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, SingaporeDate: 30 and 31 May 2007 (Wed...
This is a guest post by double bassist Jean-Yves Bénichou. Benjy is bi-national, being a citizen of both the United States and France. He has lived in France for the past 30 years and has been a member of the Strasbourg Philharmonic since 1985. He studied double bass...
I’d like to thank readers for all of the great comments (both via e-mail and through the comments on the blog) about the most recent installment of Road Warrior Without an Expense Account. This information and perspective on the music performance degree...
