Drew McManus is featuring several contributions from bassists this month for the Take a Friend to Orchestra initiative on his blog Adaptistration. I was just featured yesterday, and Bill Harris (from Facilitated Systems) was also featured earlier this month.I’d...
My contribution to the Take a Friend to Orchestra initiative is now posted, so folks can check out today’s post at Adaptistration (the excellent blog that Drew McManus authors) to read my thoughts on how to introduce classical music to a newbie. Drew has been...
Double bassist Ben Rothschild recently sent me some interesting bits of bass and music world news, and I will be doling these out over the next few days. For starters, Northwestern University recently announced that they will be offering full tuition to all incoming...
Here is a video of a 17-year-old student playing the first movement of the Bottesini Concerto for a competition. I like how the camera is carefully hidden from the audience–it makes the space he is playing in look quite bizarre. He admits (in the comments for...
I just got some new listings posted on the Bass Blog For Sale Page, including a new student model bass and some Pirastro strings. If you’re looking for a bass, bow, or other low end gear, check out what is listen. If you’d like to have some gear listed...
