Russell Kahle recently e-mailed me this absolutely stunning performance of and excerpt from Carnaval in Venezia by Giovanni Bottesini. This is how to play the bass! Listen to the sparkle and virtuosity of this performance–really amazing.
OK–I started the double bass archive page I had blogged about yesterday. This is going to be a big and probably never ending task, but I will update it regularly, so feel free to email me or become my MySpace friend so I can get your MySpace URL.Here’s a...
I may regret starting this mammoth project, but I am going to try to provide a listing of double bass pages on MySpace. I have always had a hard time figuring out how to link to these pages. Are they blogs? Sometimes, but usually not.I like it whenever I find a double...
Jacque Harper sent me a link to this recent post from On An Overgrown Path. It is a review of Vivaldi and the Number 3 by Ron Butlin, which sounds like a very interesting book. Check out the post here–it’s a lot of fun, and it looks like a good...
If you want to read about real winter misery, check out my story titled Freelancing + Snow = Pain.We’ve been socked left and right with horrible, miserable weather here in Chicago this month. First we got hit by a massive Arctic bubble of air, plunging...
