This is a great video of Monti’s Czardas by double bassist Roman Patkolo (with Jan Jirmasek accompanying on bass) and Maxim Vengerov on violin. Guanaco from the Cellomania blog recently sent me a link to this post.Digging through my archives, I realized that I...
Gmail has now been officially opened to the public worldwide. If you haven’t gotten a Gmail account yet, you should definitely sign up for one. I pay Yahoo! Mail $20 a year for fewer features than Gmail gives you for free. Gmail is now available in the following...
Former Chicago Symphony Orchestra principal percussionist was featured in a recent New York Times article. Double bassist John Grillo let me know about this article, which is definitely worth a read.I played with Ted in the American Russian Youth Orchestra (see my...
Are you in the mood for some rip-roaring, top-notch bass playing? Then check out this video of double bassist Alper Mufettisoglu playing an extremely virtuosic rendition of Gliere’s Tarantella, the fourth in his series of pieces for the double bass.
This is the fourth installment of my Road Warrior without an Expense Account series. The intent of this installment is to highlight the increased competition for the progressively decreasing full-time orchestral positions. The statistics I present here are only...
