I am playing a chamber music festival this week and next week in Door County, Wisconsin. The schedule is busy and internet access is extremely limited, so don’t wonder where I went if you don’t hear from me for a day or two. Summer is a time for kicking...
I just did a great interview with Pittsburgh Symphony Principal Bassist Jeff Turner yesterday for Contrabass Conversations. I think that folks will really get a lot of this interview, and I really enjoyed the opportunity to get to sit down wit Jeff and learn his...
Michael Hovnanian just put up a post on his CSO Bass Blog that started with a great joke:The last chair bassist of a major orchestra fancied himself something of an amateur conductor. One day the Maestro fell ill and with no conductor on call the orchestra manager...
Double bassist Brandon Mitchell just left a great comment about my Advice for Aspiring Music Performance Majors post:This a really amazing article. It definitely scared the crap out of me, though! You know what they say (paraphrased) “the best music teachers are...
Note – I wrote this post before checking through my daily blog reads, at which point I found that Matt Wengerd had already blogged this story. Check out his post on this tale from Michael Hovnanian’s CSO Bass Blog.Michael Hovnanian (this coming...
