Lyric Opera of Chicago bassist Greg Sarchet joins his colleagues Andy Anderson and Steve Lester as the double bass faculty of the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University. Greg is a former Contrabass Conversations guest (you can hear him...
Chicago Youth Symphony Teddy Gabrielides recently sent me a link to this video of Matteo Gaspari performing the Dittersdorf Concerto…with a mandolin orchestra! Check it out: Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf (1739-1799) Concerto E-Major (Allegro moderato) for...
Though I’ve never been a member of the New World Symphony (only subbing in the past), I have had dozens of friends and colleagues who’ve spent time in this exciting and educational South Florida orchestra. Serving as the training orchestra for the United...
The February 2008 edition of International Musician, the monthly publication from the American Federation of Musicians, contains a feature on this site and the various satellite projects that I have developed during these past few years of blogging and podcasting,...
Michael Hovnanian on Boulez From Michael: “Boulez also has a charmingly offhand way of dismissing the sort of know-it-all questions from players that tend to crop up when a so-called ‘important’ conductor takes the podium.” (tags: chicago symphony double...
