One of the biggest challenges for a blogger is making useful older content easy to access without becoming an annoying self-promotion machine. I am always struggling with this, and I’ll probably do highlight posts like this every once in a while. ...
Memphis Symphony principal bassist Scott Best (who will be a guest on Contrabass Conversations in the coming weeks) recently pointed me to this great video from University of Iowa bass professor Volkan Orhon performing the Concerto for Bass Viol and Orchestra by John...
I love these sort of posts from Michael Hovnanian. Funny, quirky, and irreverent, Michael really does an excellent job of blogging about life as a bassist in a major symphony orchestra. You can here Michael’s three-part Contrabass Conversations interview on...
Rob Kassinger (Chicago Symphony Orchestra bassist DePaul University faculty member) will be performing the Bottesini Concerto in b minor with the DePaul Chamber Orchestra this November. If you are able to make it, definitely check out this performance–it...
This is our next installment of Lyric Opera of Chicago and Grant Park Symphony bassist Andy Anderson’s Virtual Lesson series. This episode delves into the topic of spiccato–a topic that we’ll be exploring in depth in the following few episodes of...
