Michael Cameron and Larry Gray (University of Illinois bass faculty) will be performing a master class and workshop in the Libertyville, Illinois area on Monday, October 22nd, around 10 a.m. If you’re in the metro Chicago area, come and check it...
This topic was actually the very first personal narrative ever attempted here on the blog, a little less than a year ago. While I still enjoy this previous post (with pictures of the described drive), the topic of all-night commuting is such a painfully bizarre one...
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...
We’ll be finishing up our interview with Michael Hovnanian on this week’s Contrabass Conversations episode and get a chance to hear some of his double bass playing. If you’d like to catch up with his previous interview segments, you can visit his...
This is our next installment of Lyric Opera of Chicago and Grant Park Symphony bassist Andy Anderson’s Virtual Lesson series. This episode covers developing articulation in the bow. You can view all the released episodes of this series (as well as all of our...
