In her recent post on the Cincinnati.com Classical Music Blog, Janelle Gelfand brought to my attention this recent article from Freep.com, an online component of the Detroit Free Press:After 20 years of labor peace, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra is in a showdown that...
The double bass airline experiences survey is still open, so please take a moment and fill this out if you haven’t done so yet. We’ll be compiling this data and making it viewable to readers in the next few weeks.Part of the survey includes an area to...
Greg Sarchet (Bass Club Chicago, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Northeastern Illinois University) for several years has handed the following list of recommended texts out to his incoming double bass students. These books touch on all sorts of issues relating to musicians and...
The Jason Seed Elixir Ensemble, the group that we featured on the blog yesterday, will be performing on September 6 at the Elbo Room in Chicago, Illinois. They go on at 11 p.m., so if you’re in the area (and many readers are), check this excellent group...
Chicago Symphony bassist Dan Armstrong recently shared some musical experiences he’s been having with the Jason Seed Elixir Ensemble, a Milwaukee-based group with which he has been doing some playing. He writes:In addition to my CSO job, I’ve been playing...
