Michael Hovnanian of the Chicago Symphony recently started a bass blog. Michael was my teacher at Northwestern University for my undergraduate and graduate degrees, and it is really great to see him start a blog! I just added his blog to my Blogroll in the sidebar of...
I am playing Gian Carlo Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors this week in downtown Chicago at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts. The orchestra for this piece is quite small, and I have never played it before. Once I got a recording of it and listened to it, I...
Chicago’s Grant Park Orchestra is holding a benefit concert for a violinist with cancer. The press announcement states:Chicago’s Grant Park Orchestra to Give Benefit for Cancer-StrickenViolinist Without Health Insurance By Vivien Schweitzer 04 Nov...
Update: I have a lot of advice for aspiring music performance majors on the Contrabass Conversations podcast, including interviews with major double bass teachers like Paul Ellison, Kurt Muroki, Alex Hanna, David Allen Moore, Bruce Bransby, and many others. Check it...
My good friend Jeff Yang sent this announcement to me recently regarding a benefit for Chicago’s venerable Jazz Showcase. I wrote a post a few weeks ago about this topic that you can read here.The announcement reads: Many of you may have heard the Jazz Showcase...
