I spent the majority of this week playing up around Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. While the concerts were fun and in a beautiful setting, these long drives are slowly killing me, and I see less and less of them in my future. I played the same festival last year right around...
Directing readers to examples of progressive thinking in the orchestra world is one of the goals I have for this blog, including examples of repertoire selection, hiring practices, ideas for audience building, distribution methods (iTunes, podcasting), or any other...
Here’s another example of how blogging is becoming an ever more significant force in our world. Former President Bill Clinton just started a blog. There is only one post so far, but it’s a ‘real’ blog, complete with comments, a sidebar with...
Bassist John Floeter has been continuing his series about organizing one’s practicing, putting up a great post earlier this week on his blog about how to really get a quality sound on the bass. This is a subject that I find very interesting, and it is great to...
I’m putting up a new poll on the blog each week–it’s located in the sidebar just below the Contrabass Conversations and Twitter widgets. You can vote for more than one option on these polls, and they actually help me to know who’s reading and...
