My eyes are red and bleary from checking out hundreds (maybe even thousands) of double bass MySpace pages. Boy, are there a lot of us out there! If you’re interested in being added to the MySpace Archive here, just add me as a friend –...
I’d like to see what people are into checking out on the blog these days. I’ve done these polls in the past, but it has been a while since the last one, so let me know what is of value to you here. You can vote for as many choices as you want.What Bass...
At the urging of double bassist John Grillo, I recently took the Meyers-Briggs Personality Test. If you haven’t ever taken this test, check it out here–it is quick, and the results are interesting. You can read more about the test at this Wikipedia page.I...
Double bassist Kathryn Nettleman recently left a great comment on my Advice for Aspiring Music Performance Majors post. Kate has been a member of a full-time orchestra (The Naples Philharmonic), a member of the New World Symphony, and has performed with countless...
I wrote a post in the fall of 2006 highlighting the rehearsal process of the famous ‘Trout’ Quintet documentary from 1969 featuring Daniel Barenboim on piano, Itzhak Perlman on violin, Pinchas Zuckerman on viola, Jacqueline du Pré on cello, and Zubin Mehta...
