links for 2008-01-18

Library of Congress Blog » My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven (Library of Congress) Library of Congress now offering non-copyrighted pictures through….Flickr! Cool! (tags: access archive archives blogging blogs books digital flickr folksonomy free...

Orchestra Segmentation Survey with John Grillo

Double bassist and blogger John Grillo recently weighed in on his blog classicalmusicnews.tv about a study (commissioned by the Knight Foundation) published several years ago analyzing how Americans relate to their local orchestras and classical music in...

Concert Programming, Idiot-Style

I can’t program concerts to save my life.  At least, I’m sure my students feel that way! One thing I’ve tried to do as a bass teacher, with varying degrees of success, is to have an annual recital for my students.  This is something that is...

Searching for the Hertl Sonata

Double bassist Christopher Rose is on a search for the Hertl Sonata for double bass and piano. This piece has proven to be quite difficult to track down. Christopher writes: Hi all. I’m trying to track down the music for the Hertl Sonata for a recital I’m...