Here are a few short bits from some of my favorite music blogs. You can always visit my link blog to see all the stories (both music and non-music related) that I’ve been checking out: Blogs – the new wisdom of crowds? – On An Overgrown Path blogger...
Here’s a video of Gary Karr describing the history of the ‘Amati’ double bass. Gary talks about the origins of this bass (further research of the instrument has shown that it was not likely to have been made by the Amati brothers) and how it came to...
“Publish my stuff? Online? What…..do you mean my writing?” “You’ve got to be kidding me!” “It’s just………..not…..good enough yet!” If there’s one thing I’ve learned over the past...
The following is a guest post from Double Bass Blog contributor Phillip W. Serna. Check out Phillip’s recitals and interviews on his Contrabass Conversations page, and visit him online at http://www.phillipwserna.com/. Enjoy!__________________Contrabass...
Phoenix Symphony and Grant Park Symphony bassist Jonathan Imsande outlined a really outstanding project idea to me this summer, and I’ve spent the last several weeks pondering exactly how this sort of thing would work. I know that is has enormous...
