Finding Rothko, The IRIS Chamber Orchestra’s latest commissioned work by composer Adam Schoenberg, just won one of the 2007 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. This is exciting news for Adam, and it is more evidence of the high level of musical...
I’d like to give readers a heads up regarding guests for the next few weeks of Contrabass Conversations. I think that people will be very interested both of the guests we have scheduled for the next couple of episodes.This weekend, you will be hearing an interview I...
In early 2004 my new Saturn abruptly caught fire as I was driving home from an orchestra rehearsal. I pulled the flaming carriage over, got my instrument out, and ran away just before it exploded. You can check out that part of the story here. This was, to put it...
Musicians need the input of others in order to develop and hone their craft. Successful performing artists do not live in a vacuum. They constantly seek out the advice of others and incorporate these suggestions into their practicing. The most important source of...
My friend and IRIS Chamber Orchestra pianist Josh Nemith just started a blog for pianists. So far he has a lot of information about local Cincinnati piano resources as well as a post about the New World Symphony. Josh was the New World Symphony pianist for two...
