A couple of years ago a very funny thing happened at the Lyric Opera of Chicago involving orchestra musicians, administrators, and wacky street musician hustlers. I did not witness any of this, but I have heard the same tale from several Lyric musicians, so I hope...
Greg Sarchet (Lyric Opera of Chicago, Northeastern Illinois University, Bass Club Chicago) pointed this list out to me recently. It is a list of all the different names and variants of the Inbindi. The Inbindi is either an acoustic or electric one string bass...
Update: I have a lot of advice for aspiring music performance majors on the Contrabass Conversations podcast, including interviews with major double bass teachers like Paul Ellison, Kurt Muroki, Alex Hanna, David Allen Moore, Bruce Bransby, and many others. Check it...
I love these two shots I took 10 years ago in Hamburg at their Musikhalle. Here is the audience entrance:(That’s Burak in the blue sweater. Read my Burak dancing story here).Here is the stage door for this hall (right next to the audience entrance):I know that a...
I will be performing with the Chicago Philharmonic at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall on the Northwestern University campus this Sunday at 7 p.m. We are playing the Brahms Symphony No. 2 and the Sibelius Violin Concerto. Andreas Deák is the conductor for this program, and...
