I hope that you all enjoyed this week’s Contrabass Conversations episode featuring an interview with Scott Rosenthal, a pit musician veteran here in Chicago’s musical theater scene, as well as some Bottesini from the always excellent Stefano Sciascia. If...
Double bassist Tyler Bakken sent me a link to this story about the Houston Symphony’s newest PR idea–trading cards! Kurt Johnson, the violinist mentioned in the following quote, is an old acquaintance of mine. We both attended Northwestern University and...
I hope that folks enjoyed our interview with Eric Hochberg that was released yesterday. This special mid-week episode featured the conclusion of our interview from earlier this year plus some music from Eric. These shorter mid-week episodes will come out from time to...
Although I am a daily Chicago Tribune reader, this short article escaped my notice. Double bassist Jerry Fuller brought it to my attention, and I’m glad he did, because it really highlights the priorities a donor may have in choosing an organization for their...
Readers may have missed this post (the steady flow of new posts makes it hard to catch everything on the blog here) last week containing my musings on why so many bassists blog. Although there are players of every instrument who blog these days, I think it’s...
