John Grillo and The Princeton Festival

Contrabass Conversations guest and bass blog contributor John Grillo is playing principal bass for The Princeton Festival, a summer music festival that opens this Saturday(6/23/07) with a performance of Bizet’s Carmen. John has mentioned that the singers and...

DoubleBassGuide.com

I blogged about this site last summer, but I was again just spending some time on DoubleBassGuide.com, a great resource for players of the instrument out of Germany. The site is operated by Jonas Lohse, who also maintains a double bass blog. It has articles, a gear...

Strollin’ Down the River

Bass blog contributor Jean-Yves Bénichou sent me this great photo and accompanying story: Some claim that commuting around London is getting to be really difficult and expensive. Not so for my colossal friend John Bakewell! As former Principle Bass of the London’s...

Weekly Bass Blog Wrap-Up

Doing a weekly wrap-up is something that I have been thinking about for a while. I got the idea from Lorelle VanFossen’s blog Lorelle on WordPress, an excellent blog about blogging (of great interest to me–probably not so much for most bass blog readers)....

Guy Tuneh and Mischa Meyer play Rossini Duetto mvt 1 – Allegro

This video features a performance of the Rossini Duetto for Cello and Bass. There is a loud buzz at the opening of the video, but keep watching–the fidelity gets better. Guy Tuneh was a former pupil of Professor B. Sanderling in Berlin, and he currently studies...