Double bassist, electric bassist, and Shenandoah Conservatory bass professor Donovan Stokes and I just wrapped up an interview this afternoon. Donovan is a very creative bassist and composer who was feature on Episode 13 of the podcast. Expect to hear this interview...
Although I will be taking a real break from the blog for the rest of August (I’ll be back in early September), I have put together two podcast episodes which will be “magically” appearing while I’m gone. One will come out this Sunday morning...
Drew McManus is following the ongoing San Antonio Symphony negotiations in his usual excellent fashion. San Antonio Symphony President and CEO has made several unfortunate recent public statements regarding these negotiations, include references to the musicians and...
While checking in on podcast statistics earlier today, I happened to notice that we’ve now past 32,000 downloads for the Contrabass Conversations podcast. That’s approximately 21,000 hours of consecutive hours of podcasts accessed by people (880 straight...
Bassist Andrew Harmon (of That’s My Cone! fame) sent me links to two extremely useful repositories for freely downloadable scores. The first (which I have used for research purposes before–extremely useful) is the International Music Score Library Project....
