Chicago Symphony member and Chicago Chamber Musicians bassist Brad Opland will be appearing on the Contrabass Conversations podcast in the next few weeks. We just did a great interview yesterday afternoon, and this will be going out on the program in early September....
I wrapped up an interview with Scott Rosenthal earlier this week for the Contrabass Conversations podcast. Scott is one of the major players for the Chicago theater scene, having performed in a huge number of productions such as The Producers, Ragtime, Les Miserables,...
Check out this episode from NPR’s From The Top featuring the great Bela Fleck and a young bassist named Mike Thurber. Just visit this page and click the ‘Listen’ button at the top. I love From The Top. To me, it is one of the best examples of how to...
Yesterday I created a Facebook group for the Contrabass Conversations podcast. These groups are an extremely cool way to share ideas, photos, videos, links, and the like with other group members, and if you’ve got anything that you want mentioned on the show...
In her recent post on the Cincinnati.com Classical Music Blog, Janelle Gelfand brought to my attention this recent article from Freep.com, an online component of the Detroit Free Press:After 20 years of labor peace, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra is in a showdown that...