I spent the majority of this week playing up around Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. While the concerts were fun and in a beautiful setting, these long drives are slowly killing me, and I see less and less of them in my future. I played the same festival last year right around...
Directing readers to examples of progressive thinking in the orchestra world is one of the goals I have for this blog, including examples of repertoire selection, hiring practices, ideas for audience building, distribution methods (iTunes, podcasting), or any other...
Here’s another example of how blogging is becoming an ever more significant force in our world. Former President Bill Clinton just started a blog. There is only one post so far, but it’s a ‘real’ blog, complete with comments, a sidebar with...
On An Overgrown Path is perhaps the best example of how classical music blogging is moving ahead of traditional journalistic outlets. Bob Shingleton has become one of the leading voices in the world of classical music journalism, and he is a prime example of how the...
Bassist John Floeter has been continuing his series about organizing one’s practicing, putting up a great post earlier this week on his blog about how to really get a quality sound on the bass. This is a subject that I find very interesting, and it is great to...
