Rolle from BassFireBlog just left me a comment pointing out these two great sites from Jonas Lohse in Germany. One site is his own blog:http://www.kontrabassblog.de/It is an all-German site. My German is pretty terrible, so reading the posts is slow for me, but it is...
Playing movements of the Bach cello suites is a must for all bass players these days. It is a requirement for many (if not most) orchestral auditions, and it is a bass player’s only real opportunity to play solo works from this great master.Several challenges...
Corky Siegel’s Chamber Blues will be playing this weekend at Oak Park’s beautiful Unity Temple. The Unity Temple was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the early 20th century, and it is really a magnificent building and a great place to hear a concert.The...
I am playing “The Student Prince” for the Music by the Lake festival in Williams Bay, Wisconsin this week. Williams Bay is on the shores of Lake Geneva and is a really beautiful setting for a concert. The concerts take place at Aurora University, which is...
Here is a link to an interesting new story from the Polyphonic.org website. New music is a tricky thing to program. Audiences often want to hear nothing but the “B”s–Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. Without new music, however, there is no forward...
