Bass Blog

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds -the Bhagavad-Gita RAVEL Menuet antique LIEBERSON Neruda Songs INTERMISSION MAHLER Symphony N...

The Ars Viva program had a few unfamiliar works on it – the Diamond and the Schuman, although during the first rehearsal, when we got to the...

The Trout Quintet bass part isn’t the most challenging thing ever written for double bass. The passage I always need to look at is the d min...

The challenges in the Miraculous Mandarin are all rhythmic – there isn’t much passagework to play. This got a smile out of Mr. Boulez on the...

My biggest fear starting this blog was that I wouldn’t have time to keep it up. Last week had a lot of music in it but I was too busy workin...

The Kodály Concerto for Orchestra was the biggest surprise this week. Nobody seemed to know it. Evidently it was written for the CSO and fir...