Bass Blog

“ Well, I'm back .” – Sam Gamgee       Sorry for the lengthy hiatus. For some of the time, I have a good excuse for not post...

  A pattern seems to be evolving at Ravinia; begin the truncated summer session with a week of Christoph von Dohnányi and end with a w...

The Rivers Festival came to an end on June 9 th , although the onstage activities seemed to take a week off for a Haydn/Martinu/Scriabin pr...

Rivers Festival, May 9 – June 9     After two weeks of the Rivers Festival, it is hard to determine if we are headed up or down strea...

My vacation took me far away from the first couple weeks of the latest installment of music director mania. The third week had some unde...