Bass Blog

Out of the several editions of the famous passage for double basses from Verdi's Othello (Act IV), the one most interesting to me is...

an argument against happiness A casual glance at an orchestra in performance usually reveals a group of mostly phlegmatic individu...

Now that I've gone ahead and redacted myself from the  {redacted} SO, I intend to begin blogging again, although the subject matter ...

(the first draft of this post had some unfortunate typos in the examples, hopefully corrected now) Mozart, Don Giovanni Overture and Sym...

European thought, art, and culture is imported by Americans, who consume it like candy.  So it’s not entirely strange that a piece of musi...