17. May 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: FBQD

I hate when people call an oboe a flute… It obviously isn’t a flute it doesn’t sound like a pretty bird… It’s sounds like a sexy duck. I think my family is just use to me playing the flute. Watch, when I play flute again they are prolly going to call it an oboe–_–

16. May 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: FBQD

There really needs to be a boy band of oboe players called “The Hautbois”.

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Andris Nelsons has been appointed the 15th Music Director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since its founding in 1881. The announcement was made today by Chairman of the BSO Board of Trustees Ted Kelly, BSO Board of Trustees Vice Chairs Stephen B. Kay and Robert O’Block, and BSO Managing Director Mark Volpe, following a meeting of the orchestra’s Board of Trustees earlier in the day at Symphony Hall. At 34 years old, Andris Nelsons is the youngest music director to lead the Boston Symphony Orchestra in over 100 years; he is also the first Latvian-born conductor to take on the post.

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16. May 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: TQOD

Gets drunk again with friends… tries to teach them how to play the oboe.

The person who posted this has her real name on twitter. She posted a photo of herself.

C’mon people. Be smart. Things you post can really come back to haunt you.

15. May 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: FBQD

Oboe reeds. Ugh. Mahler! Yay!

Too. Darn. Cool.

Oh dear … I had no idea the video played without hitting anything. I hate when things do that. I’ve removed it. So sorry, folks!

If you want to watch it go here: vimeo.com/65000591

15. May 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: TQOD

My oboe is broken. Again.

14. May 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: FBQD

Next goal: learn how to play the oboe. Anyone have an extra oboe lying around the house you’d be willing to lend me for a few months?

14. May 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: TQOD

I love the sound of Oboe. :]

Newly released video on the flowers in our garden with modern Barock style music

I listened. One of the samples was of a harpsichord, so I suppose that’s why the person thinks it’s in the Baroque style. He was wrong. (She states, every-so-humbly. ;-)

13. May 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: FBQD

so im pretty sure my oboe reed is broken. >.< this sucks soo bad because high school UIL is thursday and i dont have any more reeds

An absolute requirement: my students must have at least three working reeds. More is better.

13. May 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: TQOD

felt good playing oboe today..I haven’t played in a lng while now.. remember, practice makes perfect.

Softly and Tenderly, arr. Rene Clausen
Chancel Choir from First United Methodist Church; Dana Effler, conductor

Parry: I Was Glad
Chancel Choir from First United Methodist Church; Dana Effler, conductor

11. May 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: FBQD

Four-mallet technique has officially surpassed oboe on the “painful to learn” scale of musical instruments….