is BLOGDAY 2005.
Doesn’t that change your life? It sure does mine. Or not. Anyway, I am supposed to recommend some other blogs. I provide plenty ‘o links to the right on my homepage, and I do hope you visit those sites on occasion. Some are much more interesting than mine. Some write so poetically [...]
I am in the process of setting up a page of oboe repair folks. If any readers would like to add to this list, please, oh please, email me! At this point the list is rather small. (I’ll take corrections too. I’m good that way.)
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The list below has been compiled by searching on oboe repair sites online, and via recommendations from others. I cannot guarantee any work, nor do I recommend one place over another. If a specific naem is given for repair work I’ll supply that name.
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RUFUS ACOSTA WOODWIND AND BRASS WORKSHOP: Repair work by Rufus Acosta
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local: [...]
If you are interested in the opera I’m playing, and even if you can’t afford to go to the opera itself, you could get a little “taste ‘o opera” on September 6. Here’s the info:
The Crucible by Robert Ward
Preview/Lecture (Free)
Tue Sep 6 - noon to 1pm, Wendel Education Center (1st floor) at the San [...]
I’m not the only one who had someone attempt to scam her this week. We all know they happen every day (I don’t even bother to read those ones that say I’m going to be receiving a ton of money from some poor person who is dying). But here’s another scam for those of you [...]
I am going to work today. I am going back to opera. Do you know what this means? Do you?!
It means I’m back! When I’m not playing in a group I feel as if a part of me went missing. I can handle a couple of weeks off just fine, but longer than that and [...]
I received this email yesterday:
GoodDay,
I will like to make an enquiry about your lesson and the cost per hour. Pls
let me know cos i have a son that will be coming on vacation at your state
and i will like him to enrol for the lesson pls get back to me asap.
Jim Willy.
I was [...]
I’m very fond of Sondheim musicals, as many people know. But Sweeney Todd is coming back, and I’m not thrilled with the new show. From what I understand they aren’t hiring a pit orchestra. Instead, the singing actors on stage will also be playing instruments. Um. Hello? Patti Lupone on tuba? Difficult to imagine that [...]
I thought I’d include this tidbit about Maurice Chevalier, which I found on this page at IMDb:
In 1951, the U.S. State Department declared Chevalier “potentially dangerous” to the security of the United States because he had signed a petition against nuclear weapons called the Stockholm Appeal.
I like the guy even more now. (Does [...]
So, here’s what we all already know that refreshed me today: music is a gift, and no matter how “good” you are, you can use your playing to deal with life in a way you cannot do with anything else.
-Maryn Leister (Of flarp. Precise link here.)
Lovely and so true!
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Fascinating:
I decided to make it lyrical, thoroughly stylised: a film in which the whole action of actors, as well as the movement of camera and cutting was rhythmic. Then I got Rodgers and Hart to write the music?. We finished the whole score before I began to work on the script. We did the whole [...]
I’m watching Love Me Tonight and the opening sequence is great fun. It isn’t as lengthy or intricate as Stomp but it’s great fun, and was made in 1932.
Guess I shouldn’t be surprised about this. I just hadn’t thought about this before, and this movie’s been sitting on my shelf for probably a year.
It [...]
There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager.
The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when
the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes,
gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.
-Sir Rudolf Bing (1902-1997) general manager of the Metropolitan [...]
There’s a small article on Opera San José in the the Mercury News today. It’s good to hear that we did well last year. There is one error in the article, though; we did not open last year’s season with Carmen but with Marriage of Figaro. Odd mistake to make.
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There’s a small article on Opera San José in the the Mercury News today. It’s good to hear that we did well last year. There is one error in the article, though; we did not open last year’s season with Carmen but with Marriage of Figaro. Odd mistake to make.
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I don’t go to concerts much. I’ve heard everything. When I do go to movies, I walk out half the time. As for literature, I’ve read everything.
-Ned Rorem, composer
(From a New Yorker article.)
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It was nothing compared with Paris Hilton.
-Ned Rorem, composer, bemoaning his 80th birthday celebration which included concerts of his music around the world.
(From a New Yorker article. Granted, it’s one person’s article and perhaps harsher than truth. I wonder.)
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Hilda, of The Dominican Oboist fame, added her thoughts to the minor key dilemma. I hope you don’t mind, Hilda, but I found your final paragraph so true, and the final sentence lovely so I’m putting it here:
But anyway it does seem that to 95-99% of people minor is sad. But to a few [...]
As many of you know, I’m a fan of Marigaux oboes. I had a Loree years ago, and I never felt that it was “mine” as I feel with a Marigaux.
But Marigaux sure has a couple of bizarre oboes! Their site shows a new oboe that has a top joint ending after the octave [...]
“The slower pieces we choose for the purpose of getting guests quiet and thoughtful. We pick pieces in a major key, not a minor one, so it doesn’t sound like someone died.”
This quote is from an article that is talking about the alternatives to the traditional music many are used to hearing although, to be [...]
I was having a nice little conversation via AIM with someone who reads this site. He was saying that the oboe is the most important instrument in the orchestra and I suggested that I didn’t think that way. He reminded me that I have actually said we are.
So now I’m realizing that not all [...]
So it’s not just at the opera or symphony … theatre goers can be equally annoying (if not more so). this article will fill you in.
I’ve written before about the CAM (Clueless Audience Member) experiences I’ve had. (See this or this or (yes there are more, but some direct you to other sites) this for [...]
Terry Teachout is ill and so now I’m wondering …
Is it possible to catch something over the internet?! Because I think I have what he has.
Heh. Just kidding. Dan (my husband) was ill and I probably caught it from him, unless we both caught it from someone else. (If that’s the case we’d like [...]
… NOT to say I’m anywhere near as talented as this wonderful violist, mind you!
But there’s an article in the Mercury News, by Richard Scheinin, on Geraldine Walther, the principal violist of the San Francisco Symphony from 1976 until … well, until about now. She’s moving on. To the Takács Quartet. I can’t even imagine [...]
I would like to start scheduling UCSC and SCU students’ lessons, but I need your help! Please email me with your Fall schedules so that we can get moving on this.
In other news, and not so very good news at that, I managed to fry the iBook’s hard drive. This means that ALL email [...]
