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Archive of entries posted on 14th January 2007

I Was Going To Go

… but I totally forgot about the concert until just now. And I’m beat. Entirely fried, really. I haven’t even got a good excuse, but there you go. I did check to see if I could still get artopolis prices, and I can’t, so that nixed the whole thing. With my income a bit on [...]

Russ DeLuna

You can Meet Russ DeLuna, (or is it deLuna? this article suggests that. Mr. deLuna wrote to me with his great news, but I guess I’ve lost the email. Sigh.) the new English hornist of the San Francisco Symphony. He has yet to arrive in San Francisco, from what I understand, but he won the [...]

Low Thoughts

More difficult case are the low notes of oboe and bassoon. Not many players can play them ppp as marked. Second oboists are afraid among other things of Dvorak cello concerto second movement. It can be played by the way by English Horn. Quote found here. I noticed that my copy (from the Orchestral Musician’s [...]