I landed at a blog because of the use of “English horn” and here’s what I read:
There’s a section toward the end of the second movement where the piano defers to the cor anglais (fancy for English horn) that, well, if you know of a passage more beautiful, please let me and my planet [...]
No, I don’t drink Ripple or eat tins of Spam. Really. But I suppose my sound can range from the sweetly poignant to that of deflating bagpipes.
See it all right here and you’ll know what I’m writing about. Don’t see it, and you’ll wonder forever.
And who wants to do that?
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I just landed at a blog where the writer stated “I used to play … concert oboe.”
So what does that mean? Do I play concert oboe? Or do I play a different kind of oboe? Maybe I play opera oboe, or symphonic oboe or maybe just mediocre oboe?
Just wondering ….
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I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life; but I have felt it.
-Igor Stravinsky
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