I begin SCU next week, and UCSC the week after. I’ve heard from some new students as well as those of you who studied with me last year, but if there are any more of you out there, please contact me! I need to schedule teaching days, and I have to work around student schedules. [...]
Archive of entries posted on 12th September 2007
The Winner Is (Are) …
Okay … here goes … one thing leads to another … The winner of the San Francisco Opera principal oboe audition is now playing at the opera, so I can safely tell you, even though I still don’t see his name, that the new oboist is Shea Scruggs. I’m really looking forward to hearing him! [...]
Anyone in Peoria?
The Bradley University Music Department will host internationally acclaimed British oboist Gordon Hunt in recital on Wednesday, October 10, at 7:30 p.m. in Dingeldine Music Center, located at 1417 W. Barker Avenue. The program will be an all British program including works by Benjamin Britten, Michael Head, Alan Richardson and Edmund Rubbra. Hunt will be [...]
Names? Anyone?
The following links are to the oboe/EH trio written by John Marvin. If anyone can provide players’ names I’d love to know! I’m wondering if this was done at the latest IDRS convention. Just an idea … maybe a poor guess. (SEE UPDATE BELOW!) Part One Part Two Gee, I’d love to do this work [...]
Review #3
I’m guessing this might be the final review. It’s yet another very positive review, and another fine mention for our principal flutist, Isabelle Chapuis. This time, too, Karen Thielen, our harpist, gets a nice mention. Very often the instrumentalists only get mentioned if we are doing something wrong. I’m so happy to see my friends [...]
MQOD
I am in two. I am in four. I am in everything at once. This is opera! -a conductor for a Pavarotti extravaganza in LA (read here) I love it!
Nice Place
I want to live here. That’s not too much to ask, is it? It just seems conducive to fine music making. (But I probably would rarely—if ever—listen to The Moldau. Not my cuppa.) I’ll bet even my reeds would come along quicker and happier. :-)
I Want One!
Musician Trading Cards. This isn’t a new idea, and when I heard from someone who did this years ago he said it didn’t work at all for their organization. But maybe people are ready for them now; they sound like they are a hit in Houston. I like the idea! As long as I wouldn’t [...]
#2 Review
(And no, I doubt I’ll put every review for every gig of mine up here … but this is, after all, OSJ’s opening!) Joshua Kosman has a review of opening night. San Francisco Chronicle coming all the way to little old San Jose to review the opera? Wow!