Comments on: MQOD http://oboeinsight.com/2007/12/23/mqod-321/ reed on! Thu, 18 Mar 2010 18:47:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: patricia http://oboeinsight.com/2007/12/23/mqod-321/comment-page-1/#comment-1935 patricia Tue, 25 Dec 2007 06:10:21 +0000 http://oboeinsight.com/2007/12/23/mqod-321/#comment-1935 Of course then there was a work by Jennifer Higdon that wrote for a note that doesn't exist on an EH! ;-) (She later wrote me to explain that that was supposed to be corrected and just didn't make it into our parts. I found her a very delightful person, and really enjoy her work a lot.) And yes, I'm sure the size of an orchestra at least made thing easier on the oboists ... taking turns on the tutti forté passages can be quite helpful. But, then again, string players often despise us for how little we play already. Uh-oh! Of course then there was a work by Jennifer Higdon that wrote for a note that doesn’t exist on an EH! ;-)

(She later wrote me to explain that that was supposed to be corrected and just didn’t make it into our parts. I found her a very delightful person, and really enjoy her work a lot.)

And yes, I’m sure the size of an orchestra at least made thing easier on the oboists … taking turns on the tutti forté passages can be quite helpful. But, then again, string players often despise us for how little we play already. Uh-oh!

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