… but not really “pretty”. If you know what I mean.
Now when they get a computer to make a good oboe reed I’ll be mightily impressed.
Of course if they got a computer to play an oboe I’d be somewhat impressed as well. ;-)
If I were to get enough people to visit a lighting shop called Lighting at Willow Glen I could win money toward lighting. (Think they’d throw in a table too? I found what I want. Now I just need to rob a bank!)
We have this ugly light —I suppose I have to call it a [...]
I had to wear trousers, learn to tie a bow tie, and pin my hair up so short that it looked as if I didn’t’t have any hair…..but the orchestra did not have an oboist and I was their only hope at the time……which lasted for years! As a matter of fact, on the [...]
If Kimberly Preiss has her way, she’ll never have to work a day in her life.
“I never want to have a job,” said the 18-year-old Niceville resident.
Although the budding oboist spends countless hours practicing and cultivating her craft, Preiss doesn’t consider playing music a job.
Well, yes. Ms. Preiss isn’t the only one who doesn’t think [...]
I have been a subscriber to the National Symphony Orchestra for more than 10 years, and I’ve been going to many other performances at the Kennedy Center ever since coming to Washington 44 years ago. But I am not going to renew our NSO subscription this year.
So what would cause you to stop attending [...]
I was rather skeptical, but I do like this arrangement. Sounds like a challenge, though.
Maybe I’ll comment later … I have to teach soon so I can’t now. Or maybe I’ll just leave it here (more likely).
TTYL!
“If you have a deceptive cadence be sure to raise your eyebrows. Then everybody will know.”
A personal peeve is the ridiculously high horn writing in almost all of the finalists’ scores. But who is to blame them? A computerized horn can hit a hundred high Cs over the course of ten minutes without blinking. But I definitely wouldn’t want to be in the room when the fourth horn player in [...]
The music lowered the patients’ blood pressure and heart and respiratory rates before any sedation or pain medication, according to a paper in the Medscape Journal of Medicine, a Web resource for physicians of peer-reviewed medical journal articles.
Dr. Jorge Camara, a classically trained pianist and ophthalmologist, played music for patients before surgery as part of [...]
The symphony orchestra in the 21st century has become something of a dinosaur, and dinosaurs cannot be saved from extinction by external intervention. Orchestras are extremely expensive to maintain, and the present-day public is simply not going to support them monetarily.
I believe that the solution for both audience and musicians lies in, horrid as the [...]
No, there aren’t any professional musicians in my family. My mother had me take piano lessons, and I’m very glad she did, but at the time it wasn’t exciting, practicing and all that. It’s a funny story about how I got started with oboe. In junior high my older brother was in band, and I [...]
Unless the “unknown” folks are sometimes from mainland China, I have never had a visitor from that rather large plot of land. (Check out my referrals page if you don’t know what I’m talking about.)
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Earlier this morning Bill Jobert sent me the following:
Wright State University welcomes our newest music faculty member Katherine L. deGruchy who will serve as the adjunct professor of oboe, perform with the faculty woodwind quintet and the University Chamber Orchestra. Her performance background includes 17 years in the Mexico City Philharmonic. She [...]
(If you have issues with “language” please don’t listen. There. You’ve been warned.)
The chamber music insurgents with an urgence to earn it,
We’re steppin’ forth in new directions cuttin’ beats like a surgeon.
With the sound causin’ all these flat composers to flee,
it’s the Mobtown Modern and HGP.
Knockin’ ivory towers down, bringin’ it straight to the hood,
it’s [...]
In the interest of full disclosure, I should note that I attended on complementary tickets provided by the festival. I usually don’t do this and frankly this was my first experience acccepting press passes for something I saw for OutWestArts. I did it in part because the evening included a “blogger’s night” reception meant to [...]
