… was the 8th grader sad or happy about this? Hmmm.
Woman accused of stealing eighth-grader’s oboe at band concert
An oboe “sting” ended in the recovery of an instrument valued at $6,800 this week.
Sara Elizabeth Hefferon allegedly snatched the oboe after a May 5 concert at Mount Holly Middle School. It belonged to Cory Delehanty, an eighth-grader at the school.
Crazy. I hope her boyfriend dumped her.
I know reviewers can write things that are a bit odd to my “ear” (eye?) but which don’t hit anyone else the same way. So tell me … do these things seem odd to you, or is it just me?:
Lindsey Goodman, principal flutist with the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, was without fault during a recital at St. Marks United Methodist Church Thursday evening.
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The tone of Rosemblum’s “Under the Rainbow” was set by Goodman’s appearance on stage with her bright ruby red slippers.
In this case, the ruby red high-heels.
Goodman huffed and puffed in sequence with the prerecorded material for nearly 20 minutes. Her range of tone on both the soprano and alto flute seemed limitless.
Her technical chops were awesome, but it was her self-ability to play in tune at all times under any circumstances that amazed me.
The alto flute can be a bear to command, but Goodman alternated between it and the soprano flute with nary a sour pitch or tone.
I read it here.
What Do You Have To Do To Join A Symphony And Get Paid To Play An Instrument?
i would like to play the violin & get a salary for it, what do orchestra members amke yearly, do they need degrees, or will they hire you based on talent. thanks for your help.
Such a question, you know? You can go here to read all the answers, and perhaps give your own answer, but here’s the first reply;
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June 24th, 2010 at 10:31 pm
piano teacher says:I dont know how old you are. If you’re still in high school, start working your tail off. My daughter has the same aspiration with her french horn. She actually wants to be an author, but knows you can’t make any money until a book hits the shelves. So, she thinks maybe she could play for an orchestra to make money while she writes books. She’s only in 7th grade, but she is very talented. Her band director says she’s the best french horn player he’s seen come through their school. But talent won’t get her into a symphony orchestra all by itself. She’s going to have to keep her eye on that goal & practice very hard. And she’s starting working herself into that world as early as this year….. by auditioning for the Junior Youth Orchestra in Fort Worth. By high school, hopefully the Youth Orchestra. You might look for something like that in your area to give you some serious experience.
[name here] is having a hard time trying to make any kind of descent oboe reed.
This week some of the wind section of the San Francisco Opera not only dealt with their grueling schedule of performances, but they also listened to the oboe auditions for principal oboe. (How they managed to get any sleep is a mystery to me.) They chose an oboist, and from what I hear we are in for a treat! Here’s the info:
Mingjia Liu, a 22 years old, currently 1st oboe in Kansas City Symphony and Oberlin student, where he studies with Robert Walters & Alex Klein. He also studied with Liang Wang’s uncle in China.
I hear he has incredible chops and (most important to yours truly) plays very expressively.
I do look forward to hearing him!
And wow … 22 years old!
Congratulations to Mingjia Liu!
Sure, it’s International Bassoon Appreciation Day – but Orangutans get an entire *week*
Vincent D’Indy: Chanson for Wind Septet
Aralee Dorough, flute; Erin Hannigan, oboe; Kenneth Grant and Eric Anderson, clarinets; Benjamin Kamins and Kara LaMoure, bassoons; Michelle Baker, horn
To put it rather bluntly, normal people do not compose – or they compose like Carl Czerny or Murzio Clementi. You need a certain amount of openness and non-conformism to be creative. People who are considered mad have not been taught by life to wall up their openness and they have more direct contact to their unconscious.
-Heinz Holliger
You can read that, and a whole lot more, here. It appears Mr. Holliger really loves Schumann.
[name here] is super excited to be getting an oboe tomorrow!! I got out my La Voz reed to see if I remembered how to make a sound of it. It sounded like a duck call and made me happy! :-)
A comment left at my site: “I always like to read what you encreve”
Heh. Um. Thanks. (Spam comment, actually … but creative word there.)
I’m sure getting tons of spam comments these days … sigh.
It’s a double today, since these are connected:
DD is practicing her #oboe. But she hasn’t learned to play it yet. Sounds like an injured animal in heat!
… and a reply …
DS just had his first Oboe lesson last week. I feel your pain. Worth it in the end?
I was married less the two months after I turned 19. Crazy, yes? But read this:
He married at just 16 and his wife, Ana Maria Guerra Cue, gave birth to their son Jose a year later. Aged 17, Placido had a family to support, so he began to work as a jobbing musician. The dizzying range of activities he then undertook helped to set up his lifelong pattern of tireless hard work and multi-tasking wizardry.
Wow.
The bigger news is something Jessica Duchen quotes in her article:
“I’ve been moving on stage all my life and I can still manage long rehearsal periods, so I feel fine in the right repertoire,” he told me. But he went on to say: “I just don’t want to go further than I should. I suppose there’s a certain limit: I don’t want to be 70 and still singing opera. I don’t think I will still be singing on 21 January 2011, which is my 70th birthday.”
Hmmm. I wonder if he still thinks this way, or if he said this after his cancer and now is changing his mind. In any case, I’m hoping he’ll be keeping his appointment on November second of 2010 with San Francisco Opera, because Dan (my husband of 34 1/2 years at this point) and I will be there.
Thanks to Susan over at Perfect PItch (when she’s not in the Met’s opera pit) for filling me in about my previous post. I had no idea that the Palin in the video was the one and only daughter of that gun totin’ tea party lady. Geesh. I’m really AM out of it, aren’t I?!
You can read about it here.
Handy that Palin can cash in on her teen pregnancy like that. It’ll help her pay for raising the kiddo, I guess.
I’m trying to think of something I can do to help fund my life. Hmmm ….
I don’t know the show. Never heard of the actors. But the line … well … had to put it here. (And yes, many of us had those dreams when we were younger.)
“We’re all teen moms–and musicians.”
“Everyone in this program?”
“The program . . . it’s for teen moms.”
“So I didn’t get here on my own?”
“Of course you did. You’re the world’s greatest French horn player, and I’m Yo-Yo Ma.”
Bristol Palin on ‘Secret Life’
Thanks to Elaine for this.
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