… sadly we only get to hear Mozart on this (although I love Mozart — don’t get me wrong! I was just hoping for the Macmillan).
I’ve heard that the James Macmillan work is incredibly difficult … wonder who will tackle it after Mr. Daniel. And you can bet I’ll keep checking his YouTube Channel to see if he gets to post it there. (Copyright law may not allow for it, though.)
Here’s Mr. Daniel in the second movement of the Mozart Oboe Concerto.
How do you play fireflies by owl city on the oboe?
I know a little amount of people play the oboe I’m trying for a scholarship by playing the oboe.
If you know the notes to it on another instrument that are the same notes as oboe please tell meThank you
I really wonder what kind of scholarship this oboist is hoping for. Or is there some sort of scholarship given out by this group? IS this a group? Or is the group one guy only? Hmmm. Dunno. Guess I’m too old to know. And about that scholarship … maybe I’m just too old to understand that too.
Yep. Sometimes I feel rather old. (And now some readers are thinking to themselves, “Because you are!” while others are thinking, “Nope, not yet, you aren’t!” It’s all about the reader’s (reeder’s) age, yes?! :-)
I’m curious what browsers you all are using to read this blog. I just opened Safari, Firefox and Chrome. It’s interesting to see the differences. Just wondering what everyone out there in the real world uses! No biggie …
There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth — an open-air art, boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.
-Claude Debussy
This is a piece I wrote for french oboe and piano. Hope you enjoy.
There’s a wonderful article on Lorraine Hunt Lieberson in Opera News. Please do read it. If you never heard her live, at least get her recordings. When I hear her voice I am always brought to tears.
I’ve probably posted all of these before. They are worth posting again.
The Oboe over any other instrument!
(If you have a double reed day you want me to post, do let me know!)
KU School of Music presents the ninth annual Double Reed Festival
OCTOBER 30-31
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785.864.9742
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www.music.ku.eduKU School of Music presents the ninth annual Double Reed Festival
The ninth annual KU Double Reed Festival will be held on October 30-31 at the University of Kansas, Swarthout Recital Hall. This event is presented in collaboration with the Midwest Double Reed Society.The officers and executive members of the Double Reed Society include artists Nora Lewis, Susan Maxwell, Rod Ackmann and Celeste Johnson, as well as KU faculty members Margaret Marco and Eric Stomberg. These artists will offer classes, reed clinics and a gala recital of double reed favorites.
The festival is free for MDRS members, $25 for non-members, $15 for student non-members and senior citizens. For a schedule of events or questions contact Margaret Marco, KU associate professor of oboe at mmarco [at] ku [dot] edu, or Eric Stomberg, KU associate professor of bassoon at stomberg@ku.edu, or visit www.mdrs.org .
The 85-year-old founder of Opera of San Jose is recovering at the hospital after being involved in a car accident Friday, the opera’s publicist said today.
Irene Dalis, whose birthday party with nearly 250 guests on Oct. 15 was chronicled in the Mercury News, suffered a broken leg, but is “still feisty as ever,” said Virginia Perry, the opera’s director of marketing and development. “She’s giving out directives and telling people not to send flowers or condolences, but send donations to the opera instead.”
… and isn’t that just like Miss Dalis?! I knew she’d suggest donations! (I even told a friend that very thing.)
I had received this news yesterday, but didn’t feel it appropriate to post it on my blog. Now that it’s in the Mercury News, though, I figure it’s out there for the world to see in any case.
Why does middle C played on an oboe sound different from middle C played on a piano?
I don’t think the questioner was asking about pitch. I think he/she was asking about timbre. The only person who has answered so far is assuming this is an intonation question.
But a middle C on an oboe sounds different than a middle C on flute and both sound different than a middle C on piano. Just as notes all sound different on different instruments and with different voices. My voice is low. When I sing anything above about an A-440 I sound like I’m really reaching. The high F on an oboe sounds … well … high! That same high F sounds like your average flute note. If a tuba could play that high, it would sound incredibly, unbelievably high. It’s about timbre, if you ask me.
tim·bre
[tam-ber, tim-; Fr. tan-bruh]
–noun
1.
Acoustics, Phonetics . the characteristic quality of a sound, independent of pitch and loudness, from which its source or manner of production can be inferred. Timbre depends on the relative strengths of the components of different frequencies, which are determined by resonance.
2.
Music . the characteristic quality of sound produced by a particular instrument or voice; tone color.
Or is it? Thoughts?
Any of you adventurous sorts want to go to answer the original question?
I love hearing oboe when I find it outside of my little classical world. So I think I’ll share things when I find ‘em. I’ll tag ‘em “Oboe Outside” just because I can come up with nothing clever at the moment.
I thought this was very sweet:
All parts composed & performed by Kristin Sedivec
Music & lyrics copyright of Kristin Sedivec, 2005
I’m going to guess I won’t find much out there in videoland. If any of you have videos to share, do let me know!
why did my sister pick the Oboe of all instruments
I haven’t played this work in an awfully long time, but I know i’ve done it three times in the past. It’s one of those solos I love to play! Some solos just sit so darn well with the English horn that, as long as a good reed is at hand, I don’t really get nervous. I just enjoy. This is one of those.
I’ve not seen a guitar played this way before … have you?
Here’s another of just the guitarist:
A new first for me–had to hold curtain 7 minutes until the Giants finally won because the whole audience was watching the score on their cell phones. LOL But what a night–Giants in the World Series and Frank Sinatra Junior on my stage! :-)
-Randy Bobst-Mckay
Somebody is playing the oboe. Nice it is.
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