Tocatta and Fugue in d minor, BWV 565
Playing name that tune out the window with the oboe player down the hall…
While Symphony Silicon Valley was voted in the top 100 for Chase Community Giving (Thank you voters! Thank you Chase!), we now enter into a tighter race, competing for the $500,000 grant for our arts education program.. Because of that I’m going to remind you daily until the voting stops. PLEASE, if you are on Facebook, vote for us. This is a worthy and worthwhile cause … taking the arts to all 4th through 6th grade students in our county! That’s the goal. I — and all involved with Symphony Silicon Valley — appreciate your votes! Let’s get the larger sum of money for this project!
Wait, what are you doing reading this blog still? You really need to CLICK HERE TO VOTE!
Please bear with me: I will post this particular news every day until the voting period ends.
I certainly know of Nadia Boulanger, but I’d never heard anything by her before.
Does this remind you of a more recent composition? It does me.
But wait! There’s more! I’ve heard of her sister, Lili, as well, but again had never heard anything by her. So you get a double today!
I can do many stupid things on my oboe; imitating bag pipes with circular breathing, japanese ambulance with a doppler effect, fire engines. all useless except in a party. But I just realized that I am getting better with double tonguing!
Music depends on education and inspiration. If you don’t get inspired by this music the first time you hear it, you will never get connected.
-Lang Lang
Thoughts?
I read ithere.
I’m tchg 4 kids for free via skype as an experiment to c if making oboelessons avlble on skype for kids who need tchrs might help. Yes!!!
While Symphony Silicon Valley was voted in the top 100 for Chase Community Giving (Thank you voters! Thank you Chase!), we now enter into a tighter race, competing for the $500,000 grant for our arts education program.. Because of that I’m going to remind you daily until the voting stops. PLEASE, if you are on Facebook, vote for us. This is a worthy and worthwhile cause … taking the arts to all 4th through 6th grade students in our county! That’s the goal. I — and all involved with Symphony Silicon Valley — appreciate your votes! Let’s get the larger sum of money for this project!
Wait, what are you doing reading this blog still? You really need to CLICK HERE TO VOTE!
Please bear with me: I will post this particular news every day until the voting period ends.
“She was a concert violinist with the orchestra. First chair violin. Concertmaster. Second to the conductor himself.” This from the mother. Then she said “I was her manager.”
Um. Right. Because the concertmaster in a Sacramento orchestra would have to have a manager and who better than a mother?
This is all from the TV show The Mentalist, which I recorded and KNEW I’d have to watch since it was about a murder of the concertmaster of an orchestra (The Northern California Symphony Orchestra.)
“She has a very elegant rubato.” Yet another good line!
And yes, the principal oboist looks like a total nerd!
Man. Worst. Episode. Ever. Which is why it’s just so darn good. Or. Um. Not.
“You musicians. Professional obsessives ….”
As the principal oboist is chatting with Patrick Jane the orchestra begins to tune. Hmmm. Problem there maybe?
I love that the clarinetist is sitting next to the oboist, and a bassoonist is randomly seated by a violinist. (I only see one of each of the winds and brass.)
Ah, there is SO much to laugh at in this episode it’s really incredibly entertaining. Loads ‘o fun!
And the murderer? Guess who?
I just did what I wanted. I didn’t live like a prince. To sing the St. Matthew Passion with a great conductor, that’s the bottom line for me. You don’t get rich singing the St. Matthew Passion, you just get happy.
-Sanford Sylvan
Starting the day with a sore throat, head ache, back ache, a crummy rehearsal because of my crummy broken oboe, finding out that it will take about one to two weeks to fix it and having to play on a rental that is most likely going to be made out of plastic. What a great day :/
wanna play Piazzolla’s “Libeltango” on the oboe in woodwind quartet. am wondering whose arrenge are the best. :) so, time to study!
There have been some losses recently, but this one hits much closer to home and hurts my heart greatly.
A dear friend of ours — and the one who actually got Dan and me together — has died. Phil was a great guy. He played bass trombone in the San Jose Symphony and then in Symphony Silicon Valley. He was probably the most cheerful man I’ve ever met. Even when he told me he had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma he was upbeat and positive. When his symptoms got worse he still somehow managed to smile and joke around. I will miss him.
Ah, dear dear Phil. You will be missed. (If I find a large photo I’ll put that up. For now this will have to do.)
My heart goes out to his family. How difficult to lose this man, and far too soon, too.
Symphony Silicon Valley wants to send every elementary school student in Santa Clara County to a professional arts event, and it hopes its Facebook friends can help make that happen.
The program, ArtSpark Silicon Valley, is aimed at kids in third through sixth grade and will launch in the fall. Symphony President Andrew Bales says it already has the backing of several county arts groups and school districts.
Students would be exposed to performances from groups including the San Jose Rep, Opera San Jose and TheatreWorks. The events would be paired with museum visits or other cultural performances.
“The arts have fallen so far behind in our classrooms that only teachers who are pre-inclined to use the arts do so,” Bales said.
The program wouldn’t cost school districts or taxpayers a thing, Bales said. But the funding has to come from somewhere, and that’s where Facebook comes in.
Vote tomorrow, please!
I just read that Bruce Haynes has died via the IDRS forum and Facebook. I have no more information at this point. A sad loss, to be sure.
