The oboe is not an instrument that’s always the same when you pick it up like a violin or a flute. Every day it’s different.
-Alex Klein
oboe .. such a beautiful instrument
Dallas police are calling for the public’s help identifying a pair of thieves with classical music taste.
Ok, so they might not dig classical music, but evidently they see the benefits of some instruments that create classical music.
Police issued a surveillance video of the boys at work at the Brook Mays Music Co. location along John Carpenter Freeway. The heist, according to police, occurred at 5 a.m., June 7.
The video shows one guy smashing the bottom half of a glass door — smart fellow because it would have been way more difficult had he smashed the top half — and both guys scurrying in and out with their ill-gotten gains.
The video below shows the theft and then shows them attempting to pawn the instruments. Geesh!
Closer to home … Joshua Lauretig is from the Cleveland area and I believe he’s 16 years old. I’ve never heard of the work or composer before, so this is also a “New To My Ears” work.
Josh Lauretig, oboe
Elizabeth DeMio, piano
The Bandmaster (1931) – Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
Sure don’t see bizarre cartoons like this these days!
… I was talking to Jameson about some of the oldies I find on YouTube; I find some that I just can’t put up; the racism is just too much for me.
Stupid oboe deserves to be blamed!
Dear Edna:
In terms of advancing a career as an orchestral musician, is it better to take a job of leadership in a lesser orchestra or to take a position as a section player in a better orchestra? -grateful for your guidanceDear Edna:
If you are in a full-time orchestra and want to audition for another orchestra, should you take the entire week off? If other members of the orchestra find out, could it affect your chances of getting tenure?-Kathy P.
You can read the answers (<—click on that!) to those questions at the Musical America site. If you go here you’ll se more “Ask Edna” entries.
The video info box tells us this:
oboe : HyunJung(Amy) Song
2011-28-may Kumho Prodigy concert. Seoul,South Korea
She is 13 years old who live in Seoul.
She studies oboe in Yewon middle school in Seoul.
This is her first solo recital.
Please enjoy it!
Handel:
I’ve had a number of students, from high school through university level play the Saint Saëns. Whenever I ask them to keep the book closed and play the beginning of each movement by memory (my way of checking to see if they even have a clue what the first note is, for one thing) they act as if I’m insane. Hah!
Saint Saëns:
… and let’s change our outfit, shall we? ;-)
Poulenc:
Pasculli:
This young player is so musical … wow. Just … wow!
Thanks to Robin Tropper for bringing this to my attention.
I’m so excited…after over 6 years without playing in a musical ensemble and over a year and a half without having an outlet to play at all, I will be once again playing my oboe (and maybe the English horn?) in the [name here] Band!
Caterina Lichtenberg and Mike Marshall – Bach Gig in Dminor
NPR, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, all those kind of frivolous things that government shouldn’t be in the business of funding with tax dollars — those should all be on the chopping block as we talk about the $14-trillion debt that we’re going to hand to our kids and our grandkids,” Palin told right-wing host Sean Hannity. “Yes, those are the type of things that for more than one reason need to be cut.”
You know how I wrote about changing things up and not posting all my daily things here? I haven’t been able to stop.
Yes. I’m that crazy.
It would be like … I dunno … not brushing my teeth … not getting out of my hot pink robe before I teach … not making my bed … all these things (and more) I must do to be a good citizen of this dusty planet. Or something. Go figure.
Maybe next week I’ll find the strength to let things go. Or maybe it’ll be when I run OUT of YouTube videos that fit the categories.
Time will tell.
urg oboe is so expensive D:
…my older sister…studied…for a very short time and found out that you have to make reeds, and she thought, “That was a loser.” …she’s much smarter than me, and she suggested that maybe I should go to the next lesson. So, she gave me her instrument, her reed tools, and everything and sent me off, and I kind of liked the idea of having these knives
-William Bennett, principal oboist of San Francisco Symphony
(The last time I wrote about Bill someone wrote to tell me I was so wrong — that William Bennett was a flutist. So before that happens again let me assure you this is the oboist. There is a flutist with the same name, though.)
… or maybe not. There is no mention of the maker. You can see it here.
This is just a gentle reminder: If you are purchasing an instrument, the seller should give you a trial period. I always tell my students and parents to consult with me when purchasing an instrument. The one time a parent didn’t heed that advice a very bad oboe was purchased when they were visiting China. Yes, it was lower in price, but who cares? It really was a horrendous instrument. So be cautious. Pretty please?!
Now the instrument above could be a fantastic instrument. Or it could be awful. I’m not recommending it. I’m not NOT recommending it. Not publicly on my blog, anyway. Yes, I’m just that careful about what I write here.
But feel free to email me if you want to kNOw what I think about whether you should buy it or NOT. ;-)
