I just read this:
Jones might be playing his audience as one would play an oboe. A dumb, truck-driving oboe.
Hmmm. Okay then.
I just read this:
Rob Verdi shows off a saxophone that was developed to look and sound like an oboe in the 1920s when the saxophone was so popular that school band leaders couldn’t get students to take up other instruments.
So go here and see the photo of the instrument (I can’t post it here … that would be stealing.)
Some reviews crack me up. Maybe It’s just me, though. I wonder!
For instance …
With a sweat-soaked sport shirt clinging to his back and shoulders, Carlos Miguel Prieto appears to be dancing in front of his orchestra. His arms undulate overhead, matching the snake-charming sounds of the oboe. A hip shake cues the trumpets. Coaxing fingers draw a syrupy sound from the violins — and when he stamps and growls, the 100-strong orchestra seems to growl, too, building to a musical climax.
Okay … anyone else crack up?
I read it here.
[name here] is on the search for the PERFECT oboe reed!
We aren’t doing Rite this week … it’s Petrushka for Symphony Silicon Valley … but I wish I owned this shirt — I’d wear it to work. (Well, maybe. These days I rarely wear t-shirts.)
You can purchase yours here.
Hoping to brush off cobwebs in my head from playing oboe in 7th grade. I know music notes are hiding in there somewhere
News Release
Opera San José Celebrates National Opera WeekSAN JOSE, CA— Opera San José joins dozens of other opera organizations nationwide to celebrate National Opera Week (October 28 – November 6), coordinated by OPERA America, the national service organization for opera, with support of the National Endowment for the Arts. As part of the week-long celebration, Opera San José will present two free public performances at the
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library in downtown San José and partner with the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority to encourage patrons to ride the VTA to the opera.On Tuesday, November 1 at 12 noon, the company will present a preview of two one-act operas,
Leoncavallo’s emotional tour de force, Pagliacci, and Poulenc’s monodrama, La voix humaine. The program will include a selection of arias and duets performed by members of the cast, followed by a panel discussion with members of the creative team, moderated by Opera San José’s general manager Larry Hancock.On Friday, November 4 at 4 pm, children of all ages are invited to a performance of a one-act touring opera based on Engelbert Humperdinck’s classic, Hansel and Gretel. Performed in English by Opera San José’s singers, Hansel and Gretel provides children with a positive experience of an art form that may be new to them, offering a fantastic introduction to opera and theatrical storytelling through music and voice.
Both events will be held on the 2nd floor of the library in room 225/229, located at 150 East San Fernando Street at 4th Street in downtown San José. No reservations are required.
Opera San José will extend the celebration through the month of November by partnering with the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority to encourage patrons to take public transit to the California Theatre for performances of the company’s double-bill of Pagliacci and La voix humaine, November 12-27. VTA monthly pass holders can save 20% on tickets to any performance of Pagliacci and La voix humaine by presenting a valid monthly fare pass at time of purchase.
For more information on Opera San José visit www.operasj.org. For more information on National Opera Week visit www.operaamerica.org/operaweek. For VTA fares and schedules visit www.vta.org.
About Opera San José
Opera San José, performing at the historic California Theatre in downtown San José, is a professional, regional opera company that is unique in the United States. Maintaining a resident company of principal artists, Opera San José specializes in showcasing the finest young professional singers in the nation. In addition to mainstage performances, Opera San José maintains extensive
educational programs in schools and in the community at large, and offers Preview lectures and Introduction to Opera talks for all mainstage productions.
Riccardo Muti accepting the Birgit Nilsson Prize
“Music is extremely important. Education in music is essential.”
“What is important is to teach young boys and girls in a modern society that an orchestra, a symphonic orchestra, a chorus, is a symbol of a society — how a society should work and stay together.”
… and every player knows that his freedom must exist but should not stop or damage the freedom of the other player, but all the players together in their freedom and expressing their feelings they all must work in one direction that is harmony.
Oh heck, just listen!
Music makes more gentle the heart.
I can’t tell you much about this, but I could at least translate the YouTube note to know that this is a Hungarian Baptist church.
Liszt: O salutaris hostia
La Caffettiera Stioppeta, directed by Eszter Murányi
O salutaris Hostia,
Quae caeli pandis ostium:
Bella premunt hostilia,
Da robur, fer auxilium.
[Uni trinoque Domino
Sit sempiterna gloria,
Qui vitam sine termino
Nobis donet in patria.]
Amen.
O saving Victim, opening wide
The gate of Heaven to us below;
Our foes press hard on every side;
Your aid supply; Your strength bestow.
[To your great name be endless praise,
Immortal Godhead, One in Three.
O grant us endless length of days,
In our true native land with thee.]
Amen.
Leaning On The Everlasting Arms
Fei on Guitar
Mikalojus Konstantinas Ciurlionis: Kyrie
Bel Canto Vilnius
(I don’t see any mention who is playing piano.)
Marcello Oboe Concerto, Adagio
Eugene Izotov, oboe
“A Celebration of the Life of Ralph Gomberg”
February 4, 2007
Brown Hall, New England Conservatory
Here’s the teaser …
This is put together by Hyundai … something called RE:GENERATION … and that’s about all I know. Below is a video that I guess explains it. Sort of.
Just practiced for 2 and a half hours between piano and oboe….a normal occurrence in the life of a music major.
