12. November 2011 · Comments Off · Categories: Saturday Morning Cartoon

A Car-Tune Portrait (1938)

12. November 2011 · Comments Off · Categories: TQOD

goodbye solo in william tell because of no english horn :( if only my roommate, who plays english horn, would join orchestra…

11. November 2011 · Comments Off · Categories: Announcements, Auditions

(Have warm clothes at the ready!)

The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
Edo de Waart, Music Director
Announces an invitation-only audition for the following position:

PRINCIPAL OBOE
Audition to be held on January 30, 2012.
Highly qualified candidates should email a one-page resume to Rip Pretat at auditions@mso.org by December 12, 2011.

Employment to begin September, 2012 or earlier date based upon the MSO’s schedule and the winning candidate’s availability. Minimum Principal scale for the 2012-2013 season is $76,200.

The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

I read it here.

11. November 2011 · Comments Off · Categories: FBQD

Entertaining the idea of eventually learning to play every symphonic instrument except maybe the oboe or the clarinet or the bassoon or anything lame like the flute, or the euphonium. actually, euphoniums are cool, not as cool as euphoniumists though..

11. November 2011 · Comments Off · Categories: BachTrac™

BWV 972 after Vivaldi Violin Concerto RV 230
German Brass (this is arranged by their first trumpet player)

11. November 2011 · Comments Off · Categories: TQOD

ice pack on the shoulder…i fear this to be a nightly ritual >_< thanksoboe

10. November 2011 · Comments Off · Categories: Concert Announcements

I just received this from a reader … hope some of you can attend!

The Sunday concert will be free and for the students the ticket prices are $5 on Saturday. Also, on Sunday they will do “Instrument Petting Zoo” during the intermission, where musicians will take their instruments and talk about them to the audience members.

(And Daniel, have a wonderful concert!)

10. November 2011 · Comments Off · Categories: NewToMyEars™

Josef Myslivecek (1737-1781) is not a name I recognized when I ran into this video. What a surprise to read about him. I’ve read several books about Mozart, but somehow this name didn’t catch my attention, or wasn’t even mentioned. I’ll have to go back and look at them again and see.

Here’s a part of his opera Antigona:

10. November 2011 · Comments Off · Categories: FBQD

[name here] had a spiritual experience on oboe. unfortunately, it was somebody else’s oboe. the good news – i’m not as bad as i thought i was. the bad news – my oboe’s worse than i thought it was.

Stafford Hartman plans to sing her behind-the-scenes role in an opera tonight at the Orpheum from a wheelchair.

Hartman, 24, was shot in her right knee and a bullet grazed her left ear as she was robbed outside her home on Wednesday after rehearsal for the opera “Tosca.”

“He said give me all of your stuff,” Hartman said Friday.

“I just said no; I don’t know why,” said Hartman, who is bedridden now and will need crutches for about six weeks.

RTWT

 

I think maybe I would have said, “sure, take the darn stuff.”

10. November 2011 · Comments Off · Categories: TQOD

After 25 min of #oboe, my cheeks are ready to go on strike.

How about a little Cecilia Bartoli for the afternoon?

… and because it is just too much fun, the second video from this:

09. November 2011 · Comments Off · Categories: FBQD

After a good couple hours playing oboe, time to chop up some pineapple…and watch some Ninja Turtles. Yes.

09. November 2011 · Comments Off · Categories: TQOD

(Oops! I forgot to prepare these for posting, and nothing at all went up yesterday for the “QODs”. Bet you were sad about that. Or not.)

Welcome to land of no cell phone reception. Yay oboe practice time. I see what they did there lol

09. November 2011 · Comments Off · Categories: WorldReeds™

Wouter Verschuren, dulcian
Kathryn Cok, harpsichord