I rarely give standing ovations. I’m stingy that way. When I stand, I want it to mean something. If I stand at everything it’s fairly meaningless, don’tcha think?
Or maybe I’m just lazy. Hmmm.
But someone got yelled at for giving a standing ovation. Amazing:
I particularly enjoyed it, so I stood up at the end and clapped. Something often referred to as a standing ovation.
A man and woman next to me also stood up, and at once provoked the blind, spitting fury of a well-dressed couple behind them who had remained seated. “How dare you stand up and ruin my appreciation?” said the well-dressed man.
Now I can understand someone getting angry about a standing O if the performance is bad. Heck, I’ve been on stage before when an audience has stood and I want to yell out, “Stop! It wasn’t that good!” (For the record, I’ve never done that.) But for an audience member to yell at someone in front of him because he can’t see? Well, as frustrated as I sometimes am because people stand right in front of me (Yes, it really does bug me.) I would never yell at the person or people. Just as I won’t yell at the people I frequently see in audiences who don’t applaud at all. And I’ve seen a number of them recently. Similar to my wanting to yell, “Stop! It wasn’t that good!” I sometimes want to go over and shake the person not applauding and say, “Don’t you realize that what you just heard (or saw) was glorious?!” I refrain from doing that too. I hope you all are proud of me for my wonderful restraint.
The article is about indie artist JoannA Newsom. I’ve heard people rave about her. (I think Alex Ross was one who mentioned her in a positive way.) While she’s not quite my cuppa, that’s probably just okay; I’m kind of old and she’s kind of not. So why should she be my cuppa, right? But still, I’ll give her a listen and see if the music grows on me.
Sorry to say I couldn’t find a YouTube video with the “folksy oboe”. Oh well. But she obviously loves clothes! ;-)
Are classical musicians ever taught how to improvise a solo?
I see rock and blues musicans do it all the time. When my friend (who’s a classical pianist) improvises, it’s usually because she messed up. She repeats a line several times and calls it improvising, which it is, in a way.
When I mess up and improvise in rock and blues, I pick up the scale and add my own licks into a song.
I am developing a classical music section on my iTunes and i am looking for some unique classical music such as “one mans dream”, and “Enchantment” by Yanni and i was hopeing to find some similar to this.
I have been playing oboe for over six years now. I’ve gotten pretty good, and have been through every reed texture. Until I know how to make my own reeds, I buy them from music stores. I played on hard reeds for a long time but recently switched back to medium. However, my dad bought three hard reeds on the internet a couple weeks ago, so I decided to break them in early so they would be ready when my current reed wore out. So two weeks ago I pulled out a hard reed and began to try to break it in. I have been trying for these past two weeks, yet the reed is still not playable! It used to only take me a few days to break in hard reeds… I’ve tried playing on it, soaking it in my mouth, soaking it under a faucet, and I even soaked it in a bit of water overnight! This reed is extremely stubborn! Someone suggested to me I soak it in vinegar. Will this work? And will I be able to get the vinegar taste off of it if I do? What other ways can I can break this reed in before my current one wears out in about two weeks? And do you have any idea why it’s taking so long?
Never in my life have I heard anything about soaking reeds in vinegar! And I’m not at all sure what the write means about having “been through every reed texture”.
If a reed is incredibly hard, playing on it probably isn’t going to make it easier. Some reeds, in fact, stiffen up a bit after being played on for a bit. It needs to have some cane taken off of it. I’m going to guess the tip is far too thick, and most likely the back as well.
My answer (which I didn’t write there, as I assume others can take care of that: this player needs a teacher. I don’t make my students’ reeds (I have enough trouble getting enough for myself), but I’m happy to adjust students’ reeds. All teachers should be happy to do that.
And all student oboists need an oboe teacher in any case. Honestly!
When asked what he had listened to most recently for pleasure, de Waart answered without hesitating, “James Taylor. ‘Never Die Young.’?”
Calling Taylor a “great American artist,” he said he exchanges Christmas cards with the singer/songwriter and plays his music so often that his young children recognize it after just a few notes.
No James Taylor is on the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra schedule for next season, though.
Midlife crisis moment No 25: spending Saturday night at an orchestra recital.
Dear lord, surely I am still too young to be listening to Poulenc’s Stabat Mater at the Royal Festival Hall? Whatever happened to clubbing? And what’s next: backgammon and scones at the Women’s Institute?
If you have never been to a classical music concert, and ever find yourself, like me, married to someone who seems to have become prematurely middle-aged overnight, then here’s a tip: don’t go if you have a cough. So uptight is the classical music crowd that one is only permitted to cough between movements, or whatever the hell they’re called.
Who knew? The consequence of all this repression is that, as soon as the last violin string fades, the entire audience breaks out in a loud, bronchial hack. It’s very disconcerting but also really funny. In the sober world of classical music, you get your laughs where you can.
I have to play the oboe in a concert in 2 weeks. I usually smoke electronic cigarettes but I ran out of liquid and was smoking real cigarettes for about a week. How long will it take for my lungs to get back to working like normal if I’ve stopped right now (able to play a long concert on the oboe)?
Until just now I had never heard of electronic cigarettes before. Bizarre.
I Like this guy who plays flute, is a junior and like the first chair Flute in our school band. I want to know if anyone thinks that’s wierd. If so why? And if you don’t do you think it’s cool I like him? By the way I also play the flute too.