The trio is on tour in Greenland, where you don’t find cornfields — 80 percent of the land lies under ice — and where the local language, Inupik, doesn’t have a word for oboe. (The Inupik word for “bird song,” used to describe the flute, will have to suffice.)
I say call an oboe an oboe. Not that I’m opposed to “bird song” … except that describes a flute and what oboe wants to be described like a flute? I asked both of my oboes and they said, “No thanks.” I’ll bet yours will too. Or maybe your instrument(s) will say hautbois, hobo, hoboj, obo, or some such thing, eh?
I read about Trio La Milpa and their trip to Greenland after visiting this blog entry by Letter V.
I’d love to put together the Beethoven works for a recital. Doing so, though, takes time and work. So I’m just waiting for someone else to do the work and plan the times and then I’m there.
Check out the Letter V blog from our post-tour Greenland concert.
TOUR REPERTOIRE
Beethoven-Trio, Op. 87
Beethoven-Mozart Variations
Koetsier-Bach Variations
Triebensee-Haydn Variations
Handel-G Minor Concerto (K. Needleman, arr.)
Jacob-Suite
Bartok-Nine Peasant Dances (D. Bussick, arr.)
Greenland Whale Fisheries (Lisicky, arr.)
Slane-Be Thou My Vision (Lisicky, arr.)
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Education Concert with Musikskolen Students
Simple Gifts (arr, w/trio)
Qaqqat akornani (arr, w/trio)
8 concerts/5 days
I approved the above comment, but I’m not sure of its purpose; I already had a link to the Letter V blog.
Perhaps “AltoLFudge” can fill me in …? 🙂