Finally … a Montana resident has visiting oboeinsight. How ’bout that?
Now if only Delaware was more aware. Haven’t caught one of them. Yet. 🙂
Oh, and Wyoming too.
Where the heck are you two states? No oboes? Really?
It’s Billy Joel with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Read about it here.
So let’s see …
… can you come up with more?
And should we start a list of classical folks who have moved to pop?
And maybe then start a good list and a bad list? (Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t, imo.)
In addition to being an uncommonly taxing instrument, the oboe is a sensitive and somewhat unpredictable one as well. Notes must be humored and cajoled; the reed is delicate and must be just so; temperature and atmospheric conditions can produce unexpected and disastrous results. In short, the oboe is something of a tempermental prima donna, but an indispensible one in the orchestra.
-“The Technique of Orchestration,” 6th ed., Kent Kennan and Donald Grantham
Well, aside from the “tempermental prima donna” I think they are talking about the oboist too. 😉
(Thanks for the info, Rachel!)
