oboeinsight

I’ve not heard this piece before. Where have I been, eh? The English hornist plays what I call “side saddle” which I used to do when I wore a dress or skirt. I now only wear pants when playing English horn. I did notice that she plays to the side with oboe as well, so it must be the way she prefers to play.

I rarely comment here on someone’s performance. I figure I’ll leave that to critics. 🙂

In any case, I sometimes wish I knew some string players who would like to do chamber music.

Too bad about the abrupt cut off.

And here’s a movement of the Krommer Oboe Quartet No. 1

Finally, the third movement of the Malcolm Arnold Quartet

BQOD = blogger quote of the day
MQOD = music quote of the day
QOD = Hmmm. if you can’t figure that one out just never you mind. 😉

And yes, they all could be one and the same, but I label them the way I see fit. Because this is my own little blog space. Please know that when I post these I’m not saying I agree with them. Much of the time, in fact, I disagree. But they do get people thinking, eh?

I don’t usually link to the blogger’s page, although I will if it’s a person with whom I’ve communicated. If it’s something completely outrageous I definitely don’t link; I don’t want the blogger to receive any hateful comments or anything. I’m nice that way. Not that a reader of this little blog would ever send a hateful comment. Right? 🙂

But I just thought I’d fill you in, in case you are thinking I agree with every single thing I quote here. You’ll just have to guess my opinion of each one. (Although I think it’s usually pretty obvious.)

This article talks about the operas that have come from movies. I didn’t realize A Wedding had been turned into an opera. Or if I did I’d forgotten. (I’d prefer to think I didn’t know … I hate when my memory fails me.)

Has anyone taken an opera and turned it into a movie? I’m not talking about a opera on film, but a spoken word movie. You know? Or are the plots simply too crazy to make that happen?