Concert #2

28. March 2009 · Comments Off on Concert #2 · Categories: Symphony

I’ve been home for an hour … funny how time flies … but I can’t go straight to sleep since I’m rather wired. So I’m sitting here watching an episode of Without A Trace just to try and relax.

The concert went well … I think. I enjoyed playing the solos. 🙂

Sometimes the hardest thing about having important solos isn’t concert time. It’s the day of the concert.

It’s the waiting that can drive me crazy.

I do want to mention, too, that my colleague, Pamela Hakl, played beautifully on the wonderful oboe solo in the second movement of the Brahms Violin Concerto. Ya gotta love that solo, yes?! 🙂

Choose Your Own Ending

28. March 2009 · 2 comments · Categories: Links, Opera

A coming production of his opera “Così Fan Tutte” will ask audience members to vote at intermission for which characters should be married in the final scene.

I read it here. So it must be true.

MQOD & More

28. March 2009 · Comments Off on MQOD & More · Categories: Photos, Quotes, Ramble

Ah yes, reed making. I think that reed making during every free and waking moment of one’s life off the stand takes much more of a sense of humor than most trombonists could ever imagine.

I simply come home, put my mouthpiece on a pedestal, light a candle, and pray that I won’t forget to bring it to the gig the next day.

-Phil Zahorsky

My friend Phil sent me the above response when I wrote this to him:

You trombonists have far too much time to sit around and think up funny things. I think you all should learn reed making instead. Just a suggestion, but there you go.

Don’t you just love it!? Thanks for a fun start to my day, Phil. That, along with catching a “small problem” with my footwear this morning (Whew! Caught it before my brand new student arrived.)

🙂



(How funny that my right foot looks so much smaller than the left, merely because of the shoe! They really are the same size. Honest!)

Nice pair ‘o shoes ..?, originally uploaded by OboeInsight.

Difficult for me to watch

28. March 2009 · 1 comment · Categories: Videos

I’m not sure why, but looking at someone’s vocal cords really bugs me. I have a difficult time, too, with teeth & dentists and just dealing with the inside of the mouth. But anyway, below is a video of an oboist who has had vocal cord problems. Some of you might find this really interesting. (Maybe T over at Notes of an Anesthesioboist will be interested in any case?)

TQOD

28. March 2009 · Comments Off on TQOD · Categories: TQOD

Someone down the hall from me is practicing the oboe. I find the oboe to be the most wretched sounding instrument ever. Obvs makes my day.

BQOD

28. March 2009 · Comments Off on BQOD · Categories: BQOD

When I used to hear classical music, my first thought was always, “elevator music.” I never thought I could fall head over heels for classical music, just from watching one little video.

I read it here. (I’d never heard anyone refer to classical music as “elevator music” before.)