This just reported to me:
ATTENTION: 4 instruments were stolen from the 5th Ave Theatre. A Brannen-Cooper10K gold flute, a Burkart-Phelan piccolo, a Buffet Crampon R-13clarinet, and a Yanagisawa 991 alto sax. If anyone sees an instrument like any of those listed above on Craigslist, E-Bay, or in a pawn shop…or Music Store, please contact Dane Anderson @ 5th Ave Theater or the Seattle police immediately. Thanks!
[name here] is learning how to play the oboe and though she is pretty good….it sounds like someone is beating a duck in my living room!
Until recently, energy efficiency was treated like the second oboe in the clean energy orchestra – it was definitely there, but no one paid it much attention.
And there you go … the life of a second oboist!
Want to read about the principal oboists of the Boston Symphony Orchestra? C’mon … you know you do! Just go here and scroll to the oboe section of the page.
Wouldn’t it be great if we could find this information for all major orchestras? Even better would be to have sound clips for each player. Of course that’s asking a lot … but I love to ask a lot of others.
I landed at a blog of an oboist at Boston Conservatory. In it she bashes some people, including faculty and students at her school.
I continue to be puzzled by people who blog about their music lives, assuming (I would guess) that no one will find them and they won’t be held accountable for what they write.
Reminder: what you write on a public blog is … well … public!
Dream last night included a never ending search for an oboe player and weak-sauce gimlets
I just received this (and a whole lot more; that was one long email!):
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND WGBH BOSTON TO PARTNER WITH THE NEW AUDIOVISUAL LABEL, ICA CLASSICS, TO DISTRIBUTE 32 HISTORIC BSO DVDS FIRST SERIES OF THREE DVDS TO BE RELEASED ON FEBRUARY 22, 2011, FEATURING THE BSO UNDER THE DIRECTION OF CHARLES MUNCH IN MUSIC OF DEBUSSY, RAVEL, WAGNER, FAURÉ, FRANCK, AND BEETHOVEN
BSO PERFORMANCES ORIGINALLY RECORDED AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY’S SANDERS THEATRE BETWEEN 1958 AND 1961 FOR BROADCAST ON WGBH TV AND DISTRIBUTED THROUGH THE EDUCATIONAL RADIO AND TELEVISION CENTERThe Boston Symphony Orchestra and Boston public broadcaster WGBH have partnered with International Classical Artists and their new audio and audiovisual label, ICA Classics, to release 32 BSO historic DVDs over the next four seasons.
The first set of these new BSO archival DVD releases will feature Boston Symphony Orchestra performances that took place at Harvard University’s Sanders Theatre between February 4, 1958 and October 31, 1961, under the direction of Charles Munch (BSO Music Director 1949-1962). These DVDs—featuring music of Debussy, Ravel, Wagner, Fauré, Franck, and Beethoven—represent some of the earliest televised concerts with the Boston Symphony Orchestra (the BSO was first featured on television in 1949 in an NBC radio and television special). Originally broadcast on WGBH television and distributed through the Educational Radio and Television Center (precursor to WNET) to educational television stations nationwide, these BSO/Charles Munch performances are being made available on DVD for the first time commercially through this new partnership between the BSO, WGBH, and ICA Classics.
The first three DVDs will be available starting February 22, 2011 through Naxos of America and can be purchased from Amazon.com and retail stores across the United States, as well as the BSO’s website, www.bso.org. The Boston Symphony will also offer buyers the chance to pre-order the DVDs starting December 1, through www.bso.org or by calling 888-266-1200; these pre-orders will be fulfilled soon after February 22. The DVDs will also be available to purchase in the UK through the ICA Classics website, www.icaclassics.com, beginning January 31, 2011, as well as in retail stores throughout Europe.
A short clip of La Mer, from 1958, can be seen & heard here.
This got me to wondering just who were the oboists of the BSO in the past. Well, guess what? Someone has a page listing Musicians of the Boston Symphony Orchestra 1881 – today. How cool is that?
… but I just have to share this spam because it was so much fun to read out loud to Dan just now:
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