I’ve never been comfortable with playing the unaccompanied Bach … I hate taking a breath and so I crash and burn. I prefer to just listen, thank you very much!
Juan Manuel García-Cano Ruiz, oboe.
Concierto Docente de la Cátedra de oboe
de Hanjörg Schellenberger. Prof. Asistente: Víctor Manuel Ánchel
Auditorio SONY Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía
I’ve decided that I’m starting a new band. Rehearsal begins on the morrow. We will be needing a few instruments. Oboe, Sax, Clarinet, Upright Bass, Banjo, Piano/Keyboard/Synthesizer, Trumpet, Trombone, Washboard, Accordion & general Drums (must be capable of both blues and jazz styles) please contact me. Those of us already involved would like to get started as soon as possible. We have a LOT of plans and would like to be as all-inclusive / well-rounded & hearty as possible. I have classical training, as do a few other people. Please come ready to create art. Love you all.
Guy next to me finishing his doctorate in oboe, to sub with MN opera. I don’t have the heart to tell him it’s not pronounced “Turandoh.”
A classical music event in Israel is expected to break the country’s taboo on performing the music of Richard Wagner, the 19th century German composer and a well-known anti-Semite.
The Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported this week that the event, scheduled for June 18, will feature orchestral musicians performing selections from Wagner’s “Der Ring des Nibelungen” and other operas.
U know how i play the oboe people always ask me whats the difrence betweine the oboes mouth-pece or reed & the clarinets u know what people LOOK IT UP!!!!! thats what google is for!!!
(I would suggest this Facebook person use a dictionary!)
Just saw my brother play oboe solos. What a boss:)
I’m playing Mary Poppins for two weeks. It’s all a bit surreal, since my mother died on Monday and our first rehearsal was Monday, but that’s the life of a musician: we don’t get to take a rehearsal off and still play the job. If we don’t play the job we don’t get paid. I love my work, and I wouldn’t trade it, but this is one of the things that can cause difficulties.
That being said, this post isn’t about that, really. (I guess I just felt like whining …?!) It’s more about that whole “Spoonful of Sugar” thing Mary talks about. Seems to me they need to change the words.
… and who knew that “aspoonful” was one word, eh?
… I’ve had “Jolly Holiday With Mary” (from Mary Poppins) stuck in my head for days. Sad, but true. So here … let’s try to change that with this oboe duo:
No names were listed or you know I’d put ’em up.
Update The musicians are Alex (on the right) and Alberto. (Thanks, Alex!)
An orchestra — not in California — is deciding which of five conducting candidates will win a job. In an article I read they provided the reader with a “what our critic said” blurb for each conductor. With names removed, here are those blurbs (GRPR=gender revealing pronoun removed):
Comments? I’m a bit flummoxed.
Or maybe I just wanted to use that word.
