Listener Karen Birch of Miami offers us a peek into the world of oboe players. To prepare to play the instrument, the double-reed mouthpiece must be prepped. It's critical to a good sound. Birch walks ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) - On a recent Saturday night, Cynthia Koledo DeAlmeida, the principal oboist of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, returned to her home in Franklin Park after a performance at Heinz ...
The oboe, revered for its intimate and affecting sound, challenges musicians who create its beauty in ways concealed from most who love its sonorities. It’s an instrument with a history that goes back ...
Unlike most oboists, I didn’t take up the oboe until I was about 30, after we had our first child and moved to Hingham. What terrific luck that there was a community music school, the South Shore ...
As nine young oboists watched closely Sunday, Lindabeth Binkley demonstrated how to shave a tiny bit of cane from an oboe reed. Binkley, Central Michigan University’s oboe professor, was leading an ...
No one has ever become world-famous by playing the oboe. Although the instrument has an integral role in the orchestral ecosystem—every ensemble tunes to its piercing A—the sweet-and-sour tang of its ...
The oboe, a long reedy apparatus, is an overlooked member of the woodwind family. Yet it’s the instrument that the rest of the orchestra tune themselves to. Described by the son of Jean de Vergie, an ...
Last month, Erin Hannigan was preparing for her last two performances as Dallas Symphony’s principal oboist before joining the faculty at the prestigious Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in ...
William Perry Baker was introduced to the oboe in high school, and a lifelong musical romance followed. Along the way, Baker taught, mentored and amused scores of younger oboists, many of whom are now ...
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