Where Are All The Oboists These Days? Options

[katica]

Would like to join an amateur orchestra at some stage and play at Forum events (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

Are you thinking about attending any of the upcoming events, pianophrae?

Hi Katica, well I made ny debut on the oboe at Egham this year and have played a couple more times in front of a small audience (Solari's piano gathering with corenfa accom;panying) and at my piano teachers adult get-together.

I don't have any forum events planned at the moment, definately hope to do Egham 2012 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)
but will keep my eye on the Events pages.

Have you got any planned ?

I live raaather far away to make Forum events but I hope to be back in the UK in July-August and hope maybe to sign up for the Stalybridge event on 23 July.

Flobiano, you thinking of going to that? Very sorry to see that pushpull will be working that day and can't make it. I'd really like to meet some more Forum oboists...

I bought:
Britten Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, Anatomy of a masterpiece - I LOVE this, it would be worth the money just for the booklet that comes with it! Lots of background and analysis of the pieces and recordings by 3 different oboists including Joy Boughton who was the first person to perform it.

Me too. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif)

[flobiano]

I live raaather far away to make Forum events but I hope to be back in the UK in July-August and hope maybe to sign up for the Stalybridge event on 23 July.

Flobiano, you thinking of going to that? Very sorry to see that pushpull will be working that day and can't make it. I'd really like to meet some more Forum oboists...

Yes I am planning to go, in fact have just written my form out tonight. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Roseau]

Have started to learn, on my own, some easy ensemble pieces with a view to eventually getting together with some friends (clarinet and cello) to play.

I love playing with a cello (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif)
I'm waiting for my daughter to grow out of her dislike of flat keys and then I can try and convince her that she would like to spend her free time playing baroque music with me (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Going to take G3 Oboe in session B. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)

Good luck for the exam.
What are you playing?

[Arundodonuts]

I bought:
Britten Six Metamorphoses after Ovid, Anatomy of a masterpiece - I LOVE this, it would be worth the money just for the booklet that comes with it! Lots of background and analysis of the pieces and recordings by 3 different oboists including Joy Boughton who was the first person to perform it.

It's a superb collection.

Birtwistle Orpheus Elegies played by Melinda Maxwell. Competely different to anything I've really listened to before, I've only listened to the first few tracks so far, some of them are a bit too weird for me, a couple of them I do really, really like, very strange and haunting!

I saw MM play some of these at the IDRS in Birmingham (which is why I bought the CD).

If you are open to a bit of contemporary music I will plug (again) 2 albums by New Noise - Insomniac and Frozen River Flows and Intercession by Pipers 3. Certainly nothing "frightening" on them.

[katica]

I live raaather far away to make Forum events but I hope to be back in the UK in July-August and hope maybe to sign up for the Stalybridge event on 23 July.

Flobiano, you thinking of going to that? Very sorry to see that pushpull will be working that day and can't make it. I'd really like to meet some more Forum oboists...

Yes I am planning to go, in fact have just written my form out tonight. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Oh good! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

I love playing with a cello (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif)

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The cello is my very favourite accompaniment to the oboe.

Wouldn't mind trying Piazzolla with a viola... and an accordion/bandoneon! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

If you are open to a bit of contemporary music I will plug (again) 2 albums by New Noise - Insomniac and Frozen River Flows and Intercession by Pipers 3. Certainly nothing "frightening" on them.

I vote for Insomniac too. Haven't heard the other New Noise CD.

[Arundodonuts]

I vote for Insomniac too. Haven't heard the other New Noise CD.

It's brilliant. I reckon even better than Insomniac. But then Frozen River Flows (yes the title track) and Peace for Vayu have become two of my favourite pieces having seen New Noise perform them (twice!).

[OboePiano]

I had my A Level Recital yesterday evening, and it went really well! I started off with Pan by Britten, and it was probably the best I've ever played it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) I was really worried, because I had to get a new reed the day before, as my nice one split, but the whole evening went really well, and everyone played really well (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Now I get to choose some new repertoire to learn which is exciting- thinking of more of the Mozart, starting Saint-Saens, and then whatever else I can get my hands on (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[katica]

I had my A Level Recital yesterday evening, and it went really well! I started off with Pan by Britten, and it was probably the best I've ever played it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) I was really worried, because I had to get a new reed the day before, as my nice one split, but the whole evening went really well, and everyone played really well (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Now I get to choose some new repertoire to learn which is exciting- thinking of more of the Mozart, starting Saint-Saens, and then whatever else I can get my hands on (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

(IMG:style_emoticons/default/clap.gif) Congratulations, OboePiano!!!

[pianophrase]

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Going to take G3 Oboe in session B. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)
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Good luck for the exam.
What are you playing?
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A) Handel - Bourree anglaise: Allegro
B) Mussorgsky - Tranen
C) Graham Salter - Gnome or Carl Baermann - Study in C

[Arundodonuts]

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Going to take G3 Oboe in session B. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)
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Good luck for the exam.
What are you playing?
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A) Handel - Bourree anglaise: Allegro
B) Mussorgsky - Tranen
C) Graham Salter - Gnome or Carl Baermann - Study in C
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Ah.... I did the Handel and Mussorgsky in my Grade 3. Nice pieces. Good luck.

[pianophrase]

Thank you, I have the notes under my fingers and am working on producing a good tone, breathing (in the right places), dynamics etc. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)


Which piece did you choose in list C ?

[Arundodonuts]

Thank you, I have the notes under my fingers and am working on producing a good tone, breathing (in the right places), dynamics etc. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)


Which piece did you choose in list C ?

Hinke, page 18 no.1

[flobiano]

A) Handel - Bourree anglaise: Allegro
B) Mussorgsky - Tranen
C) Graham Salter - Gnome or Carl Baermann - Study in C

I don't know the Mussorgsky, but I am currently working on the first two movements of the Handel Sonata. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif) Definitely an option for my Grade 8. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Best of luck in your prep for grade 3.

Well done in your recital OboePiano, glad that it went well, let us know what you pick to work on next! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

I am really looking forward to my lesson on Wednesday - my last lesson was immediately after my holiday when I had no stamina and was horrendously jet lagged. My lesson before that was 7 weeks ago! Really looking forward to having something new to work on!

[katica]

A) Handel - Bourree anglaise: Allegro
B) Mussorgsky - Tranen
C) Graham Salter - Gnome or Carl Baermann - Study in C

I don't know the Mussorgsky, but I am currently working on the first two movements of the Handel Sonata. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif) Definitely an option for my Grade 8. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Best of luck in your prep for grade 3.

Well done in your recital OboePiano, glad that it went well, let us know what you pick to work on next! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

I am really looking forward to my lesson on Wednesday - my last lesson was immediately after my holiday when I had no stamina and was horrendously jet lagged. My lesson before that was 7 weeks ago! Really looking forward to having something new to work on!

The Mussorgsky is one of those lovely, nostalgic little pieces I like to fumble around with when I'm trying to get stamina and motivation back... I think I'd probably have chosen that for G3 too. Good luck with that pianophrase! The Bourree Anglaise is lovely and sounds nice both played simply (G3) or more ornamented (G8).

Have a great lesson, flobiano! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

And if kerioboe is around here, I hope exam preps are going well! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

I've got a Music Minus One edition of the Handel in order to have backing to play to but have got too much else on to start on that. I don't really have the agility yet, anyway.

[Roseau]

What do people do in the run-up to their exams?

My exam is just under two weeks away and I'm not sure that I can do much more to the pieces at the level I am at at the moment. (Of course I would like to be able to play Saint Saens with a tone like Albrecht Mayer on the CD I have of it but that is obviously not an achievable aim).

In my lesson this morning my teacher just picked up on two fairly minor points in the Saint Saens and nothing at all in the other piece. His verdict was that if I am having a day when I can control my breathing then they will be very good and if I am having a day when my breathing has gone to pot then they will be just about OK. (His polite way of saying that they will be out of tune, with a poor tone and no musicality (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif) ). He said I should practise "deep" breathing as much as possible (and not just when I've got the oboe, when I'm cooking, standing at bus stops etc.) to try and make it become instinctive. But he didn't really give any suggestions as to what to do with the oboe. I will sort out the two precise things he mentioned and practise playing the two pieces one after the other but apart from that I don't know what to do. Part of me is bored with them but part of me thinks I ought not to be playing anything else (and I don't have scales, sight-reading or aural to do).

I was also getting quite stressed about reeds - I only had one that I felt happy with so I spent last weekend trying to make another one. I scraped three, two were not much better than what I already have but one felt like it might be very good so I got cold feet and didn't scrape it to completion. I asked my teacher to finish it for me this morning and it is (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif) Only problem is I now can't decide how much to play it so that it stays the way it is.