Where Are All The Oboists These Days? Options

[notmusimum]

Am getting excited about one of the courses I am going on this summer (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

I have just found out that Nicolas Daniel will be giving a recital one evening and giving a private (ie not open to the public) masterclass for the course participants.

Where are you going???

I'm going to the Marches oboe school:
[URL] http://marchesoboeschool.webs.com/thecourse.htm [/URL]

What a pity it's the same time as NYRO. It looks like really good value.

[Roseau]

What a pity it's the same time as NYRO. It looks like really good value.

Maybe next year (they run it every year)? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
And won't she be 16 by then too? Which (I think) means she wouldn't need an adult in tow for child protection issues.

[notmusimum]

What a pity it's the same time as NYRO. It looks like really good value.

Maybe next year (they run it every year)? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
And won't she be 16 by then too? Which (I think) means she wouldn't need an adult in tow for child protection issues.

I think it's 18 before you can be without an adult. we'll see how things are next year.

[flobiano]

Am getting excited about one of the courses I am going on this summer (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

I have just found out that Nicolas Daniel will be giving a recital one evening and giving a private (ie not open to the public) masterclass for the course participants.

That sounds like it will be amazing! I'm a bit jealous too - sure you'll have a wonderful time. I will definitely keep this one in mind for next year. Can't fit it in with work and other holiday commitments this year unfortunately! But would love to do it one year.

[Roseau]

That sounds like it will be amazing! I'm a bit jealous too - sure you'll have a wonderful time. I will definitely keep this one in mind for next year. Can't fit it in with work and other holiday commitments this year unfortunately! But would love to do it one year.

I'd had my eye on this for three years and this year is the first time it fits in with family holiday commitments. So, with a bit of patience, I'm sure you'll get there eventually (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[flobiano]

That sounds like it will be amazing! I'm a bit jealous too - sure you'll have a wonderful time. I will definitely keep this one in mind for next year. Can't fit it in with work and other holiday commitments this year unfortunately! But would love to do it one year.

I'd had my eye on this for three years and this year is the first time it fits in with family holiday commitments. So, with a bit of patience, I'm sure you'll get there eventually (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

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Glad that you've managed to make it at last! Hopefully next year will be do-able. Looking forward to hearing about it when you get back! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[A.U.K]

Ditto to the above I so envy you doing masterclass with Nick..you lucky girl..

Well I have just had a two hour rehearsal with my conductor, a lovely man ex LSO or LPO (cellist), he works tirelessly for the music and those who play under him, he's a treasure..Needless to say I had made a mountain out of a mole hill with some of the orchestral parts, Peter and the Wolf Particularly so we literally broke it down and worked at it...By the end of two hours I am much more settled in the work and am not so panicked by certain passages..

Now I am going to put my feet up and have a rest before practice starts again at 5pm for anothe hour which I shall devote to Cimarosa..I really should do Borodin but to the devil with him today, Cimarosa is going to be next..why..cos I can play it thats why.. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Andrew

[flobiano]

Glad you managed to sort out your orchestral pieces. I'm feeling a lot better about the Borodin after our conductor took me and the clarinettist aside so we could work out how our bits fitted together! I think I've got it sussed now - good job as the concert is tomorrow! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)

My lesson was quite hard on Wednesday - trying to manage dynamics and tuning on a brand new reed she'd just given me.... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif) It was very frustrating.

But have some new things to play - we have decided to lay the Poulenc aside for a few months and she's asked me to look at the second movement of the Saint-saens. Seems to be a little more manageable....well the notes anyway - still have a long way to go on tone, vibrato and controlled dynamics...

Also looking at the fourth movemnet of the Telemann Sonata in A minor and the first two movements of Loeillet Sonatain D Major (which is one of the grade 7 A list pieces).

So lots to keep me busy! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[A.U.K]

Hi Flobiano,

yes the orchestral stuf is coming along but my poor lip isnt as strong as it was so I hope it will come back..I can just about manage 20 minute stints then I have to have a break for 5 then back again..I hope the stamina returns..suggestions please on how to get my stamina back?

the Saint Saens is lovely, the 2nd movement is delicious very haunting and I love the slightly faster section before it comes back to the "a tempo", great fun to play..I think the Poulenc is lovely as well but its one heck of a blow...

well lots to do, thought I would drop by and see whats what in the world of Oboe-ing..

rehearsals this evening..

TTFN

Andrew

[katica]

I just have a little break to check on oboey things too... feeling more than a bit disgruntled that I have to be very careful about upsetting people in the B&B I am staying at so I haven't had more than a couple of short sessions on my oboe (also because of a cold) since the York get-together. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) But I did get to drop in briefly at Howarths and spend more than I meant to on music (while buying less than I wanted to (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif) ) and am planning rather rashly to book a session trying out oboes... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Anyone care to join me and keep me under control on Fri 4 June?

Andrew, I was in a dire state a while back and started a thread about getting back into shape on which I got lots of good advice. Don't know whether it's what you need but you can go here for a look see.

flobiano, I am quite sure you will whip that reed into shape in no time. I am quite envious of your current meanderings through the repertoire... I am quite tempted to go even more over budget and add some of these to my purchases but I think it would be a bit over-optimistic. But maybe it would be a good motivation to accelerate progress a bit. Though not on my restricted B&B practice timetable, though...


And how did the concert go???

[Roseau]

I have been snowed under with work and since playing time on my new oboe is limited, I have just been playing long notes and scales on it 3 X 20 minutes a day for the past two weeks.

My teacher was sick last week so I didn't have a lesson but the week before he had given me the cor anglais part of a Mozart oboe/cor anglais duet. The notes and rhythm looked easy but a couple of days before my lesson I thought I ought to get the cor out and play through them and I discovered to my horror that the cor and the oboe have become different instruments (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)

Obviously doing what my teacher had said and just playing "boring things" and concentrating on my embouchure has changed my embouchure and my "new" oboe embouchure doesn't work on the cor anglais.

I played appallingly in my lesson on the cor anglais (out of tune, squeaky notes, no dynamics). My teacher actually seemed quite pleased (he said it showed that at last I was playing the oboe like an oboe and not like a cor) but I was so out of tune that in the end I begged him to let me stop and told him I'd try again at home first. The worst thing is, I'm supposed to be playing these duets in a concert on June 5th (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif) .

[notmusimum]

I have been snowed under with work and since playing time on my new oboe is limited, I have just been playing long notes and scales on it 3 X 20 minutes a day for the past two weeks.

My teacher was sick last week so I didn't have a lesson but the week before he had given me the cor anglais part of a Mozart oboe/cor anglais duet. The notes and rhythm looked easy but a couple of days before my lesson I thought I ought to get the cor out and play through them and I discovered to my horror that the cor and the oboe have become different instruments (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)

Obviously doing what my teacher had said and just playing "boring things" and concentrating on my embouchure has changed my embouchure and my "new" oboe embouchure doesn't work on the cor anglais.

I played appallingly in my lesson on the cor anglais (out of tune, squeaky notes, no dynamics). My teacher actually seemed quite pleased (he said it showed that at last I was playing the oboe like an oboe and not like a cor) but I was so out of tune that in the end I begged him to let me stop and told him I'd try again at home first. The worst thing is, I'm supposed to be playing these duets in a concert on June 5th (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif) .

Poor ypu! It happens like that sometimes even between the same instruments. You will have to divide you playing time between the two now.

[A.U.K]

Argh Ghastly lesson, my reeds were a disaster, nothing would play, I even had a bash at rehashing some old ones out of desperation but it simply wasnt my day...Gave up in the end after an hour and a half of fiddling around and not really being able to play anything without the reeds playing the devil with me..I have never known such a catastrophe..oh well never mind it happens to us all.. so we called it a day I had a cup of tea and came home, utterly racked off with it all..

Ping Pong seems like a much easier option.. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)


Andrew

[Roseau]

Argh Ghastly lesson, my reeds were a disaster, nothing would play,

Sounds like your lesson was as good as mine. Shall we blame it on the weather (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Let's hope next week's is better. (Mine could hardly be any worse, I don't know about you).

[notmusimum]

Three weeks ago Emsoboe had a similar lesson. The person teaching her spent most of it trying to sort out one of her reeds. Sounds like she's in good company with the two of you (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)