Where Are All The Oboists These Days? Options

[Hardying]

[Embarrassed to say, I've never heard of it. What sort of music does he play?
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Me either (IMG:style_emoticons/default/embarassed.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Arundodonuts]

[quote name='Hardying' date='Nov 15 2011, 10:05 PM' post='1105966']
[Embarrassed to say, I've never heard of it. What sort of music does he play?
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Me either (IMG:style_emoticons/default/embarassed.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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Google is your friend
http://www.amazon.com/Tree-Your-Ear-Philip...n/dp/B00000243F

[katica]

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[quote name='Hardying' date='Nov 15 2011, 10:05 PM' post='1105966']
[Embarrassed to say, I've never heard of it. What sort of music does he play?
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Me either (IMG:style_emoticons/default/embarassed.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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Google is your friend
http://www.amazon.com/Tree-Your-Ear-Philip...n/dp/B00000243F
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Indeed. But I was being lazy and it?s interesting to hear what other Forumites think...

I could listen to that. Some of it sounds a bit twee but other pieces are quite interesting.

[Hardying]

[I could listen to that. Some of it sounds a bit twee but other pieces are quite interesting.
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Definitely interesting, but I think I'll stick with baroque & romantic music to listen to (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

[Roseau]

Thanks, it's all done. Could have gone a lot better but I'm reasonably confident I did enough to pass...just feel like I let myself down a little bit - I am capable of playing much better than I did.

Somewhat belatedly - I hope you got the mark you want.
And what are you playing now? (Since you said you were looking forward to playing something new).

On the subject of new things, does anyone know the Pixas Oboe Sonata? My teacher said he thought I might like that and I had to confess that I had never even heard of the composer (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif) I have found the 2nd (slow) movement on Youtube but am slightly wary of what the 1st and 3rd movements might be like as presumably they are fast.

Last week I lent him a CD of British oboe and flute music which has the Madeline Dring flute/oboe/piano trio on it and he came to this week's lesson saying that he had very much enjoyed the CD as a whole, that it had given him some ideas for his own chamber music playing and he thought I should look at all three movements of the Dring and not just the 2nd movement as I had initially envisaged.

Yesterday I went to my flautist partner's flute lesson and we played the 1st movement of the Telemann duet to her teacher. The result of that is that we are now playing it in a pupils' concert at the end of next week (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)

[katica]

Thanks, it's all done. Could have gone a lot better but I'm reasonably confident I did enough to pass...just feel like I let myself down a little bit - I am capable of playing much better than I did.

Somewhat belatedly - I hope you got the mark you want.
And what are you playing now? (Since you said you were looking forward to playing something new).

On the subject of new things, does anyone know the Pixas Oboe Sonata? My teacher said he thought I might like that and I had to confess that I had never even heard of the composer (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif) I have found the 2nd (slow) movement on Youtube but am slightly wary of what the 1st and 3rd movements might be like as presumably they are fast.

Last week I lent him a CD of British oboe and flute music which has the Madeline Dring flute/oboe/piano trio on it and he came to this week's lesson saying that he had very much enjoyed the CD as a whole, that it had given him some ideas for his own chamber music playing and he thought I should look at all three movements of the Dring and not just the 2nd movement as I had initially envisaged.

Yesterday I went to my flautist partner's flute lesson and we played the 1st movement of the Telemann duet to her teacher. The result of that is that we are now playing it in a pupils' concert at the end of next week (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)

Good luck with the concert! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Sounds like you may have your teacher's Xmas present sorted! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
(That is, if you do Xmas presents for teachers there.)

Have to admit, I've never heard of Pixas, either...

By the way, my flautist friend is thrilled to bits with the duet suggestions. She's missed out on three end-of-term concerts because of the lack of accompanist, so now we're well set. In fact, looking for flute-oboe-cello/basso continuo options so we can play with her sister too.

(I'm going to be naughty and try 5 mins on the oboe on Friday - 4 weeks since operation and check-up with doc on Monday. My excuse is to know how it feels so I can tell him when I go for the check-up.)

[Roseau]

Have to admit, I've never heard of Pixas, either...

That's reassuring (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
Although even in my lesson, I had sort of concluded that he was probably not that well known as I asked my teacher how his name was spelt (I don't always immediatly cotton-on to French pronunciation - in my early days of oboe learning I once failed to recognise Hayden when pronounced with a French accent) and my teacher said he couldn't remember.

By the way, my flautist friend is thrilled to bits with the duet suggestions. She's missed out on three end-of-term concerts because of the lack of accompanist, so now we're well set. In fact, looking for flute-oboe-cello/basso continuo options so we can play with her sister too.

There's lots of baroque music you can look at if you've got a cellist (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wub.gif)

(I'm going to be naughty and try 5 mins on the oboe on Friday - 4 weeks since operation and check-up with doc on Monday. My excuse is to know how it feels so I can tell him when I go for the check-up.)

Do be careful! Maybe you ought to just try the reed by itself. Or take the oboe with you to your check up.

[katica]

(I'm going to be naughty and try 5 mins on the oboe on Friday - 4 weeks since operation and check-up with doc on Monday. My excuse is to know how it feels so I can tell him when I go for the check-up.)

Do be careful! Maybe you ought to just try the reed by itself. Or take the oboe with you to your check up.

I will. Actually, I was planning to take my oboe to the check-up anyway but I thought I'd give it a try first. I did one peep today (I was taking an extremely silly picture for the even sillier Forum Awards Ceremony thread - needed a bit of silliness to cheer up today). It didn't hurt so I think I might be safe with a quick blow tomorrow to see how it feels. I'll stop if I feel anything at all strange and will keep it to less than 5 mins. Good idea to start with the reed.

I think I will give the circular breathing thing a go, though I have the horrible suspicion that it might be the route to bad breathing habits. I've managed to do it without the oboe. I showed my flatmate the technique I had invented for myself and he was very impressed to find it really works. It's another thing with the reed/instrument in your mouth, though.

[Roseau]

I think I will give the circular breathing thing a go, though I have the horrible suspicion that it might be the route to bad breathing habits. I've managed to do it without the oboe. I showed my flatmate the technique I had invented for myself and he was very impressed to find it really works. It's another thing with the reed/instrument in your mouth, though.

Have you spent your convalesence perfecting circular breathing?

On one of my summer courses people told me about the previous year when someone had asked the oboe teacher for a demonstration of circular breathing one evening. Apparently there was no water immediately to hand so he had demonstrated with an oboe reed in his glass of wine and then other people had wanted a go and there had been a whole group of people with oboe reeds all trying to do circular breathing in their glasses of wine (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

[katica]

I think I will give the circular breathing thing a go, though I have the horrible suspicion that it might be the route to bad breathing habits. I've managed to do it without the oboe. I showed my flatmate the technique I had invented for myself and he was very impressed to find it really works. It's another thing with the reed/instrument in your mouth, though.

Have you spent your convalesence perfecting circular breathing?

On one of my summer courses people told me about the previous year when someone had asked the oboe teacher for a demonstration of circular breathing one evening. Apparently there was no water immediately to hand so he had demonstrated with an oboe reed in his glass of wine and then other people had wanted a go and there had been a whole group of people with oboe reeds all trying to do circular breathing in their glasses of wine (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Now THAT definitely tops my technique!!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

No, I haven't really done much on circular breathing. I've been very lazy and mostly reading, watching films --- and browsing the Forum. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) The first couple of weeks I didn't even feel like thinking much!!!

My technique is something like blowing a raspberry. Doesn't work well with a reed because I think I'm sort of making the raspberry sound still... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif) But it gets you up the first big step, which is expelling air while breathing in and out. I think it helps to feel the change from actually blowing to something that feels more like spitting.

My flatmate confirmed what you implied in your first suggestion to circular breathe - that you don't need support for it. But I definitely feel as though I am still giving some abdominal support when I do the Eternal Raspberry Thing.

Can you circular breathe now? Or, after that experience, only when tipsy? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[katica]

PS

Google hasn't heard of Pixas either.

[Roseau]

PS

Google hasn't heard of Pixas either.

That's because I posted it with a typing mistake (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif)
It was supposed to be Pixis. (I blame this on my teacher who suggested several alternate spellings in my lesson, none of which turned out to be right when I got home and started trying to look him up).

He was a 19th century German composer and this is a bit of his oboe sonata.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HOmJZ7B2_M

Pixis came up because we were talking about the dearth of 19th century oboe music. My teacher had started by saying that I might like to look at the Strauss concerto but since he could see that I was not being convinced by his argument that it would be "good" for my breathing (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif) he suggested Pixis instead.

And re the wine/circular breathing story, it happened the year before I went on the course so I didn't actually see it. I have now been three times and each year the story has been repeated but the tutor has always declined to give another demonstration (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

[katica]

It was supposed to be Pixis. [...]

He was a 19th century German composer and this is a bit of his oboe sonata.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HOmJZ7B2_M

I rather liked that! You'd need a good tone and at least a shade of expressive vibrato, I should think, to make it sound nice. I thought Paul Dombrecht's "romantic oboe" (is that any different from a modern one?) sounded distinctly "violiny", especially at the beginning. Never ceases to amaze me how an oboe can sound like other instruments...

I couldn't find any sign on the internet of sheet music for this. Who publishes it and where did your teacher get a copy from, kerioboe?

EDIT: I found it! Published by Zimmerman. But no-one seems to stock a print copy...

[flobiano]

I quite liked it too. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) Thanks for posting.

Katica - hope your check up goes OK. Good to hear you are on the verge of picking up the oboe again. Starting with the reed sounds like a good plan.

And what are you playing now? (Since you said you were looking forward to playing something new).

I had a great lesson on Wednesday - lots of technical work to come focussing on improving tone and vibrato and then working on articulation. In terms of music have gone back to the Reizenstein 3 Concert Pieces which I was looking at prior to exams and have started on Alan Richardson's French Suite. Mozart's oboe quartet on the list to look at next. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[katica]

My sick leave got renewed today. For another month. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

Cleared for swimming. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) And for travelling at Christmas (if I can afford it, which I doubt).

No cycling for another month. And "at least two more weeks" off the oboe.

Doc insisted again that the oboe was a contributing factor to health problems ( (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) ) but that when repairs have healed I will be back to a "normal life", including oboe. ( (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) )

Wondering whether to play in Xmas concerts or not. Rehearsals start a week on Tuesday but it won't matter if I miss the first one...