TQOD oboeinsight Golden or silver plated key system on my new oboe? Silver is too main-stream yet gold is more profound. Difficult choice! #Classical 15 hours ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

How the Oboist’s Art is Like a Bad Marriage oboeinsight Although many musicians won’t admit it, there are conversations that go on between an instrumentalist and their instrument. Making all that beautiful music together requires the cooperation of both parties and there is always a subtle negotiation that goes on between them. For some instruments, these conversations are fairly straight-forward. For example, violinists have conversations [...] 1 day ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Spam Messages oboeinsight Those of you who don’t blog miss out on some things that might, quite literally, make you LOL. Or at least shake your head. Or something. Below are a few comments I’ve received recently. Needless to say, they didn’t get approved. But I do approve of them for laughter material. All of these had links [...] 1 day ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Henri Dutilleux 1916-2013 oboeinsight Henri Dutilleux, one of France’s leading modern composers, has died in Paris aged 97, his family has confirmed. Born in Angers in 1916, he was a prolific composer of predominantly instrumental works, including symphonies and orchestral pieces. His latest work, Correspondances, was recorded for the first time in January this year to celebrate his birthday. [...] 1 day ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

TQOD oboeinsight Concerto per Violino e Oboe, Johann Sebastian Bach provides 6:34 of relaxing music. Slow that crazy brain down. 1 day ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

FBQD oboeinsight i got a one on my oboe solo!!! that is the best grade u can get!!! I love reading these happy Facebook posts! (Very likely this is the last FBQD. :-( 2 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

TQOD oboeinsight (Sorry I forgot to post a TQOD yesterday, and sorrier still that FBQDs will stop soon unless the site I was using to find them returns properly. At the moment when I use it it only gives me posts that use “obo” … as in “or best offer”. Rats!) And of course the one time [...] 2 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Harry Potter on Glass oboeinsight Very cool! 3 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

Beethoven’s 9th App oboeinsight Many thanks to my daughter Kelsey for bringing this to my attention! Deutsche Grammophon in partnership with Touch Press proudly announce the release of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony App, available now on the App Store for iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone. The Beethoven’s 9th Symphony App features four of DG’s greatest recordings of this iconic work, [...] 3 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story

FBQD oboeinsight Listening to myself play oboe… haven’t heard that in a long time. 3 days ago | Comment | Tag | Read Full Story