Many of us first heard it while watching a Looney Tunes cartoon. Have you ever wondered why the oboe begins the tuning? How ...

(Scott Suchman/Kennedy Center) Review by Michael Andor Brodeur “I didn’t even know what an oboe was!” The gentleman filing out of the concert hall behind me at intermission was one ...

Take a musical journey back in time when Courtly Noyse brings music from the Renaissance — along with reproduction ...

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 ...

Even if an orchestra tunes to the ‘A’ of a keyboard instrument, the oboe (or first violin) will still pick up the note and play it for the rest of the orchestra, to make sure everyone can hear it.

Oboe playing, like bird watching and taffy pulling, is a passion that seems to run in families. The earliest famous oboe clan was that of Frenchman Jean Philidor, who played at the court of Louis ...

The performance portion of the meeting started off with a quartet consisting of Annie Gerig on oboe, Kathy Helmuth on flute, Marty Starkey on clarinet and Myra Leeper on piano. Victor Young, ...

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