So here’s a question. Am I doing it wrong, or is it just that every person does it differently? This year I’ve been playing much more second oboe than everContinue readingPlaying Second – and Learning!
Yamaha Made Me Better
The Yamaha oboe has made me better. No doubt everyone is tired of hearing me rhapsodize about this instrument, but it’s revolutionized my approach. I can just play, and ifContinue readingYamaha Made Me Better
Chen Wrap-Up – Moving Forward!
Here I am again, in the phase immediately after culminating the project. Sometimes this is an empty time, but right now I’m flying high and too busy to be sad.Continue readingChen Wrap-Up – Moving Forward!
This Is It!
Today is the last day before I get to play Extase with the orchestra. We have two rehearsals tomorrow and one on Sunday before our Sunday afternoon performance. And IContinue readingThis Is It!
Upcoming Concerts
This week the Northwest Indiana Symphony has a great concert. Prokofiev 5 is one of the truly great symphonies – tragic, heroic, funny, hopeful – a huge range of humanContinue readingUpcoming Concerts
Zoe is 27 Months Old!
Zoe called for me at 4:30 in the morning. She had wet through her diaper, and was happy to talk about it. As I was changing her she said, I’mContinue readingZoe is 27 Months Old!
It’s Not About Me
I have been reworking my reeds lately, and I am ecstatic with the results I am getting. The tone is more covered but not less exciting, I feel, and forContinue readingIt’s Not About Me
Upcoming Concert, and a Speech You Missed
We’re performing tomorrow night here in South Bend, and playing the score to a silent movie – The Phantom of the Opera! I’ve done shows like this before, I thinkContinue readingUpcoming Concert, and a Speech You Missed
Preparing Chen
I am preparing Extase, by Qigang Chen, for a performance on October 23. This will not be news to readers. Now that I am just a few weeks out, myContinue readingPreparing Chen
Upcoming Concert
This weekend I am performing with the Heartland Festival Orchestra in Washington, IL. The group is a relatively new arrival on the scene – it did not exist when IContinue readingUpcoming Concert