Gratitude
My Long Tone Meditation today is on Gratitude. Feel free to join me in playing a note after each statement. If […]
Harder doesn’t mean better. It is not the case that 12-year-olds need a certain EASY kind of reed, that high-schoolers
What if the oboe was easy? I speak about this constantly. We spend a lot of time in The Invincible Oboist class talking
It’s never wrong to go back to basics. I was working with a college freshman and she was struggling with
You ARE the music. YOU are the music. It’s not the oboe. It’s YOU. Too many oboists live RIGHT up
Last semester, my student came in with the Hoedown from Copland’s Rodeo. Let me guess, I said – the low
I was out running this morning and I crossed the street to avoid a perfectly nice lady walking her perfectly
After my concerto performance last June, I was chatting with a lovely woman from the audience. “It’s not like you’re
I’ve had five different concerts in a row this past four weeks, and for three of them I was not