What if it was EASY?
What if the oboe was easy? I speak about this constantly. We spend a lot of time in The Invincible Oboist class talking […]
What if the oboe was easy? I speak about this constantly. We spend a lot of time in The Invincible Oboist class talking […]
Don’t wait for it. The lowest notes on the oboe are notoriously difficult to play. They don’t want to speak,
For oboists, endurance is a huge problem. We can play an endlessly long phrase, because of the way the instrument
Classical musicians are trained to make it perfect. To make all the notes correct, to make it sound like the
Special moments come at the least expected times. This video, the one I circulate periodically whenever Facebook reminds me of
You ARE the music. YOU are the music. It’s not the oboe. It’s YOU. Too many oboists live RIGHT up
In a recent dress rehearsal I became aware of just how GREAT my reed was. It felt so EASY to
I can remember at least two old cranky violinists coming to talk to young me about NOT going into music.
I love auditions. No, I do, really. First of all, I like the game of it. Fifty people come to