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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000093.txt from 2003/02
From: Picchickel7@-----.net
Subj: [DR-L] freshman principal oboist
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 10:35:11 -0500
Hi,
This is my 4th year in college, working on a BME. I am writing to ask for advice about a girl who is in her first year of college and was kind of thrown into being principal oboist in both our top band and orchestra. I don't have to much sympathy for her because she is a good musician.... she is expressive and has good technique. I have come to terms with always being 2nd oboe... I honestly didn't want the responsibilities of being principal. Anyway, the problem is even though musically we are on almost the same level (she's just more confident than I am), emotionally and chronologiclly I am years (really only 4 years) ahead of her.
I don't know how to handle this situation because I have never had someone younger than me play above me. These are the kinds of things that happen during rehearsal: she does not own her own tuner so she borrows mine to tune the orchestra, she gets to rehearsal exactly on time so the principal violinist stands and waits for her to be ready to tune, after 2 months she is still messing up solos--every one of them, she borrows my knife to work on her reeds, when the conductor walks to our section to tell her she needs to work on the solos she whined to him...she's just not acting like a principal oboist should. Things have gotten so bad that we have the silent treatment going on. I think the conductors are being to nice to this girl and they're not teaching her to be the leader a principal player is. I know it has to be hard for her to come in and assume this role, but she knew she was coming to this school to sit first---she had the choice.
Do you have any suggestions to make things better in our section? Is there a book or a website with "Responsibilities of a principal player"? I think maybe it's just that she does't know what she needs to be doing, but I know I'm the last person she'd listen to.
Thanks for the help.
Picchickel7@-----.net
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