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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000098.txt from 2003/02
From: "cflat" <cflat@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] freshman principal oboist
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 11:39:42 -0500
I sat first chair in college playing the oboe. I was not a music
major, they needed an oboe player and I wanted to play. The next
year, I was now a sophomore and a freshman came in and she was a
music major. We auditioned, I was obviously the better player.
They told me that she would sit first chair and play the solos
because she was a music major and I was not. I sat in for a few
sessions listening to the mistakes, knowing I could do a better
job, and felt very frustrated. I finally dropped and quit playing
with the group. I found out later she dropped out and changed her
major and quit music. Hopefully they learned to go with the
better player in the future.
I think you need to quit bringing your reed knife and tuner and
eventually they'll figure it out.
Good luck,
Charles
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Picchickel7@-----.net
Reply-To: doublereed-l@-----.edu
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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