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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000001.txt from 2004/02

From: BSP6263@-----.com
Subj: [DR-L] In Texas - Ethnic Oboes and African Blackwood
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2004 14:08:55 -0500

Friends,

I'll be performing both "Mpingo's Fruit" and "Oboes Of The World" at UT
Austin on February 9th and 10th. Both presentations are free and open to the
public. Also, there will be a separate room with many different models of Buffet
Oboes and Clarinets for you and your friends to try. Bring reeds. Details are
below.

I'll also be at TMEA hanging out at The Music Group booth. Please come and
visit.

MONDAY, FEB. 9th at 7:30 in the Recital Studio at the School of Music
Instruments to try: Room 2.604 (the class room next to the
recital studio) from 5:00 until 10:00.

"Mpingo's Fruit" is a 90 minute presentation with up to the minute
information about what is really happening in Africa as regards the
harvesting of African Blackwood (Mpingo). Brenda's ongoing research includes
interviews with environmentalists, oboe and clarinet manufacturers, lumbermen,
artists who carve the wood, individuals from Kenya and Tanzania, and the very
person who for 30 years has been selecting trees that become musical
instruments and overseeing the mpingo harvesting process in Mozambique. "Mpingo's
Fruit" includes video footage and about 100 slides, as well as a display of museum
quality Makonde sculptures.

This show will appeal to musicians (stringed instruments including guitars,
oboes, clarinets, flutes and bagpipes all use mpingo), visual artists
especially sculptors, collectors of African art, historians, botanists,
environmentalists, and the general public. It is understandable and
accessible to everyone.

TUESDAY, FEB. 10th from 12:00-2:00 in room 5.254 of the School of
Music - "Oboes of the World"  a presentation of the historical and
spiritual relevance of double reed instruments worldwide

"Oboes Of The World" is a 2 hour lecture-performance covering the history
and use of the oboe (shawm) worldwide.  Brenda Schuman-Post displays and
demonstrates 30 ethnic oboes, shows photographs of master musicians
from 20 different cultures, and plays recent, recorded examples of their
musics.  She
reveals how ethnic music and western music have influenced one another and
how listening to ethnic music can inform, enhance, and enrich our understanding
of
all styles of contemporary American music.

Brenda Schuman-Post