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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000015.txt from 2008/03

From: David Bell <bssn2@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] An oboe is not a bassoon!
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:10:05 -0500

Gee, and I thought the oboe is the soprano voice of the bassoon
family! :0)

David Bell
Alexandria, VA

On Mar 9, 2008, at 7:05 PM, HAROLD wrote:

> Dear List(s):
> I want to scream,open the windows and yell to all the neighbors:an
> oboe is NOT a bassoon and vice versa!
> Instead I write to you,dear Lists.
> As noted in prior posts,I am
> organizing ,arranging,orchestrating,researching and performing
> (beginning next week) music from the period of 1808 to celebrate in
> Brazil, the 200th anniversary of the Portuguese Royal Family
> arriving in Rio de Janeiro. (They were fleeing Napoleon--never
> learned that back in public school in the old country called the
> uSA).Included in my repertoire for flute oboe and bassoon
> (cello) ,oboe and piano,oboe,voice and piano are the works of S.
> Neukomm,an Austrian who studied with Haydn and took a sailboat to
> Rio from 1816 to 1822.
> In any case, today the nation's most revered magazine published a
> short report on my activities with a pic of Noel Devos,bassoonist
> only my name was substituted for the French bassoonist and his
> bassoon identified as an oboe.
> This is the second time this has happened in three years.
> Moral of the story :correct errors in the media immediately
> otherwise they go into the archives and perpetuate.
> A fine Sunday to oboebassoonists.
> Rgds,
>
> harold emert
> Rio-Brazil
>
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