Author: vboboe
Date: 2008-11-23 17:51
... off the topic of specific music piece, but commenting on very scary entrances, my current cliff-hanger for upcoming local concert is a high C totally exposed entry, that cantabile down-slurred 'sigh' from Cavalleria Rusticana intermezzo -- and it's off beat too -- after all that beautiful pp string intro
... my entrance is marked p but my original attempts at p weren't loud enough so i've got to really boost it just right -- intonation, ack!!! and enough air pressure resonance with gentle vibrato so it floats in out of the ethereals ...
... and thank goodness it's written in F, any more sharps or flats would finger fumble into a series of incoherant bleeps
... i keep imagining i'm trying to sing my oboe something like Sarah Brightman
... and yah! each rehearsal it's come out differently, omigosh, first performance of three start next week
... i'm praying it won't be first on the playlist which none of us know the order exactly until next week, and i do hope i'll get some warmups in the high register with something else first
... and i have to make & blow in some lively new reeds this week
yes, the Bacchanale sample sounds delightfully exotic, thanks for mentioning it dutchy, have to pursue getting that for myself, plus Pan, plus Escales, and Scheherazade, and although Aranjuez belongs to E Horn solo work, maybe lower register oboe could do a fair rendition just for fun
each Christmas season i pull out a simplified version of Arabian Dance from Nutcracker and snake the slurs bellywise, lots of fun
... does Vade Mecum have any of these?
How about other titles in the 'exotic' category in VM?
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