Author: RobinDesHautbois
Date: 2012-04-20 10:50
This was a well balanced discussion thread and everyone pretty well agrees: different ways of saying that different tastes are individual and valid.
I have not only respect, but admiration for what the American School has done for the oboe sound. And the fact that you recognize parallel development of sound and playing style around the world only adds to the value.
Albrecht Mayer is my hero, but I don't aspire to play like him.... I don't feel melodies the way he does. For my part, though I do enjoy recordings of American orchestras as a high standard, my favourite playing style is actually Scandinavian. Oslo and Stavanger Philharmonics (Norway) and Estonian National Symphony (especially when conducted by Paavo Jaarvi) have a rather special sound in the woodwind section: when the flute plays, you hear it, when the oboe plays, you know it, when the clarinet plays, it is distinct etc. A woodwind soloist never overshadows the rest of the orchestra or even the section, and yet it rises clearly above the rest.
Canadian culture aspires to be a mosaic: the distinctiveness of each piece creates the beauty of the whole. I think this applies to the different sounds and playing styles in the world too.
As for the broken shaper bit.... I still say that if I were able to earn a living by being invited to play solo in concert-halls all over the world, I would have no qualms at all of showing off the equipment I use to get there...... just a thought.
Robin Tropper
M.A.Sc., B.Mus., B.Ed.
http://RobinDesHautbois.blogspot.ca/music
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