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Author: WoodwindOz
Date: 2012-07-28 04:30
Mark, what an awesome program!
I have had a musical summer so far. I played in a summer pops orchestra and we have had two concerts. The first had a lot of John Williams works, Harry Potter, etc, but also Sorcerer's Apprentice, so that was good fun (glad I was playing flute from that one though!) The second was a USA themed concert, and we played a couple of marches (including Stars and Stripes with a piccolo section feature...yay!) and the Gould American Symphonette No. 2. I have only recently discovered the wonderment that is Gould's music - a little late to the party!
I have also played in the UIUC summer band - the 102nd season! I played oboe and cor in a lot of community-band-type pieces (My Fair Lady etc), but did gt to play EH in Lord of the Rings (de Meij - 1st movt only).
Now I'm playing Reed 1 in a production of Lucky Stiff...what a great show! And the youth theatre kids are very talented! It's a flute/picc book, with one number marked 'oboe if possible'. The director jokingly asked if I had brought my oboe. I replied, "I can if you want." He nearly fell through the floor...so now it's a flute/picc/oboe book!
In between all of that, I am working full time in the UIUC band library. It is fabulous. We are re-cataloguing, filing and shelving all 22,000 titles. There have been AA Harding's manuscript extra parts for works, which always included EH and baritone oboe or heckelphone (of which I've been told we own several of each!!) Today I found a Sousa work which had "Sousa's Band" stamped on all the parts, and the score had Sousa's signature (by his own hand) on it. He was friends with Harding and we figure he had passed on the parts to Harding to play in his ensemble. It is fascinating!
Hope everyone has a wonderful and musical rest of summer!
Rachel
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2012-07-28 04:30 |
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