Author: lucyw
Date: 2007-01-14 17:27
Bobo said " So, i guess I agree that we should treasure the variety of sounds that results from this evolution, even if we don't find them all equally agreeable to listen to!"
That's exactly what I was saying. Yes! Let's treasure them all.
One other point - we have discussed the oboe sound as having evolved, and we have discussed the oboe sound as it fits into the orchestra...now consider this. Other instruments have also evolved, yes? And every oboist sitting in every orchestra has told their sound with the sound of the orchestra that they're performing with. (You can see where I'm going with this.) So, the oboist must evolve along with the rest of the musicians (in the orchestra) as they, too, evolve because they are all producing the music together as a team.
Case in point, a large number of USA oboists use a Loree oboe because that's the sound that fits in with their orchestras at this point. European oboists use Howarths, and other brands for the same reason. Different sounds require different brands of oboes, different reed scrapes, etc.
I think that all of these great oboists that we have been talking about have done an excellent job of keeping their ears open and tweaking their sounds to evolve with the orchestras that they were playing with. Listen to some old clarinet recordings sometime and look at how the clarinets have changed. It may not be as huge of a change as the oboe because the oboe seems to have a larger range of sounds available than other instruments (or it seems that way to me).
Also, then we should look at the great orchestra conductors....what were they asking of their orchestras over the last 100 years??? How did what they wanted from the musicians change??? Conductors, and the sounds that they wanted to hear have also evolved - a lot!
It's all a group effort!!
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