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Author: LoreeoboeNeh
Date: 2008-01-12 02:51
HI BBoarders,
I have recently posted a video of me playing english horn on youtube. I plan on posting more videos in the future. I plan on playing both oboe and EH and recording some orchestral excerpts as well as solo peices. Tell me what you guys think either by commenting or emailing me at Bmwski0507@aol.com. Here is the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfSPHbjCF_A
Bryan M. Walker
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Author: Dutchy
Date: 2008-01-12 15:17
That's lovely. How long have you been playing?
The Schumann is lovely, too. I'd like to hear how they sound with the accompaniment; you could get a CD from the library or something, and play along with it?
One teensy quibble on the Schumann--I have never been a big fan of lots of body english whilst playing, I think it distracts from the music just a bit, but then I'm just Your Mom Playing The Oboe Up In Her Bedroom, so don't mind me. ![[grin]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie5.gif)
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Author: LoreeoboeNeh
Date: 2008-01-12 15:49
I have been playing oboe for about 4 years, I started when i was in 8th grade. Now I'm majorly playing the "catch up" game to those who have been play alot longer then I. I have some music minus one stuff that I'll work on and put up. I know I do move around alot, I really cant help It. Im glad you enjoyed it.
Check back either tonight or tomorrow. I play on posting the oboe solo in Scheherazade and the EH solo "the New World".
Bryan Walker
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2008-01-12 16:23
Bryan, have you got Geoff Browne's book - 'The Art of Cor Anglais'?
I can thoroughly recommend it if you haven't as it carries several major cor solos from the orchestral repertoire, and an essay on each of them. There's even a chapter on European U-scrape reeds in there.
Keep up the good work, you're already making a great sound (with plenty of depth of tone from what I can hear). Would you consider specialising on cor? I know it only gets a few pieces in most concerts (though they are usually important), but I think it'll be worth your while being known as a cor specialist to be called on by orchestras to do major works with important cor parts.
Too many oboe players I know of don't want to go near cor and don't give it the time or effort it deserves (or even attempt to make a good sound), but it is a different instrument with it's own character and needs to be played in a different way to create the specific effect or mood the composer wants (though it does tend to get type-cast as being lonely, melancholy, dark, serious, etc.).
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: LoreeoboeNeh
Date: 2008-01-12 17:19
I do have the book you are talking about. Im not really sure if i want to do music performance. I've heard its a hard way to make a living, but I have a year or so to think about it.
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Author: sylvangale
Date: 2008-01-13 09:12
You have a nice tone on English Horn. The only things that I can think of is to restrain/control your vibrato and be conscious of a tendency to go flat at the end of a phrase.
♫ Stephen K.
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