Author: Bobo
Date: 2008-02-28 20:58
Howard, those artistic differences are what makes the oboe world go round I guess! I found it quite beautiful myself, I'll have to listen again to see what you mean by the out of tune parts..anyway, Stacy uses a very diaphragm driven vibrato, which maybe accounts for the full belly shake. As to the politics, my instinct is to agree with you, there's a fine line between facilitating a diplomatic opening and legitimizing a brutal dictator. I wonder, though, how many of the musicians really think it's the latter. Most musicians I know are very liberal and tend to view this kind of diplomacy as the fullfillment of art as a transcendent human universal language. Anyway, even if they think it's disgusting, they probably wouldn't dare dissent from the NYPO brass in public. Is your view common in Singapore?
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