Author: jamesoboe
Date: 2008-06-13 09:19
Hi Mark
it's always nice when someone sees eye to eye with ones point of view! That's very interesting what you say about Werner Herbers' reaction to Emanuel Abbuhl's playing, and, I'm sure, a not untypical reaction of many of us at one time or another. When I was studying in Karlsruhe, Germany, with Thomas Indermuhle, I was fortunate to have a percentage of my lessons with Emanuel Abbuhl, also. The majority opinion of his playing in my class was that we liked his tone very much. He's a great player. I don't know if you realise, but he's just recently been appointed principal oboe of the London Symphony Orchestra, one of our best orchestras, so he's doing alright for himself. Differences of approach are good and healthy and can lead us in exciting new directions. But dogma is always dogma and often just leads to a brick wall. Fortunately, the oboe is a tricky, untrustworthy beast, and forces us to come up with all sorts of different solutions to its challenges. This in turn helps keep it fresh and moving forward.
By the way, I was recently on tour in Holland with my orchestra and had to play the cor solo from Symphonie Fantastique about ten times all over the country. Particularly daunting was the concert in Rotterdam in 'De Doelen', the concert hall, there. It was sold out to the rafters and must seat well over a thousand. The audience surrounds the stage in front, at the sides, and behind, also. Scary! Anyway, I had a great time there and found the Dutch to be a very friendly people. Everyone speaks such brilliant English in Holland. A clever nation!
Best wishes
James
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