Author: Dutchy
Date: 2010-10-23 13:27
I've seen worse, I've seen oboists gyrating, convulsing, and twitching madly. He looks fairly restrained, as these things go, very expressive actually. The theory is supposed to be that what the rest of your body is doing will affect your tone--that if you stand perfectly straight and simply pump out the notes, your tone will be wooden--but I have always suspected that it's because solo oboists learn that their audience responds to their body English, so they do a lot of the expressive swaying. It's telling, I think, that the same oboist, seated in the orchestra, doesn't seem to feel a need to sway expressively while he plays, and the lack of body english doesn't seem to affect his tone. It's all just showmanship.
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