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Author: mjfoboe
Date: 2012-07-27 17:26
Hi,
I was wondering what people are playing this summer?
I have a concert August 5th, ....
The program is the The Tender Land Suite by Copland and Rhapsody of A Theme of Paganini by Rachmaninoff.
This is a community orchestra .... 4 rehearsals and a concert ... it's a challenge.
Mark
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Author: Old Oboe
Date: 2012-07-27 23:51
I play in two community bands that play outdoor evening concerts, one for 8 weeks and one for 10 weeks. Our rehearsals start about 8 weeks ( once a week) before the season. Add to that a gig leftover from winter band and one unrehearsed outdoor concert for another group and it means about 100 mostly easy pieces to prepare. I welcome winter when I can spend time on more difficult pieces!
Linda
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Author: oboi
Date: 2012-07-28 00:39
I really wished community bands/orchestras here play in the summer, for that's when people have the most free time! Plus it's more fun taking your oboe out to rehearsals when it doesn't feel like hell has frozen over. Most community groups (and classical music concerts) vanish as soon as school ends. :( Therefore, I'm just working on my own lesson repertoire and preparing for my first solo recital. Uh oh, what have I gotten myself into! If there were more activities in the summer for people just getting back into music, I think we'd be able to recruit more younger amateur players. Since our orchestra season starts in September, even though I do get a number of inquiries from college students wanting to play, by the time 1st rehearsal happens (mid-September) they are already innundated with homework that they don't even bother coming. If we caught them in the summer, then they might get hooked and make time for a bit of music once a week.
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Author: WoodwindOz
Date: 2012-07-28 04:30
Mark, what an awesome program!
I have had a musical summer so far. I played in a summer pops orchestra and we have had two concerts. The first had a lot of John Williams works, Harry Potter, etc, but also Sorcerer's Apprentice, so that was good fun (glad I was playing flute from that one though!) The second was a USA themed concert, and we played a couple of marches (including Stars and Stripes with a piccolo section feature...yay!) and the Gould American Symphonette No. 2. I have only recently discovered the wonderment that is Gould's music - a little late to the party!
I have also played in the UIUC summer band - the 102nd season! I played oboe and cor in a lot of community-band-type pieces (My Fair Lady etc), but did gt to play EH in Lord of the Rings (de Meij - 1st movt only).
Now I'm playing Reed 1 in a production of Lucky Stiff...what a great show! And the youth theatre kids are very talented! It's a flute/picc book, with one number marked 'oboe if possible'. The director jokingly asked if I had brought my oboe. I replied, "I can if you want." He nearly fell through the floor...so now it's a flute/picc/oboe book!
In between all of that, I am working full time in the UIUC band library. It is fabulous. We are re-cataloguing, filing and shelving all 22,000 titles. There have been AA Harding's manuscript extra parts for works, which always included EH and baritone oboe or heckelphone (of which I've been told we own several of each!!) Today I found a Sousa work which had "Sousa's Band" stamped on all the parts, and the score had Sousa's signature (by his own hand) on it. He was friends with Harding and we figure he had passed on the parts to Harding to play in his ensemble. It is fascinating!
Hope everyone has a wonderful and musical rest of summer!
Rachel
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Author: ohsuzan
Date: 2012-07-29 00:11
I've spent the summer doing WW5 things. Cambiata Winds, my Greensboro-based quintet, is wending its way piecemeal this weekend to Granville, New York (our flutist has a second home there), where we are scheduled for five or six gigs over the next two weeks. If you are on Facebook, look us up and give us a "Like".
Rachel, we are playing the wonderful R.E. Sheldon arrangement of the "Pavanne" from Gould's "American Symphonette #2". Any of you WW5 types out there who don't know this piece should check it out. Oboe-heavy. Lots of fun, and universally well-received at our performances. (I am, for better or worse, old enough to remember when this piece was featured on the radio . . .)
Also doing two children's concerts with "Peter and the Wolf" as the centerpiece.
Other than those two, it's mostly run-of-the-mill pop quintet transcriptions. We do have the Barthe "Passacaille" and the Colomer "Menuet" and the Grainger "Walking Tune" on the programs, as well as three pieces arranged expressly for us by a fellow named Charlie Dana -- "Old Devil Moon," "Papa Loves Mambo," and "Pick Yourself Up".
This is the best part of being retired -- being able to take off on an adventure with the quintet for two weeks!
Susan
Did you know (I didn't until I was researching my program notes) that "Old Devil Moon" is from "Finian's Rainbow"? That seems like a stretch.
Post Edited (2012-07-29 01:01)
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Author: mjfoboe
Date: 2012-07-29 03:19
Hi,
I forgot to mention ... I played two Pops concerts earlier this July too.
I had a nice solo in the overture to HMS Pinafore.
Glad to hear everyone else is busy too.
Mark
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Author: ptarmiganfeather
Date: 2012-07-29 08:30
Nothing going on here. I am practicing in my greenhouse, new name is the Conservatory, haha. I think the tomatoes like oboe. Especially Telemann Oboe Fantasies no. 1, 2 and 3. Perhaps one day next winter the local library association will have a community music night and I will be brave enough to play some solo oboe in public. Even though our last concert was in June, our community band is off for the summer.
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Author: samovar
Date: 2012-07-29 15:17
I am about 10 months into my return to playing after 20 years and enjoying myself immensely.
Right now I am playing Oboe I for a local university's summer orchestra (mix of students + older community folks like me). Interesting and challenging program including Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (rarer Tushmalov arrangement, not Ravel), Britten's Matinees Musicales, Corigliano's Elegy for Orchestra, and a Tuba (!) concerto by Sanae Kanda.
Lots of meaty oboe solos in Britten and Pictures. Great fun, with rehearsals and the concert in a beautiful historic hall with excellent acoustics.
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Author: GoodWinds ★2017
Date: 2012-08-08 14:06
Pit orchestra for two summer musicals in Leavenworth, WA:
oboe, English horn, and clarinet. Two students at the Columbia River Music Conservatory. Prepping for an audition next month.
GoodWinds
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