Every musician remembers their first note — for Eliana Fittante, it was on an instrument most fifth-graders can barely coax a sound from.

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Oboe playing, like bird watching and taffy pulling, is a passion that seems to run in families. The earliest famous oboe clan was that of Frenchman Jean Philidor, who played at the court of Louis XIV; ...

After playing principal oboe in the Classical Musical Festival since 2003, the organizers invited her to solo. It takes place every summer in Schloss (“castle” in German) Esterházy, this being the ...

The co-founders who sold their last startup to Spotify are working on a new project: an AI-powered educational startup called Oboe backed by a $4 million seed investment. The new company, hailing from ...

The Oboe Students of Richard Woodhams. Mr. Woodhams is currently Principal Oboe of the Philadelphia Orchestra as well as a Curtis Institute of Music graduate. He joined the faculty at Curtis in 1985.

Joe Walsh recalled his decision to start playing the oboe while he was at school, and the reason he abandoned it in favor of the guitar. The Eagles icon began on clarinet before exploring the music ...

Musicologists puzzled over a lost Ludwig van Beethoven concerto for decades, ever since the 1960s discovery of the sketch of a single movement among the composer's papers. Now, two Dutch Beethoven ...

Kathleen McGuire has worked for organisations that have received funding from Creative Victoria (State Government of Victoria), the City of Boroondara and the City of Melbourne. She has received ...

A Miami symphony oboe player died after she tumbled down a flight of stairs minutes before a season-opening concert performance, the group said. Greater Miami Symphonic Band member Janice Thomson, 62, ...

In a story reminiscent of A Fistful of Dollars (1964), a Brazilian drifter named Augusto with a terminal heart condition appears in a nameless Latin American town armed only with an oboe. The town's ...