The oboe, a long reedy apparatus, is an overlooked member of the woodwind family. Yet it’s the instrument that the rest of the orchestra tune themselves to. Described by the son of Jean de Vergie, an ...

It’s not so common for a player to rise so smoothly up the ranks of American orchestras. Yet oboist Scott Bell, a former Hartford Symphony musician who now plays with the coveted Pittsburgh Symphony, ...

During Julie Andrews’ twirl around a mountain meadow, the hills are alive with the sound of a Camas musician and about 70 orchestra mates. We all know the scene. And many of the following songs are so ...

Orchestral opposites, the lilting oboe and sonorous bassoon have been linked inextricably for centuries by merely the slimmest of bonds: a double-layered sliver of bamboo that allows the instruments ...

Eds. recorded: American Composers Alliance (1st work); Seesaw Music (2nd work); McGinnis & Marx (3rd work). Performer(s): James Ostryniec, oboe ; Randall Hodgkinson, piano. Production notes: Recorded ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) – On Saturday, November 17, the Louisville Orchestra will play Richard Strauss’s Oboe Concerto. The composition—one of Strauss’s last—was written at the request of John de ...

George Frideric Handel; Roland Douatte; Georg Philipp Telemann; Helmut Mu.ller-Bru.hl; Gu.nther Passin; Collegium musicum de Paris.; Ko.lner Kammerorchester. 101 ...

Heinz Holliger–arguably the finest oboe virtuoso on the concert circuit today–made his Chicago Symphony debut Thursday night at Ravinia in a fashion that handsomely lived up to expectations, and then ...

PEEKSKILL - Paul Laubin, eyes focused like lasers on a recent afternoon, hand-turns a tool to make one of the silvery keys that will get attached to one of the world’s finest oboes. An oboist uses ...

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