Oboes Quotes
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And that unusual squawking sound is actually the mating call of the the rare...oh, it's just an oboe player.
Conductors do not know how the oboe does its work, but they know what the oboe should contribute.
How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound?
I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.
It might work with one orchestra, and the next orchestra - the oboe player might not get it. It's different every time, but some of the orchestras do end up enjoying it and having a great time.
Every orchestra is different. Sometimes, you're blown away by a particular musician. If I'm playing the Brahms concerto, it's crucial to have a great oboe player, because we work in tandem.
One other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I have not kept this up after 1969.