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2 unusual facts about Oboe


OBOE

Off-by-one error (OBOE), a type of computer programming or mathematical error

The Chelsea Symphony

The concert cycle featured conductors Geoffrey Robson and Ben Rous; soloists Adam Hollander (Oboe) and Hugo Moreno (Trumpet); and composer Ryan Chase.


Alternate-side parking

In The Order of the Stick, goblins allegedly invented alternate-side parking, in addition to the oboe and guacamole, thus securing their place among the damned.

Arve Moen Bergset

Stephen Frost: Bassoon Concerto; Oboe Concerto; The Lesson (2000 – soloist as classical singer at the Lesson) med Bornemouth Symphony Orchestra and conductor Tony Harrison

Beth Patterson

A native of Lafayette, Louisiana, Patterson began her professional career in her teens as a classical oboist and a Cajun bass player.

Boudewijn Buckinx

In 1968 he attended Stockhausen’s composition studio in Darmstadt and participated in the composition of Stockhausen’s Musik für ein Haus, contributing a quintet for flute, oboe, bass clarinet, bassoon, and cello titled Atoom (Ritzel 1970, 13, 60–61; Iddon 2004, 89).

Bruce Haynes

After studying the modern oboe with Raymond Dusté and John de Lancie, Haynes moved to Holland where he studied early music performance from 1964 to 1967 with Frans Brüggen and Gustav Leonhardt at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.

Capricorn Concerto

Julius Baker (flute); Mitch Miller (oboe); Harry Freistadt (trumpet); Saidenberg Little Symphony; Daniel Saidenberg, cond.

Louise DiTullio (flute); Allan Vogel (oboe); Anthony Plog (trumpet,); Pacific Symphony Orchestra; Keith Clark, cond.

CBC Summer Symphonies

Artists featured included the Canadian Brass, Colette Boky (vocalist), Philippe Djokic (violin), Monica Gaylord (piano), Jon Peterson (oboe), Marie-Claire Seguin (vocalist) and Richard Turner (harp).

Charles Martin Loeffler

His best-known works include the symphonic poems La Mort de Tintagiles (after Maeterlinck), La Bonne Chanson (after Verlaine), A Pagan Poem (after Virgil), and Memories of My Childhood (Life in a Russian Village), as well as the song-cycle Five Irish Fantasies (to words by W. B. Yeats and Heffernan), and the chamber works Music for Four String Instruments and Two Rhapsodies for oboe, viola and piano.

Crystal Records

His main oboe teacher for six years was Bert Gassman – former principal of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and former student himself of Marcel Tabuteau.

David Reichenberg

He began his oboe studies with Dr Myron E. Russell of the University of Northern Iowa.

Double reed

The construction of double reeds for the oboe family of instruments is similar in principle: like the bassoon's reeds, they consist of two pieces of Arundo donax cane fastened together with an opening at the tip.

Frédéric Chalon

He was the son of a violinist who played at the Opéra of Paris, and about 1801 he became a flutist and oboist at the Théâtre Feydeau and Théâtre de l'Opéra Comique to 1821.

Fumiaki Miyamoto

Miyamoto started his oboe lesson at Toho Gakuen High School with Seizo Suzuki, and began his worldwide career at the age of 18, when he moved to Germany to study under Helmut Winschermann.

Gregory Mertl

Previously his music has reached audiences in France, at the Festival du Moulin d’Andé and the France Musique radio station, Belgium, where he placed third at the Harelbeke International Wind Ensemble Composition Competition (2004), and the Czech Republic, where he was featured composer of the Ostrava Oboe Festival in both 2005 and 2009.

Gunnar Johansen

As a composer he was also prolific with a catalogue of nearly 750 compositions in various forms: 31 piano sonatas, three piano concertos, three violin sonatas, a large 1937 work for orchestra (Variations, Disguises, and Fugue, on a Merry Theme of Cyrus McCormick), along with works for string quartet, oboe, and vocal ensembles.

Han de Vries

Bach: Arias from Cantatas for Soprano, Oboe and B.C., Elly Ameling, EMI 1270581 LP, 1983.

He has made many recordings, one of which (of the oboe sonatas of Schumann, Bartók, Ben Haim, Poulenc and Shinohara with pianist Rudolf Jansen) won an Edison Award in 1973.

If You Leave...

For the recording sessions, McEvoy recruited the talents of Grammy award-winning songwriter Jimmy Smyth on guitar, keyboard player James Delaney, bassists Paul Moore, Eoghan O’Neill, and drummer Des Lacey, with special guests Brian Connor on piano and David Agnew on oboe.

Jan Tausinger

Hukvaldský nonet (Hukvaldy Nonet) for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, violin, viola, cello and double bass (1974)

Jennifer Paull

A further CD of the Telemann Oboe d'Amore Concerto in A Major was recorded (1997) with the Craiova "Oltenia" Philarmonic Orchestra under Michel Barras, for the Association François-Xavier Bagnoud.

Joël-François Durand

BBC Symphony Orchestra - London Sinfonietta - Gareth Hulse (oboe) - Paul Silverthorne (viola) - Hans-Ola Ericsson (organ)

José Pablo Moncayo

Among these are works like Amatzinac for flute and string quartet (1935); his Symphony (1944); Sinfonietta (1945); Homenaje a Cervantes for two oboes and string orchestra (1947); his opera La Mulata de Córdoba (1948); Tierra de Temporal (1949); Muros Verdes for piano solo (1951); Bosques (1954); and the ballet Tierra (1958).

Joseph Horovitz

His works include 16 ballets, including Alice in Wonderland (1953), 2 one-act operas (The Dumb Wife, libretto Peter Shaffer; Gentlemen’s Island, libretto Gordon Snell), and concertos for violin, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, euphonium, tuba and percussion, as well as a popular and often performed jazz concerto for harpsichord or piano.

Karl Hoschna

Hoschna was born on 16 August 1876 in Kuschwarda, Bohemia, and educated in Austria at the Vienna Conservatory of Music, specializing in the oboe.

Luc Grethen

There he studied composition, orchestration and conducting at the capital conservatory, as well as oboe and English horn at the Strasbourg and Mons (Belgium) conservatories.

Lucas Macías Navarro

Lucas Macías Navarro (born in Valverde del Camino, Huelva, August 11, 1978) is a Spanish oboist.

Malcolm Messiter

Messiter began playing the oboe at the age of 15 whilst a student at Bryanston School in Blandford Forum, Dorset.

Manuel Galduf

Galduf studied at the Valencia Musical University School (Orchestra musical direction, composition, violin, piano and oboe) and undertook postgraduate education with Volker Wangenheim (German conductor) and Igor Markevitch (Ukrainian conductor).

Missa Salisburgensis à 53 voci

Choro III: 4 Flauti, 2 Oboi, 2 Clarini* (the oboe parts may have been added later; both parts appear to have been simply copied from the Flauto I and Flauto II lines, and there are no oboe solos in the entire Mass)

Nicholas Daniel

In 2004, he was named Professor of Oboe at the Musikhochschule in Trossingen, Germany.

Nightswimming

"Nightswimming" is a ballad featuring singer Michael Stipe accompanied only by bassist Mike Mills on piano, a string arrangement by former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones, and a prominent oboe by Deborah Workman in the latter part of the piece.

Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi secundum Joannem

The alto and bass voices and oboe and bassoon are always M-voices (Hillier's coinage, referring to the melody voice in a tintinnabuli configuration); the soprano and tenor voices and violin and cello are always T-voices (again, Hillier's coinage referring to the harmonizing voice).

Piccolo heckelphone

A variant of the heckelphone, the piccolo heckelphone was intended to add power to the very highest woodwind register of the late Romantic orchestra, providing a full and rich oboe-like sound well into the sopranino range.

Pineapple Poll

Mackerras knew the Savoy Operas well, as he had played oboe in a pit orchestra in Sydney, where all of the extant Gilbert and Sullivan operas were played except for Utopia Limited and The Grand Duke, and those operas are not represented in Pineapple Poll.

RAF Trimingham

Oboe worked using two stations at different and well-separated locations in England to transmit a signal to a Mosquito Pathfinder bomber carrying a radio transponder.

Rob du Bois

The two wind quintets (Chants en contrepoints from 1962 and Réflexions sur le jour où Pérotin le Grand ressuscitera from 1969) were both written for the Danzi Quintet, and Bois also wrote solo pieces for some of the members of this well-known ensemble: flutist Frans Vester (Muziek for solo flute, 1961), oboist Koen van Slogteren (Beams, for oboe and piano, 1979), and clarinetist Piet Honingh (Vertiges, 1987).

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra

1978 – The Creatures of Prometheus: David Zinman, conductor; Eileen Malone, harp; Samuel Cristler, cello; Michael Webster, corno di bassetto; Robert Sprenkle, oboe.

Rotary Wind Quintet

It was first performed by musikFabrik (Helen Bledsoe, flute, Peter Veale, oboe, Nina Janßen, clarinet, Jan Babinec, horn, and Alban Wesley, bassoon) on 25 October 1997 at a meeting of the club held at the Schloss Dyck in Jüchen in the Rhein-Kreis Neuss (Stockhausen 1998).

Roy Carter

He joined the London Symphony Orchestra as Co-Principal Oboe in 1986 and was appointed to Principal Oboe in 1988, staying for almost twenty years before deciding to move to the Northern Sinfonia as Principal Oboe in late 2005.

Sandor Harmati

On 19 September 1924, at the 7th Berkshire Festival of Chamber Music, the Lenox Quartet took part in the first performance of La Belle Dame sans Merci, Wallingford Riegger's setting of John Keats' poem, for two sopranos, contralto, tenor, violin, viola, cello, double bass, oboe (English horn), clarinet and French horn.

Standard Telecommunication Laboratories

Another famous name associated with STL is Alec Reeves, previously famous for inventing Pulse Code Modulation while working at the Paris labs of the parent company ITT in 1938, and for his invention of the wartime bomber navigation system OBOE.

Terence MacDonagh

From 1945 to 1978 MacDonagh was professor of oboe at the Royal College of Music; his students included Edwin Roxburgh, John Warrack, Neil Black, Roy Carter and Anthony Camden.

Thomas Oboe Lee

Thomas Oboe Lee (born September 5, 1945 Beijing, China) is a Chinese American composer.

Tony Campise

He studied flute and oboe extensively with Byron and Barbara Hester in the 1960s; most notably he studied flute with Julius Baker in New York during the late 1960s in hopes of becoming a classical flutist.

Waltham Symphony Orchestra

The orchestra had its inaugural concert on May 10, 2008, at the Kennedy Middle School Auditorium in Waltham, with a program featuring works by Mozart ("Così fan tutte Overture"), Daniel-Lesur ("Nocturne for Oboe and orchestra"), D'Indy ("Fantaisie on French popular Themes"), Ravel ("Mother Goose Suite") and Brahms ("Symphony No 3 in F Major, Op. 90").

Woodwind quartet

Tadeusz Baird (1928-1981), Divertimento for flute, oboe, clarinet & bassoon (1956)


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