Gene Cipriano, the always busy woodwind player who soloed on tenor sax for Tony Curtis in Some Like It Hot and recorded with everyone from Miles Davis, Rosemary Clooney and Frank Sinatra to Glen ...

(And, whomever you are sir, not a bad introduction to the oboe!) Noseda opened Tchaikovsky’s “Symphony No. 6” with glacial grace, slowly brightening its dusky bassoons, bass and violas.

Principal oboe Eduardo Sepúlveda will move to the front of the stage on Jan. 25. ... where a solo instrument provides both the bass and melody. And not only is the first phrase long, ...

The trickiest thing when learning the oboe is to produce a sound that is not reminiscent of birdlife. In my case, the phrase 'pregnant duck' was bandied around for quite a while. I took up the oboe at ...

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 ...

Graduate oboe applicant requirements. Pre-screening recordings are not required for graduate oboe applicants. Live auditions. Auditions are an important part of determining scholarship and other award ...

The oboe proves an excellent conduit for such enigmatic games. The pungency of its timbre puts the ears on alert and on edge: no one can fall into a blissful trance at an oboe recital.

By the 1800s, the size and instrumentation were much like the modern orchestra. An order was added to the tuning ritual, with each “family” of instruments taking its turn to tune with the oboe.