Word: oboist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...passagework and poor intonation. On the whole, the woodwinds came off better than the strings, though everyone seemed to be working hard. Marilyn Malpass was a model concert-mistress, at all times attentive to the conductor and heroically attempting to bring the rest of the section along with her. Oboist Carl Schlaikjer was shaky in the second movement, but recovered by the sixth and spun out some of the most mellifluous, well-shaped line I have ever heard. To the flute, Mahler has given a number of improvisatory, melismatic solos that rank with Debussy's writing for the instrument...
...YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERTS WITH LEONARD BERNSTEIN (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). In his eighth annual Young Performers program, Lenny introduces seven young soloists-two violinists, a cellist, bassoonist, accordionist, oboist and basso...
...Telemann's E-minor Oboe Concerto. Vogel has an enormous, full sound. Although you can never cover oboes up entirely. I used to think of them as being the delicate members of the wind section. I had no idea that Sanders could ring from the sound of a single oboist. His tone was pleasant, and his technique nearly flawless. I wasn't bowled over, but his phrasing and musicianship were equally good. [I was surprised that he hadn't memorized his part.] Music of this period is very transparent. For this reason the orchestra's slightly ragged playing was noticeable...
...skill only emphasizes its relative youth: First Violinist Evgeny Smirnov is 26, while Cellist Yuly Turovsky, the youngest member, has not yet turned 25. Indeed, to look at them, Barshai's wonders could pass for young American jazzniks-especially Bassist Feodor Plyat, 26, who wears horn-rims, and Oboist Evgeny Nepalo, 27, whose lank 6 ft. 4 in. is topped by a brown crewcut. Though it prefers Bach, the group does, in fact, dig jazz. Its preference: the clean-lined cool of Erroll Garner and Dave Brubeck...
boys and girls, watch how the oboist's cheeks puff out when he does the next passage," there will be the oboist, bigger than life, in his pop-cheeked moment of glory...