Word: oboist
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Vaughn Williams: Concerto for Oboe and Strings (Mitchell Miller, oboist, with the Saidenberg Little Symphony, Daniel Saidenberg conducting; Mercury, 5 sides). England's Ralph Vaughn Williams composed this well-made, sweetly pastoral music during World War II. Vaughn Williams (with the expert help of Soloist Miller) makes even five sides of oboe pleasant to take. Performance: good. Recording: good...
...Hospital Suite was also written by a doctor: Philadelphia's Dr. Herman M. Parris. Manhattan's 70-piece Doctors' Orchestral Society had its usual professional troubles rehearsing it: the oboist-obstetrician turned up late the evening he delivered three babies; the clarinetists and violinists were occasionally called out on emergencies...
...first the skeptics said, as Samuel Johnson said of a dog walking on his hind legs: "It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all." In Zurich, an oboist tested Pierino by deliberately playing a false note during rehearsal. The bambino stopped the orchestra, sternly told the oboist to get back on the track...
They finally got to Brussels and put on a concert at the famed Palais des Beaux-Arts-whereupon Oboist Evelyn Rothwell (in private life Mrs. John Barbirolli) fell off the Beaux-Arts' modernistic stage and injured her arm so badly she couldn't play. Undaunted, Conductor Barbirolli led his forces into the teeth of the German advance, twice a day played items like Wagner's Rienzi Overture and Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik for cheering servicemen at Eindhoven and Ghent, and squeezed in a few extra concerts for Belgian civilians. At week...
...oboist's technique begins long before he puts his instrument to his mouth. For Tabuteau, it begins in his medieval-looking fourth-floor workshop. There he whittles to perfection the paper-thin, cigaret-shaped reeds on whose shaping and adjustment oboe tone heavily depends. A flawed reed can make even the best playing sound like a tin horn. Tabuteau spends hours every day scraping away with a razorlike knife...