Word: oboist
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...adagio, but it was a feat of poise. The next day, 500 violinists came for Silverstein's master class, some from hundreds of miles away. Only the tuba (ten) and the harp (20) drew fewer than 50 people. In all the studios the air was thick with concentration. Oboist Ralph Gomberg counseled one jittery student: "You don't hear the notes if you play it too fast." Flutist Senwick Smith used one phrase in a piece called The Flute of Pan to try to loose some spontaneity in his cautious players. "Do you know...
...houselights dimmed in Detroits Cobo Hall last week, the concertmaster signaled for the oboist's A, and the strings and woodwinds went about the squeaky business of tuning up. Then like something out of an old Esther Williams spectacular, Conductor Godfrey Salmon rose 14 feet in the air atop a hydraulic podium. Silence reigned for a good second or two before the cries came from the audience: "Rock 'n' roll!" "Get it on!" "It's boogie time...
Peggy Pearson, oboist and a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, will present a Recital of Solo Works for Oboe as part of the Radcliffe Institute Colloquia Series in their Colloquium Room at 4 pm. The recital will be followed at 5:30 by wine and cheese. In the room the women will come and go talking of not Michaelangelo but oboe...
...time for fuss, and the atmosphere is usually very businesslike. Though obviously still still angry over the Logan-Colonnade affair, Rostropovich loosed the atmosphere with his antics. At one point in the concerto's slow movement, the oboe and the solo cello join in a singing contrapuntal duet. The oboist was playing too loudly for Rostropovich's taste, and so he stopped playing, turned around, and, shaking his index finger, abruptly accused and convicted the offender. "Are you the cause of this?" Rostropovich mockingly sneered. The wind players laughed, and Rostropovich grinned like a satisfied child...
...work in a coat and tie," he says. Adds Singer Marilyn Home: "He must have 50 colors of the same sweater." If he needs to dress formally, Levine can dash home in ten minutes to change at the West Side apartnient he shares with his girl friend, an oboist. He is a man in a major-key mood, and he is convinced that his presence-he will conduct two to four performances a week for half of each season-will make a difference in the Met's night-by-night standard. "God endowed me very well with a good...