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January 30, 2011 in News
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Albrecht Mayer – Schumann Three Romances
December 31, 2010 in Videos
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Figuring Out What Bach Wanted
December 1, 2010 in Articles
This is an older article I starred in Google Reader. From the Wall Street Journal:
Gonzalo Ruiz is always on the lookout for another piece to add to his repertoire. Because he’d already mastered most of the finest Baroque music composed for oboe, Mr. Ruiz—a faculty member at New York’s Juilliard School and one of today’s most sought-after woodwind soloists—decided to look through J.S. Bach’s music for pieces originally featuring other instruments to transcribe into new versions showcasing his oboe. In the flexible practices of the 18th century, flutes were often substituted for oboes—Mozart himself once tried to pass off a rewritten oboe concerto as a “new” flute concerto—so Mr. Ruiz turned to Bach’s flute literature, which led him directly to one of the most famous flute-centric works in classical music, “Orchestral Suite No. 2.” How would it sound, he wondered, if transposed to an oboe-friendlier key?
Great read.
by ericdano
Goossen’s Concerto Backgrounds
May 1, 2010 in Sheet Music
I was really surprised that the Goossen’s Concerto was not out in some sort of Music Minus One format. Or in smart music. Or…..anywhere. So, I did my own version. There are some drum clicks to sorta cue you in to when you are supposed to come in on one file, and the other is the same except minus the drum clicks.
Enjoy.
Goossen's Concerto Piano Part (with drum clicks) (11.9 MiB, 17 hits)
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Goossen's Concerto Piano Part (without drum clicks) (11.0 MiB, 12 hits)
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UPDATE 05/15/10: There was some measure missing before H in the original backgrounds. That has been fixed. Enjoy.
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Bolling Suite 2 For Oboe
August 29, 2009 in Articles
The second Bolling suite, re-arranged for Oboe.
Affectueuse (82.4 KiB, 52 hits)
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Amoureuse (106.2 KiB, 29 hits)
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Entr Amis (145.5 KiB, 31 hits)
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Espiegle (164.4 KiB, 29 hits)
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Intime (104.6 KiB, 26 hits)
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Jazzy (135.1 KiB, 61 hits)
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Pastorale (144.6 KiB, 25 hits)
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Bolling Suite For….Oboe?
January 10, 2009 in Sheet Music
The Bolling Suite for flute…..modified for Oboe. Enjoy.
Baroque And Blue (126.7 KiB, 98 hits)
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Irlandaise (63.9 KiB, 54 hits)
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Irlandaise (English Horn) (66.3 KiB, 26 hits)
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Javanaise (120.3 KiB, 49 hits)
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Sentimentale (106.5 KiB, 50 hits)
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Versatile (113.2 KiB, 43 hits)
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Versatile (105.1 KiB, 25 hits)
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Veloce (103.4 KiB, 34 hits)
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Fugace (105.4 KiB, 37 hits)
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Coltrane Solos For Oboe
June 21, 2008 in Sheet Music
Ok, these are some transposed versions of Coltrane solos that work for Oboe. Enjoy.
Blue Train - John Coltrane (129.5 KiB, 158 hits)
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Countdown - John Coltrane (110.9 KiB, 87 hits)
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Giant Steps - John Coltrane (156.9 KiB, 87 hits)
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Zinn Practice Regimen For Oboe
June 21, 2008 in Sheet Music
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Holcombe Jazz Flute Concerto…..for Oboe
June 19, 2008 in Articles
Sadly, there is like NOTHING out there for Jazz Oboe. So, I took on a task of transposing and rearranging Bill Holcombe’s Jazz Flute Concerto to work for Oboe. Seems to work out fairly well. The only thing that sorta sucks is that I only have a TAPE of the backgrounds and the piece. When I transfered it to digital, I guess the tape player was slower and caused the whole recording to be about 9 cents flat. So, a little bump in the Amazing Slowdowner fixed that.
But still, it’s TAPE. It’s all stuffy sounding. I searched Fluteworld.com for a CD version of the Concerto, but they seem not to have it anymore (any version).
Bill Holcombe is an amazing guy. He is like a billion years old, and plays the snot out of flute, clarinet and saxophone. Dunno about Oboe, but he probably could hang on that too.
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Orchestra TOO LOUD
April 23, 2008 in Articles
This is from a NY Times article:
No Fortissimo? Symphony Told to Keep It Down
By SARAH LYALL
LONDON — They had rehearsed the piece only once, but already the
musicians at the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra were suffering. Their
ears were ringing. Heads throbbed.
Tests showed that the average noise level in the orchestra during the
piece, “State of Siege,” by the composer Dror Feiler, was 97.4 decibels,
just below the level of a pneumatic drill and a violation of new
European noise-at-work limits. Playing more softly or wearing
noise-muffling headphones were rejected as unworkable.
So instead of having its world premiere on April 4, the piece was
dropped. “I had no choice,” said Trygve Nordwall, the orchestra’s
manager. “The decision was not made artistically; it was made for the
protection of the players.”
Wow. 97 is waaaaay too loud for anyone.
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