Thursday, June 17, 2010

oboe awesomeness

Last Thursday I put on a recital for my five oboe students. It was a fairly relaxed affair, with mostly just parents there to watch. Each student performed one solo and my older students and I performed a duet and trio. At the end, all five oboists and me on english horn played a Beatles medley I arranged. This was the first and only time we had played it all together, so it was by no means perfect--in fact, we had to restart Eleanor Rigby since we were in different keys. So, besides some wrong entrances and notes, it turned out OK. I wish we had time to do it again, but, alas, it was not to be.

Five oboes/one english horn+The Bea'les=AWESOMENESS