The oboe's a horn made of wood. I'd play you a tune if I could, But the reeds are a pain, And… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) is now fourteen, and, while he gives little sign of doing what Lord Rochester planned to do at… — Anthony Lane Copy Share Image
And that unusual squawking sound is actually the mating call of the the rare...oh, it's just an oboe player. — Steve Irwin Copy Share Image
Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute,… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
But the stuff that I do is more like all the comic roles like in The Merry Widow and Die Fledermaus and… — Jason Graae Copy Share Image
All music is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments. It is not the violins and the cornets-it… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I guess I just look at talent as a very subjective thing. I mean, if you never tried playing an oboe, how… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image
When you play the oboe, the flute or other wind instruments, there is something between you and the breath; there is the… — Michala Petri Copy Share Image
For forty years I have play the oboe, and still I never know what is coming out. It is a perpetual anxiety.… — Marcel Tabuteau Copy Share Image
Conductors do not know how the oboe does its work, but they know what the oboe should contribute. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Certain voices hold this odd pull on our heartstrings. They are like sad oboes or something, something that makes you want to… — Jonathan Goldstein Copy Share Image
How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score, tell just how that voicing of dissonant… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
If you take a violin, you can make it sound 50 different ways. Not just pizzicato and played by the bow, but… — John Corigliano Copy Share Image
Every orchestra is different. Sometimes, you're blown away by a particular musician. If I'm playing the Brahms concerto, it's crucial to have… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
It might work with one orchestra, and the next orchestra - the oboe player might not get it. It's different every time,… — Ian Anderson Copy Share Image
