Showing posts with label oboe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label oboe. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Oboe Confession

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I had SOOOOOO much fun at my oboe lesson today! Kyoko can turn every little gaff or setback into a huge laughing moment. We spent the 2nd ha...
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Learning to Play; or, Two Steps Forward, One Step Back II

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I think a capacity for silliness or playfulness is important. I find that people who don't seem to have one either are miserable or tend...
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Friday, August 17, 2007

Oboe-ing in Rural France

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I haven't entirely abandoned my trusty little oboe. I'm so glad it's so portable! There was plenty of room in my carry-on bag fo...
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Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Summer Oboe Lesson: just the thing for a post-call day

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I've had mixed feelings anticipating today's lesson - dread that I would be indescribably AWFUL and my poor, patient teacher would f...
Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Box of Dreams Arrives

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I've been waiting for this package for almost a week. When the UPS truck drove up around dinner time tonight, I jumped up and down like ...
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Thursday, July 5, 2007

Brief Oboe Update

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Yes, I've been practicing even on vacation. It's hard to find a good time and place in a hotel, but I managed to practice every othe...
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Saturday, June 30, 2007

A Few Things You Should Almost Never Say to People

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"Are You NUTS?!" When I told people I was going to embark on medical school with a ten-month-old in tow, I got various versions of...
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Monday, June 18, 2007

Lesson 7

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Good lesson today! I'm improving! Kyoko will be leaving for the Colorado Music Festival , so I won't have another lesson till August...
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Thursday, June 14, 2007

Pie It's Not; or, Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

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Why, oh why, just when we seem to be making progress, do we suddenly BOMB? Yesterday's oboe lesson was so WEAK. I don't know what ha...
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Sunday, June 3, 2007

Oboe Poem while on-call

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(Disclaimer: I know that "poem" is a presumptous label. I am well aware that most of us are a far cry from W.H. Auden or Elizabeth...
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Saturday, June 2, 2007

ABC's for today

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A. I love the A played by the oboe when an orchestra tunes prior to playing. How a single note can be so moving to me is a mystery, but move...
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Wednesday, May 30, 2007

If you don't like your D, don't go to C; or, The Gift of Imperfection

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Today I had my fourth oboe lesson. I have been having trouble descending down the C scale. I'm fine till I get to E, then D, then C...I ...
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Monday, May 21, 2007

Oboe-lover's Guilt

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"Which is more important - my jacket or my book?" asked my son as I reminded him to take all his belongings out of the car when we...
Thursday, May 17, 2007

First Oboe Lessons

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I have to wonder about naysaying. Why do people do it? Is it that they're setting things up so they can say "I told you so!" l...
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