Please feel free to pass this on to any opera lovers that you know.
Of course they are on Sirius too(3 a week, I think), but that isn’t free.
Also, these streams are in addition to the Saturday matinees which are on the Metropolitan Opera Radio network.
Listen LIVE here:
http://www.metoperafamily.org/stream.aspx
Check this schedule for the weekly webstream:
(I missed the first one on Sept. 27th)
http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/broadcast/template.aspx?id=12434
OCTOBER ALL TIMES EASTERN
10/5/2010      Tuesday         8:00 PM ET
Verdi: Rigoletto
Arrivabeni; Schäfer, Surguladze, Meli, Gagnidze, Silvestrelli
10/11/2010     Monday         7:00 PM ET
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (P)
Gergiev; Semenchuk, Antonenko, Balashov, Nikitin, Pape, Petrenko, Ognovenko
10/20/2010     Wednesday   8:00 PM
Puccini: La Bohème
Rizzi Brignoli; Kovalevska, Kizart, Grigolo, Capitanucci, Parks, Shenyang, Plishka
10/29/2010     Friday           8:00 PM
Donizetti: Don Pasquale (P)
Levine; Netrebko, Polenzani, Kwiecien, Del Carlo
NOVEMBER
11/4/2010       Thursday       8:00 PM
Bizet: Carmen (P)
Gardner; Cabell, Garanča, Jovanovich, Relyea
11/9/2010       Tuesday        8:00 PM
Mozart: Così fan tutte (P)  
Christie; Persson, Leonard, de Niese, Breslik, Gunn, Holzmair
11/19/2010      Friday           8:00 PM
Verdi: Il Trovatore
Armiliato; Racette, Cornetti, Álvarez, Lučić, Tsymbalyuk
11/22/2010      Monday         7:00 PM
Verdi: Don Carlo (P)
Nézet-Séguin; Poplavskaya, Smirnova, Alagna, Keenlyside, Furlanetto, Halfvarson
11/30/2010      Tuesday        8:00 PM
Bizet: Carmen
Gardner; Cabell, Garanča, Jovanovich, Relyea
DECEMBER
12/6/2010        Monday         8:00 PM
Puccini: La Fanciulla del West (P)  
Luisotti; Voigt, Giordani, Gallo
12/17/2010      Friday            8:00 PM
Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (P)
Rattle; Kožená, Palmer, Degout, Finley, White
12/21/2010      Tuesday        11:00 PM
Mozart: The Magic Flute (P)
Nielsen; Phillips, Miklósa, Thomas, Gunn, Robinson
12/31/2010       Friday           7:00 PM
Verdi: La Traviata (P)
Noseda; Poplavskaya, Polenzani, Dobber
JANUARY
1/3/2011           Monday         8:00 PM
Puccini: La Fanciulla del West 
Luisotti; Voigt, Giordani, Gallo
1/10/2011         Monday         8:00 PM
Puccini: Tosca (P)
Armiliato; Radvanovsky, Álvarez, Struckman, Plishka
1/20/2011         Thursday       8:00 PM
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (P)  
Levine; Frittoli, Vargas, Hvorostovsky, Furlanetto
1/26/2011         Wednesday   8:00 PM
Verdi: La Traviata
Noseda; Poplavskaya, Meli, Dobber
FEBRUARY
2/2/2011           Wednesday   8:00 PM
Adams: Nixon in China (P)
Adams; Kim, Kelly, Brubaker, Braun, Maddalena, Fink
2/7/2011           Monday         8:00 PM
Puccini: La Bohème
Rizzi Brignoli; Kovalevska, Phillips, Beczała, Mattei, Scheunemann, Shenyang, Plishka
 
2/16/2011         Wednesday    8:00 PM
Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride
Summers; Graham, Domingo, Groves, Hawkins
2/24/2011         Thursday        8:00 PM
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (P)
Summers; Dessay, Calleja, Tézier, Youn
MARCH
3/1/2011           Tuesday         8:00 PM
Rossini: Armida
Frizza; Fleming, Brownlee, Osborn, Siragusa, Banks, van Rensburg
3/11/2011          Friday           8:00 PM
Tchaikovsky: The Queen of Spades (P)
Nelsons; Mattila, Mumford, Zajick, Galouzine, Markov, Mattei
3/16/2011          Wednesday   8:00 PM
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Summers; Dessay, Calleja, Tézier, Youn
3/24/2011          Thursday       8:00 PM
Rossini: Le Comte Ory (P)  
Benini; Damrau, DiDonato, Resmark, Flórez, Degout, Pertusi
3/28/2011          Monday         8:00 PM
Strauss: Capriccio (P)
Davis; Fleming, Connolly, Kaiser, Braun, Larsen, Rose
APRIL
4/6/2011            Wednesday   8:00 PM
Berg: Wozzeck (P)
Levine; Meier, Skelton, Siegel, Goerne, Fink
4/14/2011          Thursday       8:30 PM
Rossini: Le Comte Ory  
Benini; Damrau, DiDonato, Resmark, Flórez, Degout, Pertusi
4/22/2011          Friday           6:30 PM
Wagner: Die Walküre (P)
Levine; Voigt, Westbroek, Blythe, Kaufmann, Terfel, König
4/27/2011          Wednesday   8:00 PM
Verdi: Il Trovatore
Levine; Radvanovsky, Zajick, Álvarez, Hvorostovsky, Kocán
MAY
5/4/2011           Wednesday    8:00 PM
Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
Walker; Royal, Oropesa, Daniels
5/10/2011         Tuesday        8:00 PM
Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos
Luisi; Urmana, Kim, DiDonato, Smith, Allen

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I hope that both of these shows will be archived, but I make no promise of it.  Watch LIVE(and hope for no technical problems) to avoid disappointment.

You need a user name and password for both sites.  It is imperative to do this for the Turku stream.  You might not need it for the medici.tv stream, but it is easy to get, so why not??

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Noon Eastern Time Vaughan Williams Concerto Takuya Takashima, Turku Philharmonic

You must obtain a username and password(you can do this now if you want), which you can do here:
http://www.e-concerthouse.com/en/log-in

After you sign in from the above link….click on “Turun Konserttitalo” beside 23.09.2010 | 19.00

You’ll be watching a live show from Turku on Thursday Sept. 23rd at NOON ET.

Takuya Takashima oboe Turku(Finland) Philharmonic, Vaughan Williams Concerto, Sept. 23

This show probably will archived.  I’ll try to find it after the broadcast.

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The Strauss will be streamed LIVE from Lyon Thursday Sept. 23rd at 2:30pm Eastern.  It may be archived. I don’t know.

http://www.medici.tv

Septembre Jeudi 23 – 20h30, 2:30pm Eastern Time
Concert d’ouverture

Richard Strauss Suite de danses d’après Couperin [32’]
Richard Strauss Concertino pour clarinette et basson [20’]
Richard Strauss Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra [33’]

Orchestre national de Lyon
François Sauzeau, clarinette
Louis-Hervé Maton, basson
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Thursday Sept. 23rd
Sept 23 Seattle Symphony 7:30pm Pacific(10:30pm ET) Prokofiev 2nd Piano Concerto, Brahms 3 Schwarz, Bronfman
Listen LIVE here:
http://www.king.org/Listen-Online/4029853

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I just happened to see this while looking at the UNT website.  I thought some of you might be interested in it. 
http://music.unt.edu/downloads/jobs/UNTCOM-jobs-324-Oboe%20job%20description.pdf

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2 LIVE VIDEOS:Thurs.Sept 23 NoonAND 2:30pmET, VWConcerto(Noon ET), Strauss Duet Concertino(2:30pm ET)
Thursday Sept. 23, 2010 will be an unprecedented(to my knowledge) day in the double reed history of concerts being streamed LIVE on the internet.  You will be able to watch a LIVE Vaughan Williams Oboe Concerto from Turku, Finland(follow my directions below) at 12 Noon Eastern Time(19:00 Finland) AND a LIVE Strauss Duett-Concertino from Lyon, France at 2:30pm Eastern(20:30 Central European Time).

I hope that both of these shows will be archived, but I make no promise of it.  Watch LIVE(and hope for no technical problems like I had on two previous streams) to avoid disappointment.  Sometimes, there is network congestion or other problems.  Even the great Berlin Philharmonic had technical problem with their first live stream of this concert season.  (I think I know why.!)

You need a user name and password for both sites.  It is imperative to do this for the Turku stream.  You might not need it for the medici.tv stream, but it is easy to get, so why not??

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Noon Eastern Time Sept. 23rd Vaughan Williams Concerto Takuya Takashima, Turku Philharmonic

You must obtain a username and password(you can do this now if you want), which you can do here:
http://www.e-concerthouse.com/en/log-in

After you sign in from the above link….click on “Turun Konserttitalo” beside “23.09.2010 | 19.00″

You’ll be watching a live show from Turku on Thursday Sept. 23rd at NOON ET.

Takuya Takashima oboe Turku(Finland) Philharmonic, Vaughan Williams Concerto, Sept. 23

This show probably will probably be archived.  I’ll try to find it after the broadcast. It may be archived here:
http://www.e-concerthouse.com/en/archive-tv
Turku PhilharmonicJonathan Stockhammer, kapellimestari
Takuya Takashima, oboeClaude Debussy: Faunin iltapäivä  (Prelude Faun)
Ralph Vaughan-Williams: Oboekonsertto
Béla Bartók: Konsertto orkesterille (Concerto for Orchestra)

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The Strauss will be streamed LIVE from Lyon Thursday Sept. 23rd at 2:30pm Eastern.  It may be archived. I don’t know.

http://www.medici.tv

Septembre Jeudi 23 – 20h30, 2:30pm Eastern Time
Concert d’ouverture

Richard Strauss Suite de danses d’après Couperin [32’]
Richard Strauss Concertino pour clarinette et basson [20’]
Richard Strauss Ainsi parlait Zarathoustra [33’]

Orchestre national de Lyon
François Sauzeau, clarinette
Louis-Hervé Maton, basson
Jun Märkl, direction
Online

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Flat Oboe Reeds Are Instant Death!

Probably the worst thing that you can do when playing the oboe is play on flat oboe reeds. This is one of the most common reed problems and it can be a bit tricky to fix. Here are some things that you might want to try out and see if they help you.

After you get the basic construction of the reed in place, for example the back of the tip and the back, clip the reed to one millimeter longer than your planned final length. For example, it your finished reed length is 70 millimeters, then clip it right away to 71 millimeters.

After it is clipped, let the reed dry out completely before working on it again.

When you come back to it, it will be very resistant, but take your time and work on the tip first to get some vibration back into it. You will probably have to scrape the back and the heart a bit. Do not make drastic differences between the thickness of the parts of the reed.

What you will find is that the reed will hold it’s pitch better.

There are more things that you can do to fix flat oboe reeds, and I will talk about them in another post.

Hope this helps!

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How To Find That Oboe Sound

We all want to have that “great” oboe sound, but sometimes it is something that seems to elude us. One of the biggest problems is define exactly what that great sound is.

Many words are used to describe the sound of the oboe.

•Light
•Dark
•Bright
•3 dimensional
•Heavy
•Reedy
•Nasal
Take your pick.

The most important aspect which determines how oboe sound develops is the sound that you have “in your ear.”

It is a very interesting thing to see when an accomplished oboist sounds the same no matter what reed he plays on.

I remember when I was younger listening to a very famous oboist pick up a student’s oboe and reed, play on it, and sound exactly the same as always. The sound seemed to come from somewhere other than just the reed. This happened several times in the section rehearsal. When I pick up my colleagues reed and oboe, I still sound like me and she sounds like her on my setup.

Most oboists develop a sound concept at an early stage of playing, mostly conforming to what they are accustomed to heating at the time. It isn’t until later that one begins to understand what is happening.

The process of “finding your sound” can take a long time, but it isn’t that difficult.

If you’re a bit confused over what you want to sound like, just take it step-by-step. Listen to some recordings of some great oboists. Try and get that oboe sound in your ear, and imitate it. We live in a very good online world. YouTube is probably the best audio resource. Go through it and you will find some great examples.

Keep in mind to be aware of what it is you like or dislike about a particular oboist’s sound. But most importantly,

Practice, practice, practice.

Tons of long tones. This is the best exercise that you can do. Always relax and let the reed vibrate. Think about bringing out the lower overtones in your sound instead of cutting out the higher ones. Always support the air column well. One thing you can try is to stand up against a wall with your back, shoulders, and head touching it completely. Play through your longtone exercises this way. It will feel really strange at first, but will get your air column opened up.

Don’t get frustrated! A good oboe sound, just like a good wine needs time to mature and develop.

It will happen.

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Enjoy

http://www.classicalpublicradio.org/site/_spoleto_audio.cfm

Go and check it out.

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http://www.marlboromusic.org/concertsandtickets_concertseason_programs.html

“My reeds are flat.
Gouge is Innoledy or RDG. Shape is RDG-1 or Caleb-1.
I start tip at 66-67 mm.
Remove bark from heart.
Remove some from back up to 61-62 mm, not too much.
In order for reed to play easy and respond to conductor wishes for low notes pp, I scrape the tip, heart.
The pitch starts to drop.
I clip, reed is too hard.
I scrape, reed is too flat.
I clip, reed is too hard.
And so on and so forth.”

This comes from Pierre. Thanks!

Well unfortunately, this is one of the most common problems that we face as oboe reed makers. Remember that everything in reed making is a matter of balance and just because you scrape a bit from the reed, doesn’t mean a pitch disaster. if the reed is consistently hard, then clipping the tip will only make that situation worse. You need to get the reed really vibrating first.

The key is not just in the tip, but the balance between the tip and the heart, through the tip to heart transition. The vibrations need to pass through easily. Make sure that the drop-off between the heart and tip is very smooth and concise, and that the tip is separated a bit more. Get the heart vibrating and don’t be afraid to take a bit more out of the back. This will allow you to clip the reed again without loosing the vibrations. Make sure that the end of the tip is thin.

Low note response is basically all about vibration, vibration, vibration. The whole reed needs to work together on this one, and remember that a dark colorful sound does not come from a hard reed. It comes from a vibrating one.

One other point, you might want to try and use a shorter tube, maybe 46 mm and see if that helps.

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