Volume 2, Issue 2
Text Box: pects of oboe performance. Past presenters/topics include Dan Stolper, Artistry Through Etudes; Jennifer Paull and The Amoris Consort, The Instruments of the Oboe Family; Mark Chudnow, Secrets of Oboe Making; Barbara Conable, What Every Oboist Needs to Know about the Body!", Stephen Caplan, Contemporary Oboe Techniques, and many others. The schedule for this day-long event includes a solo master class, a brief instrument repair and maintenance session, ensemble playing, dinner and an evening Text Box: recital featuring all workshop participants.  The fee is $75 and includes evening meal, Seminar T-shirt, accompanist (if needed), and minor repairs by our Seminar repair technician. Seminar sponsors Mark Chudnow and Jones Double Reed also have products available for purchase at the reception following the evening recital.  For further information/applications contact Seminar Director Victoria Racz at 1-888-627-8788, ext. 3 or via e-mail at info@oregonchamberplayers.org Text Box: MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE U MTSU Double Reed Day February 12, 2005 - 9:00am - 5:00pm Music Hall of Wright Music Building on the MTSU campus. E-mail questions to: tmusselm@mtsu.edu or call (615)898-2493 Northwest Oboe Seminar Portland, Oregon, August 20, 2005 The annual Northwest Oboe Seminar is designed for intermediate through advanced oboists and is devoted to all asText Box: Arundo donax, also know to reed players simply as “cane” must be properly harvested and dried to be of any use to musicians. Unfortunately, unless you have your own cane field in your backyard, an oboist has to depend on the supplier or grower to do this. If the harvesting and drying is not done correctly, you might end up with green cane or cane that, for one reason or another, is disagreeable to reedmaking. Lengths of cane should be harvested after the winter solstice (Dec 21), not for any mystical reason but since that is when the days are shortest and the sap is down in the Arundo donax plant. The stalks are Text Box: then allowed to dry vertically for three months before being cut into 3-4 foot lengths and dried horizontally for another three months. The cane is then husked and dried two weeks to two months, varying by heat and sun and shade conditions. There are different schools of thought as to when to remove the husks If you happen to have some cane that is a bit green, exposure to sunlight will help make the cane useable for reeds. The reason tube cane darkens in color and also hardens is because of UV rays; basically "sun-tanning" your cane. Just lay the cane in a window with a sun exposure (turn so both sides get tanned). Placing your cane in the oven or under Text Box: heat lamps will not produce the desired effect, unless you just want to cook your cane a little. What causes the hardening and "pigmentation" of the cane, is a chemical change caused by UV rays. You can also put your cane under grow lamps (UV rays). The cane left under the UV lamps will change color and become much denser, becoming eminently more useable for reeds. Text Box: (Preliminary CD may be required.) Julie Haight, Orchestra Personnel Mgr. 1111 Nicollet Mall Minneapolis, Minnesota 55403 http://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/new_home/index.cfm audition@mnorch.org Fax: 612-371-0838 WEST POINT BAND OBOE / ENGLISH HORN Text Box: FLORIDA ORCHESTRA ENGLISH HORN / OBOE Resumes Due: Dec 27, 2004 Audition: Jan 17-18, 2005 P.O. Box 23688 Tampa, Florida 33623 http://www.floridaorchestra.org MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL OBOE Preliminary Audition: Jan 27, 2005 Final Audition: Jan 31, 2005 Text Box: Audition Packet Due: December 15, 2004 (Resume, recent full-length photo and high-quality recording, [CD preferred] less than 6 mos. old) United States Military Academy Band Audition 685 Hardee Place West Point, NY 10996 (845) 938-3249 http://www.usma.edu/band

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