Weiss graduated from University High School and briefly took classes at USC and UCLA before being hired in 1965 to play oboe in the touring Metropolitan Opera National Company.

The iconic sound of an orchestra tuning is highly recognizable, even for those who've never set foot in a concert hall. Many ...

Oboe playing, like bird watching and taffy pulling, is a passion that seems to run in families. The earliest famous oboe clan was that of Frenchman Jean Philidor, who played at the court of Louis ...

The oboe is officially one of the most difficult instruments to play. Oboists, we feel for you: and not just because of the double-reed misery, the duck noises, the tuning issues and Jeremy Irons ...

I have played the oboe for nearly 6 years now and love it. I play in a concert band and you get all the great tunes, but without any of the hard slog the clarinets and flutes have to do! There's also ...

If you play the oboe seriously, ... Besides being ridiculously fragile, reeds are also sensitive to humidity, which on a soggy night can turn an orchestral woodwind section into a squawkfest.

Oboists have a reputation for being odd. A durable myth holds that blowing air through a double reed into a narrow tube puts undue pressure on the brain. (I played oboe as a kid, and I may not ...

Only 11 musicians around the country were selected as winners of the 2020 Yamaha Young Performing Artist Competition. Oboe player and Air Academy High School graduate Alec Chai is one of them. The ...

Shannon Murphy could have chosen any musical instrument she wanted, but the desire to be different prompted her to pick the oboe, a double-reed instrument considered one of the most difficult to pl… ...

Robert M. Mayer, 83, played the oboe and the English horn for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1931 to 1956. A resident of St. Petersburg, Fla., after retiring in 1976, he died March 9 in ...

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