The oboe, revered for its intimate and affecting sound, challenges musicians who create its beauty in ways concealed from most who love its sonorities. It’s an instrument with a history that goes back ...

Listener Karen Birch of Miami offers us a peek into the world of oboe players. To prepare to play the instrument, the double-reed mouthpiece must be prepped. It's critical to a good sound. Birch walks ...

How does an oboe make a sound? Principal oboist for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Diana Doherty, shows us what an oboe is and how it works. We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander ...

Unlike most oboists, I didn’t take up the oboe until I was about 30, after we had our first child and moved to Hingham. What terrific luck that there was a community music school, the South Shore ...

During Julie Andrews’ twirl around a mountain meadow, the hills are alive with the sound of a Camas musician and about 70 orchestra mates. We all know the scene. And many of the following songs are so ...

He invents statistical methods for helping missiles hit their targets more precisely, and she plays the oboe in symphony orchestras. Together, they hope to achieve a synthesis of techniques. Aside ...

Think of your favorite saxophone or clarinet solo. Perhaps it's a bassoon or oboe playing in your head. There's a good chance the reed in that instrument was produced from a giant cane plant grown in ...

Heinz Holliger–arguably the finest oboe virtuoso on the concert circuit today–made his Chicago Symphony debut Thursday night at Ravinia in a fashion that handsomely lived up to expectations, and then ...

William Perry Baker was introduced to the oboe in high school, and a lifelong musical romance followed. Along the way, Baker taught, mentored and amused scores of younger oboists, many of whom are now ...