67” was conceived expressly as a symphony for children, with the different instruments of the orchestra didactically representing different characters in the story: The oboe is the duck ...

Quite a bit of the humor lay in watching the often-simultaneous goings-on in Yeargan’s two-story, six-room (if you count the staircase and landing) set – entrances and exits, doors opening, closing… ...

Given Vaughan Williams’ evident love of oboe in the work (and in his oboe concerto), Betteridge maintains its presence in the texture, played here by Bryony Middleton. He also uses clarinet ...

Riad Sattouf’s saga of his parents’ failed bicultural marriage, with its harsh depiction of life in rural Syria, has become a literary sensation. By Richard Fausset Richard Fausset reported ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — The moments Grace Maxwell shared with her grandfather over the years were “his greatest joy.” And a trip home to Wichita, Kansas, allowed the 20-year-old to be by his ...

Why Not City Missions’ hosted its second annual Candlelight Concert fundraiser at the Brant Community Church on Saturday, February 1, 2025. Inspired by the popular candlelight concerts that ...

Capperauld started taking lessons too. After the piano he took up the oboe, but he didn’t like the mouthpiece so switched to the bassoon, then the clarinet. “I was a product of free music ...

She played the saxophone, oboe and bassoon in high school and was on the sailing team in college. She loved taking ski trips out West, hiking in Hawaii and entertaining friends around the fire pit ...

The distressed Countess of Nardus Williams is wonderfully supple of tone, cleanly shaped in both her arias, matched by a lovely solo oboe, her sensuality longing for release. Mary Bevan is more ...

It turns out weather-prognosticating groundhogs were at odds with their weather assessments as Wiarton Willie predicted an early spring but Shubenacadie Sam and Punxsutawney Phil forecast six more ...