Sunday, June 2, 2013

Blog#2: There is a concert soon(Kanae)

Lately, I have been practicing the oboe every day for Mejiro Musical Festival on Sunday June 9. I will play "The Sound of Music Selections for Orchestra" then. Please watch this video. This is that music.


And I bought two reeds of oboe for this concert. Oboe's reed is expensive. These reeds cost 4,830 yen in all.

My reed case and new reeds.

Whenever I get reeds, I name those. By naming reeds, I can understand respective features of reeds (for example, this reed is off pitch, that reed has mild tone, etc). So I named these new reeds "Alexios" and "Basileios" from the right. Alexios's feature is hard tone. So I probably will not use this reed on the concert. I don't use Basileios yet. I'm looking for using this reed on today's practice.
"The Sound of Music Selections for Orchestra" is very difficult for me. But I like this music and I like playing the oboe. So I will do my best.

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  2. Hi. I'm Mamiko. I surprised at you naming each oboe. And "The Sound of Music Selections for Orchestra" is wonderful. I like it too! It has a lot of songs I have heard. I want to listen to it live. Do you belong to an orchestra? You will make it good! Try hard!

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  3. Hi, I'm shinji.
    I think it fun to name oboe. I hope you are able to play oboe!!

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  4. Hi, this is Ms. MacGregor. Your concert is today! I hope you had a lot of people come and that you are happy and satisfied after the concert. Did you play well? By the way, how long does a reed usually last? I know they are very sensitive to the changing weather. How do you keep them when the air is dry or humid?

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  5. Hi, i'm Natsumi. I played "The Sound of Music Selections" at my school festival in my second year in high school. I like this music! I cheer your practicing the oboe!

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  6. Hi, I’m Tomoka. Sound of music is my favorit musical !
    So I want to listen it !

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