Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival DVD/CD: The First Ten Years…
Thursday November 20 2008
At the IDRS… convention this past summer, Laila Storch gave my mentor David Weber a DVD… of the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival‘s Commemorative 10 year anniversary DVD…/CD. Mr. Weber watched the DVD… that night and told me that I should buy it immediately, which I did when I got back.
Well, I had some terrible luck with shipping. The first one that was sent got lost, never to be found again. The second one got sent out, without my apartment number, and was returned to the sender. Fortunately, they were kind enough to send it back out, and I’m glad they did.
There’s some great clips on this DVD… which tells the tale of how it got started. Aloysia Friedmann is the artistic director and her husband, Jon Kimura Parker is the Artistic Advisor of this chamber music, which likes like a lot of fun. It tells the story of Aloysia’s parents, Oboist Laila Storch and Martin Friedmann raising her in a musical family and building the love for chamber music.
The DVD… has a lot of great clips for oboists. There are sections where Robert Atherholt of Rice University and Aloysia play the Loeffler Deux Rhapsodies with Kimura Parker, and several sections with Laila play with others.
Perhaps the greatest gem for oboists falls under the “Bonus Chapters” which shows a 10 minute section of John Mack making a reed. Mr. Weber told me that “everyone can learn a thing or two” by watching this section. While the section goes by fast, and fast forwards through some steps, everyone can gleam a thing or two about how he listens and judges the reed by the crow. The $25 CD/DVD is well worth the price just for this 10 minute section.
Jul 11, 2009
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