The Revelations come in waves…

Tuesday April 29 2008

So today I received the Tabuteau book I previously blogged about, and much to my surprise, there’s a great CD in it! This CD alone is probably worth the $25 dollars I paid for the book ($5 off for the preorder) and it’s a better sound quality than the Tabuteau Lessons CD. There’s a lot more of him playing excerpts, talking about ideas, and demonstrating them, and everything for me is coming into focus. Along with my recent C series oboe experience, I’m starting to be able to see how his whole setup was: his ability to control the wind and color.

I read the beginning of the book at instantly became very interested. I couldn’t put it down. David McGill’s Sound in Motion is going to have to wait.)

A quote from the CD right off hand:

“It does not mean a crescendo. On the contrary, when I go up, I think of smoke which is lighter than and goes up. Most of people, they go up, they play louder. Look! A crescendo going up, a diminuendo going down. I do exactly the contrary. To me a diminuendo is a sign of ascending.”

Hm— one could ponder that for hours.

Seriously, I think this could be the most important book for all oboists ever published.