Oboe in a Sentence
  • I started playing the oboe at the age of eleven.
  • Mozart, for one, was extremely skilled at using the oboe to its full advantage in an ensemble.
  • Since 1981, he has been first oboe of the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra.
  • The advertisements in fact put the solo oboe, clarinet or cornet players in big bold type.
  • The bassoon has normally a broader resonator than the oboe.
  • Was past grade 8 on oboe, but getting a bit rusty.
  • My brother sits outdoors in the night and squeaks a bit on his oboe, nothing much.
  • In the violin concerto, the second movement opens with a beautiful melody played by the oboe.
  • He has recently completed an oboe concerto commissioned by the John Lewis Partnership for Nick Daniel for 10 performances in October 1998.
  • She'd been trying to learn the horn using an oboe embouchure.
  • At the end, the oboe motive returns, to be dismissed by a final harp glissando.
  • He studied oboe and pianoforte at the Royal Marines School of Music, where he also became interested in composing music.
  • Until then she had taught the oboe, clarinet and piano for twelve years in five schools in Hertfordshire.
  • However, on closer examination, the score suggests that Vanhal probably had the oboe in mind.
  • He had with him one of his wooden flue pipes, orchestral oboe.
  • She started her career as principal oboe in the BBC Welsh Orchestra.
  • Everyone was weeping with laughter except for Bridget Alexander, the second oboe.
  • She specializes in the baroque oboe, and teaches the instrument at several centers of music.
  • Magnificent examples are Mozart's trio for pianoforte, clarinet and viola, his quintet for pianoforte, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon (imitated by Beethoven), his quintet for clarinet and strings, Brahms's clarinet-quintet for the same combination, and his trio for pianoforte, violin and horn.