Composer Jeff Scott. Courtesy of Jeff Scott's Instagram. The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s Live at the Sheldon series was the best thing to come out of the renovation of Powell Hall, which left the ...

No one has ever become world-famous by playing the oboe. Although the instrument has an integral role in the orchestral ecosystem—every ensemble tunes to its piercing A—the sweet-and-sour tang of its ...

Most oboe players are famous for being rather neurotic and even a bit crazy. The stereotype derives from all those long hours oboists spend making reeds and having to force air through an aperture no ...

Music teaching to children has got a thumbs-up from the school standards inspector, but while the violin, flute, guitar and recorder rank as the most popular instruments, the oboe is seen as uncool.

It's a good thing for Hassan Anderson that his mother, Carolyn, wasn't afraid to take risks. When he was a junior at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts, she sold her car to help him buy an oboe so ...

Eugene Izotov has been the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s principal oboist since 2005. In the midst of While on the orchestra’s recent European tour, he spoke about his instrument as well as the perils ...