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There are many prisms through which to view Supreme Court nominees. We can look at how they hire their nannies. We can take certain remarks (like “wise Latina”) out of context and paint the nominee as ...

The author of the blog Notes of an Anesthesioboist is just what the name implies: both an anesthesiologist and a budding oboist. When she started her blog back in May 2007, she used one of her first ...

The oboe has been a regular fixture in classical orchestras since the Baroque era – but its melancholic, singing tone is also an essential ingredient in some of the best-known pop bangers. Before we ...

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 ...

Part of How To Classical. Why does the oboe tune the orchestra? Why does the orchestra sit the way it does? What does rosin actually do to a violin bow? If you find the traditions of the classical ...

In March some friends went to lunch with my husband. One of them told a story about a high school senior she had heard about who had been in foster care since adolescence, was a great musician and ...

A musician said she's desperate to find her oboe after the prized instrument was stolen from her apartment building's lobby in Boston's Allston neighborhood. The thief entered the apartment building ...