Hi! I'm Joethemusician, but you can also call me Dr. T. I am currently serving as a professor of music at Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville Missouri. I have a Bachelors of Music Performance from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (Saxophone, Clarinet), Master of Music in Multiple Woodwinds from the University of North Carolina Greensboro, a second Master of Music Performance from the University of Florida (Oboe), and a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music (Oboe).
TLDR: I'm an ex-classical saxophonist turned clarinetist turned oboist.
Thanks so much. It seems the CSG was discontinued? I'm looking forward to trying the csvr, csvr-asp, and se-artist, though it seems they are not all easy to find here in the Bay Area. You sound great. I'm actually amazed you play on legere reeds, especially with a bd5. I have not had great luck through the range of the instrument (using an R13). What strength do you use?
It's amazing how few good players ever notice how really FLAT the throat A & Bb sounds or even why that often happens. As a jazz player, I have to be constantly aware of my mouth to maintain a "smile" which keeps the throat tones IN TUNE! Why don't these "great players" HEAR Just how flat their throat tones often are????? To each their own...out of tune notes just make me CRAZY!!!
The CSG is a fantastic instrument. Modern and fantastic ergonomics. However, after days of playing and comparing with the Buffet Crampon Divine (which preferred above the RC, Prestige, Tosca, Legende) the BC Divine won by far. It also blended better in the orchestra. Nevertheless, the Yamaha CSG is really a great instrument, matter of taste.
Paul Reade is so underrated - his theme for the 1989 BBC adaptation of Tom's Midnight Garden is such a perfect fit for the bittersweet beauty of the story.
You more in clarinets in that room, than I do cars in my driveway.. 😅.. Very nice video.. My granddaughter is just starting, I hope she takes a super liking to it. Got her a Yamaha YCL 255 to start put with, but if she sticks with it a big upgrade will come in high school..
i'm also using a csg for a about 2 years, but don't you realize that yamaha clarinet's key are too soft? it happened to me for playing a while maybe half year the keys start clap clap clap the sound...
Thank you so much for playing the music of "Jane Eyre" 1983 version. It's a shame there's no OST of it for purchase but I'm glad you guys managed to play it. More power to you guys! Since I watched it's series, here's the track list of it: 0:05 Opening and Ending Theme 2:04 Jane and Rochester (Episode 8) 4:23 Blanche Ingram's Theme (Episode 5) 5:37 Adele's Theme (Episode 4) 7:22 In The Moors (Episode 11) 8:52 Reconciliation (Episode 5 Ending Credits)
The SE Artist reminds me of my favorite years of Buffet-1963, 65, and 68. In fact, it sounds more reminiscent (at least from your video) than any modern Buffet models (including the notoriously inconsistent modern R13's), which are trending more and more dull. I'm glad to see color isn't completely out of style yet!
To my ears CSVR and SE both sounded better than the CSG. It then all depends on your setup and how much air you want to be able to blow through the instrument.
It’s interesting how subjective sound concepts are. I love the csvr-asp but there is something extra special about se artist. I think either set would do really well for me!
Some differences between the oboe and clarinet are the oboe being a double reed instrument, and the clarinet being a single reed instrument. The clarinet has a wide range compared to the oboe. The clarinet has a darker timbre and lower tessitura than the oboe, although the clarinet can go a tiny bit higher than the oboe, as well as considerably lower. Because the oboe is a double reed instrument, it sounds more reedy than the clarinet. The clarinet is considered to be more suitable for jazz music, while the oboe typically doesn't have much contact with jazz music. I find this a shame because I do find the oboe to have a wonderful blend with brass instruments as well as the saxophone. But then the clarinet and the saxophone have a wonderful blend as well.
It's simply called, "The Theme from Jane Eyre (Melodic Instrument & Piano)". Still seems to be available as sheet music but I haven't found an audio download anywhere, only this video clip. Shame as it deserves to be more widely enjoyed.
English Horn is one of my favorite woodwind instruments. I really wished I played one. My main instrument is viola and I played flute, clarinet, and alto saxophone.
what computer program/software did you use to make this video? I've tried one, but when i put two videos together, the sound for one of them turned off.
I played the clarinet for 6 years as a kid but always wondered why I never played the oboe instead when the clarinet has such an awful sound in comparison
Nice!!!! Playing this piece is probably super hard! I don't really know 'cause I'm a clarinet player:) But anyway,I saw a few other videos of this concerto and this one is pretty good compared to some!!!!!! Nice job!!!!!!
Were you a sax player first? Do you consider one of these instruments primary and the others "doubles"? I'm curious because I'm (for compositional reasons) taking up a few other instruments. Is it a huge transition (fingering-wise) between the oboe and the others. I have a previous Jazz background, so I'm very familiar with lots of sax players doubling on clarinet or flute, but never oboe. I'm considering bass clarinet and oboe (I already play flute fairly well). My primary instruments are piano, guitar, voice, and have played bass and percussion. I'm a composer so any experience with these instruments would be helpful and a lot more useful (I find) than a million orchestration books. Just curious. If you have time, I'm just wondering if it's a big pain to transition from clarinet to oboe, and vice versa. Great job, by the way.
It is easier to transition between fingering patterns on flute/sax/oboe because they're all in octaves - clarinet is only slightly more difficult because it's in a twelfth. For example, on flute, oboe and saxophone, all three fingers down on both hands is a "D" (as written) on all of those instruments in the first two octaves, give or take a thumb or octave key. On clarinet, it's G below middle c in the lower octave, and then it's D in the upper octave. However, I suspect that the reason that most jazz players stick to the trio of flute/sax/clarinet is that the embouchure is more similar between sax and clarinet, and there isn't as much of the expectation of cutting your own reeds at the professional level like there is with oboe.
Chris Archer Wow! Thanks for the full answer. I really appreciate that. I'm teaching my daughter the flute, and want to play oboe (eventually) so I can accompany her with pieces I write. Some day, I'd love to dive into a bass clarinet as well, for similar reasons. I've had issues with the notion of writing for a constantly changing ensemble, because (unless we're "famous" or professors with sycophants) we (composers) are constantly struggling to find performers. So I'd rather just come up with an expanded ensemble I like and focus on it. The more of those instruments I have some experience with, the less I need to prove myself and apologize for ignorance. I'm jabbering. Anyway, thanks for the thorough answer.
