Dear Guests, Welcome to my blog which I treat like a creative garden where I regularly plant and change this and that be it poetry, philosophy, an Oboe Brilliance lesson, an essay of some kind, or a journal about composing. Visit every Monday for oboe coaching which is also helpful for many melodic instrumentalists. Musically yours, Kathryn

"How do you compose?" That is the most commonly asked question I hear.
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Oboe Brilliance update

Dear Guests,

I continue to work on Oboe Brilliance, and it continues to evolve. I'm composing many pentatonic melodies and duets, modal and odd scale melodies, fantasias, suites, chromatic melodies that are long and short, a tonal melodies, plus more duets. All for oboists beginning up to and including virtuosic players. Also, lessons in technical elegance, artistic liberation, and mentoring techniques/philosophies.

When I am well again (down with the flu today), I will post a chromatic low Bb to high F scale for intonation work as a continuation of technical elegance which will be up with the other mp3s for Oboe Brilliance on the music page.

Musically yours,

Kathryn

PS (Realistically, I plan on having Oboe Brilliance completed in a year from now.)