Unlike most oboists, I didn’t take up the oboe until I was about 30, after we had our first child and moved to Hingham. What terrific luck that there was a community music school, the South Shore ...

Once the U.S. became involved in World War II, many young men were eager to enlist. “All my friends were going,” Jim Peterson recalled, “so I decided to go too.” The Navy was Peterson’s first choice. ...

Becoming a music educator was always in the stars for Barbara (London) Pierpoint (BME ’72). “I knew I wanted to be a music teacher since the fourth grade, but playing the oboe influenced everything ...

The process of becoming an orchestral musician is generally an arduous road, filled with disappointment and, hopefully, eventual success. Having just finished my master’s degree in oboe performance, I ...

I took oboe lessons in Havana when I lived there in the early 1990s and wrote about them at the time. I was hoping to improve my mediocre oboe skills acquired during junior high school, and frankly, I ...