Rutter, Psalm 23

[jochanaan]

I've been asked (again) to play the lovely oboe solo in Psalm 23 from John Rutter's Requiem, this time for a Good Friday service.  It's one of those pieces that both lays well for the oboe and sounds really nice.  And I've played it several times before.  And I'm getting paid! Is life good or what?

[Karl Henning]

Sweet!

[jochanaan]

Yes, it was!  My only complaint is that I had to wait so long to play, sitting in front of the congregation without a chance to do more than ensure my reed was soaked, that the first note bobbled a bit.  After that, though, it played fine.  (Be glad you only have to deal with one reed at a time!  Double reeds, as you probably know, are more than double the trouble! )

[Karl Henning]

So I've always been given to understand!

[jochanaan]

'Tis true, 'tis true.  But worth the trouble when one gets as many compliments as I on the oboe's sound.

[Karl Henning]

I make no doubt of that at all!