So first of all, I blogged about the KW Symphony’s 10/11 season over here. KWSocial, that thing over there, is something I’ve been working on here for the past few weeks.  I’ll admit I was skeptical at first – another social networking site? – but I’ve been rethinking its purpose, and I like the idea of a place where people can interact with musicians without it being creepy, as an aggregator for KWS news, reviews, and discussion, as a place where people new to the orchestra (and old hands) can find out about the music, local restaurants, parking and venues, and where it is relaxed and comfortable, and I am given basically free reign to write sassy FAQs.

Okay, so I really like being given free reign to write sassy FAQs.

This week we’re having a concert about Music and Food (best idea ever), and the way this concert is programmed is basically amazing.  You have to admit this is genius. It is set up like a multi-course meal!

We begin with dinner music

Raymond Scott: Dinner Music for a Pack of Hungry Cannibals

Leading to a nice amuse bouche

Per Nørgard: Pastorale from Babette’s Feast

Drinks, anyone?

Shostakovich: Tahiti Trot (Tea for Two)

Sitting down to dinnerrrr

Vaughan Williams: “March Past of the Kitchen Utensils” from The Wasps

Vegetables

John Estacio: “The Harversters” from A Farmer’s Symphony

Entrée

Cole Porter arr. E. Outwater: “The Tale of the Oyster”

Chocolate gateau for dessert

Lee Hoiby: Bon Appetit

After-dinner mints

Strawberry Alarm Clock arr. Nicole Lizée: Incense and Peppermint

Delicious, n’est-ce pas? I am very excited! I am even attending the concert (Friday night) for the first time in a while (I have to work every concert, so I usually don’t go in, but I get a night off to go).

So I’ve never tried this before, but I’m wondering if any oboists out there have a recording of the Zwilich Oboe Concerto? I’m playing it for my jury, and ordered it from my local classical record store, but it is backordered or really expensive from all their sources, and available nowhere online! Now, as you know, it is Very Handy to be able to listen to a recording of a piece, particularly a contemporary piece, before playing it, and so this is a bit of a hardship.

So, if anyone has this recording, how would you feel about emailing it to me in the knowledge that I am, in fact, going to buy it the second it arrives in KW? Contribute to the “Renegade Oboe Jury” cause?