damn_the_oboes failing to make sense of it with their fuckin' 50 measures of rest, looking over our shoulders and humming the tune, snapping the rhythm like we're not playing it right, as if that would really help us if we weren't. and if you're so good, then why do the woodwinds have to come in an hour earlier and then stay an hour later and then still get chastized about their parts? fuckin commie woodwinds... 021026 ... failing to make sense of it though I am not in any way making a generalized statement and I'm sure that only these oboes are such assholes. most oboes are very nice people and don't deserve to have bows shoved up their tight asses. 021026 ... unhinged but it does seem to be half true just about anywhere you go. when you can play the SAME a four times to tune (yes you have to play the same a for the whole orchestra to tune to) you can talk to me about playing out of tune. bastards. 021026 what's it to you? who go blather from