UBC School of Music oboist Roger Cole and pianist Terence Dawson serve Schumann and Telemann for lunch, January 20 at noon
Works for the double-reed instrument jump from the 18th century to 1962
UBC Music Wednesday Noon Hours presents Roger Cole and Terence Dawson on January 20 at 12 pm
THE OBOE GETS its rare chance at the spotlight this Wednesday during the noonhour, when Roger Cole, principal for the instrument at the VSO, artistic director of the Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra, and adjunct professor at UBC takes the stage with pianist Terence Dawson.
Roger Cole
Dawson, associate prof at UBC School of Music, is one of the city’s most respected keyboard masters.
Together, they take on work including Robert Schumann’s only piece for the double-reed instrument, Three Romances for Oboe and Piano. The colourful, mood-shifting trio was gifted to the composer’s beloved wife Clara for Christmas 1849, just weeks before he entered the German asylum where he would later die.
Terence Dawson
Elsewhere, the two virtuosos take on Telemann’s Oboe Sonata in A minor, from more than a century earlier, and then jump ahead to the 20th century for Poulenc’s Oboe Sonata FP. 185, from 1962. Mirroring the Schumann piece, it’s considered the last work the French composer wrote before he died.
And we can't predict what this stellar pair will do with Rachmaninoff's “Vocalise” Op. 34, No. 14, but we're sure that Cole will show how his underappreciated instrument can "sing".
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