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With the help of a master composer and a folklore duck, Lisa Harvey-Reed will be swimmingly introducing audiences to her instrument for the first time this weekend. I remember I didn t know what an oboe was when they told me I was going to play it back in fourth grade. But the duck has sort of nasal qualities, and certainly primitive oboes had nasal qualities. Hopefully, it s evolved to a little more refined sound at this point. But the duck s melody is like it s swimming . and you can picture the duck swimming along in the pond leisurely when you hear it, said Harvey-Reed, the principal oboist for the Oklahoma City Philharmonic.
The board of directors of the Piedmont Wind Symphony in Winston-Salem recently hired Mark A. Norman as the organizationâs music director and conductor.
He replaces Matthew Troy, who left the position in early 2020 to lead the Western Piedmont Symphony in Hickory.
Norman has more than 30 years of experience as a conductor and tuba performer. He has been working closely with the Piedmont Wind Symphony on a recording project since late 2020, but his first day on the job as music director/conductor was Feb. 26.
He is also director of Instrumental Ensembles and a conducting faculty artist at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.