It's a stretch, but there are actually a few ways to link Bill Aikens, principal oboist with the Grand Junction Symphony Orchestra, with John de Lancie. De Lancie, also an oboist, was the U.S. Army ...

If ever there was a classical concerto that can be likened to a marathon run, then hands down it would have to be Richard Strauss’ Oboe Concerto in D major. The task of performing this breathtakingly ...

Wang Liang clearly remembers a story that his late oboe teacher, John de Lancie, the former principal oboist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, told him years ago. In 1945, De Lancie, then 24, and the ...

In 1945, a corporal in the U.S. army (and oboist) visited Richard Strauss at his home and asked him if he had ever considered writing an oboe concerto. The old man declined. Six months later - aged 81 ...