Unlike most oboists, I didn’t take up the oboe until I was about 30, after we had our first child and moved to Hingham. What terrific luck that there was a community music school, the South Shore ...

William Perry Baker was introduced to the oboe in high school, and a lifelong musical romance followed. Along the way, Baker taught, mentored and amused scores of younger oboists, many of whom are now ...

I took oboe lessons in Havana when I lived there in the early 1990s and wrote about them at the time. I was hoping to improve my mediocre oboe skills acquired during junior high school, and frankly, I ...