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From: Bobbie Giordano
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 23:25:33 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Against The Grain

Harmonicists have their SPAH-type organizations, but so do other musical
genres, such as the SPEBSQSA and the IDRS, which are both holding their
conventions using the auditoriums of Florida State University here in
Tallahassee this weekend and thru Wednesday. An unlikely pairing as any
you could imagine, the first acronym stands for the Society for the
Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America
[honest!] and the other for the International Double Reed Society. Even
though I've heard that the SPEBSQSA's annual event held by a local chapter
is fun and fascinating, it's the second group's 25th Anniversary Convention
in which I'm more interested, which will include "hundreds of bassoonists
and oboists from around the globe arriving for lectures, workshops, com-
petition and nearly 50 concerts." Maybe a far cry from blues harp, but I
figure at $5 for most concerts, I may try to catch one or a few, since the
talent is liable to be unlike any this area may see for another 13 years,
the last time it was held here. Our paper said, "The concert programs
will boast baroque music as well as cutting-edge contemporary; popular
songs as well as classical standards; traditional hymns as well as klezmer
music; opera tunes as well as jazz." Something for everyone.

The ONE concert I definitely plan to see tomorrow night is the highly
touted opener performance at 7 PM. The reason? Two guys who packed a
6,000-seat hall in Minneapolis last week, Against the Grain, the duo of
Tom Boyd on oboe and Tommy Morgan on harmonica. This most expensive of
the nighttime concerts at $12 will secondly feature a trio [bassoon,
oboe and piano] which includes oboist John Mack of the Cleveland
Orchestra, who is "something of a legend aamong fellow professional
oboists."

Against the Grain is being called "one of the top names" of the convention,
and of course, the paper said, "Against the Grain is a new act that records
soundtrack music for Hollywood movies, such as the new one by Steven
Spielberg, while also releasing classical and religious music on CDs."
And the ad for the program reads, "Against the Grain: Tom Boyd, Oboe, and
Tommy Morgan, harmonica. Hollywood motion picture recording artists with
over 400 movie soundtracks to their credit, playing favorite American hymns
and a Hollywood medley."

I'm very excited at this opportunity. Tommy, if your finding time to read
your email from Harp-L these days, I hope you'll read mine as I want to
wish you all the best on Saturday's concert. I will be there for my first
ever chance to see you perform live, and I can't tell you how much I'm
looking forward to it.

BTW, if any of you other Harp-Lers might know of any premiere talents in
the areas of bassoon and/or oboe who could possibly be at this event,
please drop me a line to give names of people I might hunt for in the
schedule of events. Thanks.

Play nice, harpers!

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