The lonely oboe

Courier-News (Elgin, IL) | April 2, 2002| | Copyright

Aurora native and 42-year member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Grover Schiltz, rehearses at Chicago's Symphony Center. Seen here playing the English horn, Schiltz also plays the oboe.

Now here's a sentence seldom uttered: I wish I could play the oboe. It has always been that way, it seems.

When Grover Schiltz was young, everyone wanted to take saxophone or clarinet or trumpet.

Those were the attractive instruments.

Nobody wanted to play the oboe.

Not even Grover Schiltz.

There are advantages, of course.

The oboe is largely a solo instrument, and that comes with lots of responsibility ...

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