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ARTS'
Page 6 Friday, March 5, 1982 The Michigan Daily
Ho iger Os oboe
not an i wind r
By Jane Carl
O BOES ARE primarily regarded as
orchestral instruments in
America, as are most wind instrumen-
ts, and have been defined as "an ill
wind that nobody blows good;" but
Heinz Holliger, the bookish, bespec-
tacled, 42-year-old Swiss oboist and
composer, has done more than his part
to change both images.
His overwhelming virtuosity has ear-
ned him world-wide acclaim for both
his interpretation of the expansive
baroque oboe literature and that of new
works by composers such as Berio,
Stockhausen, and Penderecki, who are
among the 60 composers that have writ-
ten works for Hollinger.
Speaking by phone from Seattle,
where he appeared before his recent
American premier of a work by Witold
Lutislowski for oboe and harp with the
Minnesota Orchestra, Holliger related
the state of European oboists. "The
oboe is much more common as a solo
instrument in Europe, especially in
England, which is due to the British
oboist Leon Goosens, a pioneer in the
field. In America, the training from the
very beginning is orchestral.
."I, too, started more than twenty
years ago as an orchestral player, but
that was only for three years. Now I
sometimes think it is also a pity that I
am a soloist. I would like to play with a
good orchestra and a good conductor,
but only for one concert. Then, I would
go back and be a soloist again,"
said Holliger with a laugh.
As a composer, Holliger studies with
Boulez and was very influenced by the
Viennese school. His own Study on
Multiphonics explored the harmonics,
chords, and various other effects
possible on the oboe. Speaking of the
two vocations Holliger said, "Both
professions are together. I couldn't be
without either one. I wouldn't play as I
do if I didn't compose, and I wouldn't
compose as i do if I didn't play.
"Although I have written for the
oboe, I'm not interested in writing
music for my onw performance. I'm
very interested in the human voice. I've
recently written two one-act operas
based on the Beckett plays "Come and
Go" and "Not I," and a cycle for a
capella chorus using the poems of
Holderin."
Heinz Holliger and his wife Ursule, a
harpist, will appear at Rackham
Auditorium Sunday, March 7, at 4:00
p.m. The program will consist of 19th
century paraphrases of Bellini and
Donizetti, solo works for oboe and harp
by Benjamin Britten, and Andre
Jolivet's Controversia, a piece in-
troducing new techniques for both oboe
and harp. Tickets are available at the
University Musical Society, Burton
Tower.
Swiss-born oboist Heinz Holliger displays his expertise at Rackham
Auditorium Sunday afternoon.
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