{"id":223,"date":"2013-05-26T18:03:27","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T23:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/?page_id=223"},"modified":"2021-02-09T18:20:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T23:20:36","slug":"music","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/music\/","title":{"rendered":"Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"mel-image1 alignright wp-image-227 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMAG0311-179x300.jpg\" alt=\"Christmas Oboe\" width=\"179\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMAG0311-179x300.jpg 179w, https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMAG0311-612x1024.jpg 612w, https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMAG0311-89x150.jpg 89w, https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IMAG0311.jpg 1952w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I began my musical studies in the elementary school band program at my local public school when I was in fourth grade. My desire to play the oboe was thwarted by a high interest in the instrument, so I began my studies on the flute. I switched to the oboe my sophomore year in high school, after the other students had moved on to other things, and have been playing since.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoy playing all sorts of music, from the Renaissance through the modern, from chamber ensembles and orchestral pieces to musical theater.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;ve played in the pit for many community theater performances both in MA and back home in Connecticut, including Les Mis\u00c3\u00a9rables, Fiddler on the Roof, Nine, Once Upon a Mattress, Carousel, and Music Man. As an undergraduate, I played in the Wind Symphony and Wind Ensemble at Cornell University before moving to the Cape. In August, you&#8217;ll find me at the Chamber Music Conference and Composers&#8217; Forum of the East (aka. the conference formerly known as Bennington). During the regular season, I&#8217;m currently playing with the <a href=\"http:\/\/falmouthchamberplayers.org\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Falmouth Chamber Players Orchestra<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brocktonsymphony.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brockton Symphony<\/a>, as well as many local small ensembles.\u00c2\u00a0 Check out their websites for our concert schedules!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I began my musical studies in the elementary school band program at my local public school when I was in fourth grade. My desire to play the oboe was thwarted by a high interest in the instrument, so I began my studies on the flute. I switched to the oboe my sophomore year in high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":434,"parent":0,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/223"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/223\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}