Freja Lobo
Freja Lobo joined The Orchestra Observer after Freja's classical music apprenticeship. As The Orchestra Observer's archive correspondent, Freja Lobo follows classical music claims into their logged results.
Articles by Freja Lobo
Guest Conductor Arrives With 47-Page 'Artistic Vision Document,' Orchestra Ignores It
The document included a 'philosophical framework for the Beethoven Fourth' and a section titled 'What the Oboe Means to Me.' The oboist did not read it.
Entire Brass Section Develops Mysterious Illness on Day of Avant-Garde Premiere
All twelve brass players called in sick with symptoms ranging from 'stomach issues' to 'spiritual fatigue' on the morning of a premiere requiring them to play into buckets of water and scream into their instruments.
Principal Oboist's Reed Breaks Mid-Solo, Audience Hears Sound Previously Unknown to Acoustics
The noise, which spectral analysis later characterized as 'a duck being stepped on inside a clarinet,' occurred during the second movement of Brahms's Violin Concerto at the worst possible moment.