"Gabriel's Oboe," Ennio Morricone's haunting theme from the 1986 film The Mission has a special place in my heart as an oboist. The melody is so beautifully written for the instrument. It soars, it beseeches and it engulfs the senses. When someone asks me to 'give 'em a tune' in passing, more often than not, "Gabriel's Oboe" will be the piece they ask me to play. So I was interested to discover yesterday that Morrico…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 11:13AM on September 9, 2011