Marco aurelio yano biography of williams

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You know, as good as I like to think my musical memory is, sometimes things happen that really make me question it.

Take today’s piece: I was absolutely over the moon for Marco Aurélio Yano’s oboe concerto in high school, and then I completely forgot about its existence until a brief notice in the most recent issue of The Double Reed* about the impending publication of the piano reduction reminded me of how many feelings I had about it.

So, of course, I rushed off to listen to it again, and all of thos