David Dickey, Storyteller
DAVID DICKEY, BM in Oboe Performance, BA in Vocal Performance, UMD School of Music
It was the summer of my senior year of high school. I was at the Eastern Music Festival, playing the second oboe part in Shostakovich’s 5th Symphony, which I had never heard done before, which is stupid because it’s such a staple, such an amazing work. So the first time I was hearing the piece was as I was playing it.