This week the Oberlin Review sent me to the Conservatory here at Oberlin to "take a picture." The Review comes out this afternoon and they will likely print only one of the more then 100 photos I took at the Con, (and they don’t have exclusivity rights). So here's a few of my favorites.
Double Basses in a Double Bass practice room:
This Oberlin student was belting out jazz while waiting for his own student to come for a lesson.
The drums are inside a practice room, and the kid studying is actually sitting across the hall - seen in the reflection of the practice-room door-window.
Much of an Oberlin conservatory student's life is spent like this:
And in rooms like this:
Going through this door:
And looking up at this ceiling: