Oboe d’amour

“George”:http://allaboutgeorge.typepad.com/ points to “this British color story”:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1658941,00.html, wherein Oboe d’amour is _not_ a reference to an instrument used in early music. It’s a little gratuitous, but not as untrue as you might think.

It does raise the question, though, why we don’t seem to mind the idea of romantic hookups shaping the course of rock and roll bands’ careers but we consider the casting couch in classical music to somehow be more morally problematical. Also, it makes my life as a chorister seem unbelievably dull.