October 15, 2004

Medicine for Musicians

By KATHERINE S. MANGAN

Listening to Michael Adduci play a haunting melody on his oboe with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, you might think he has a cushy job. But peer down his nose -- with the help of a fiber-optic cable and a computer screen -- at his vocal cords that pulsate with every breath, and the sounds he emits don't seem so effortless.

"We say we're 'playing' our instrument, and we sit in comfortable chairs," the University of North Texas doctoral student and adjunct music instructor