Marcel Tabuteau

Laila Storch

Description

A captivating biography of the most influential oboist of the 20th century

Laila Storch is a world-renowned oboist in her own right, but her book honors Marcel Tabuteau, one of the greatest figures in twentieth-century music. Tabuteau studied the oboe from an early age at the Paris Conservatoire and was brought to the United States in 1905, by Walter Damrosch, to play with the New York Symphony Orchestra. Although this posed a problem for the national musicians' union, he was ultimately allowed to stay, and the rest, as they say, is history. Eventually moving to Philadelphia, Tabuteau played in the Philadelphia Orchestra and taught at the Curtis Institute of Music, ultimately revamping the oboe world with his performance, pedagogical, and reed-making techniques.

In 1941, Storch auditioned for Tabuteau at the Curtis Institute, but was rejected because of her gender. After much persistence and several cross-country bus trips, she was eventually accepted and began a life of study with Tabuteau. Blending archival research with personal anecdotes, and including access to rare recordings of Tabuteau and Waldemar Wolsing, Storch tells a remarkable story in an engaging style.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Accessing the Audio Files

1. Compiègne and the Tabuteau Family
2. Paris Conservatoire: Tabuteau's Studies with Georges Gillet, 1902-1904
3. Arrival in America: Walter Damrosch and the New York Symphony Orchestra, 1905-1908
4. The Metropolitan Opera: Singers and Conductors of the "Golden Age," 1908-1914
5. San Francisco Interlude: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition Orchestra, 1915
6. The Philadelphia Orchestra: The Stokowski Years, 1915-1940
7. Tabuteau as Soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra: 1915-1954
8. Tabuteau at the Curtis Institute of Music: 1924-1946
9. Lessons with Tabuteau: My Arrival in Philadelphia, January 1943
10. My First Year with Tabuteau at the Curtis Institute: October 1943-May 1944
11. Tabuteau Conducts the Curtis Orchestra: Fall 1944-Spring 1945
12. Tabuteau's Summers in Canada: Salmon Fishing in Nova Scotia
13. Another Year of Study with Tabuteau: 1945-1946
14. Summers in France: The Pingouinette; Back to Philadelphia, 1948
15. Tabuteau's Last Years at the Curtis Institute: 1946-1954
16. The Casals Festivals in Prades and Perpignan: 1950, 1951, and 1953
17. Tabuteau as Seen by His Philadelphia Orchestra Colleagues
18. Retirement in France: La Coustiéro, 1954-1959
19. Tabuteau's Final Years in Nice: 1959-1966
20. Philadelphia Postlude: Tabuteau's Playing; His Musical Ideas and Influence

Appendix 1. Introduction and Text Transcription for the Tabuteau-Wolsing Audio Files
Appendix 2. The Students of Marcel Tabuteau at the Curtis Institute of Music
Appendix 3. The Tabuteau System: Essay and Outline by Marc Mostovoy
Glossary of Terms Used by Oboists
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index

Sujets

• Musique
• Histoire de la musique
• Technique musicale
• Technique musicale
• Woodwinds
• Musical Instruments
• MUSIC
• Musical instrument
• Wind instrument
• Biography
• Multiple signal classification
• Study
• Curtis Institute of Music
• Memoir
• General officer
• Woodwind instrument
• Oboe
• General
• Winds
• Institut Curtis
• Instruction
• Hautbois

Informations

• Publié par: Indiana University Press
• Date de parution: 16 avril 2008
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780253032683
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 41 Mo

Extrait

MARCEL TABUTEAU

Marcel Tabuteau HôwDôYôûExpÉÇô PàÉOôÉIYôû CàPÉÉàMûŝôô?

LAILA STORCH

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the original edition as follows:

Storch, Laila. Marcel Tabuteau : how do you expect to play the oboe if you can’t peel a mushroom? / Laila Storch. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN13: 9780253349491 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Tabuteau, Marcel, 1887–1966. 2. Oboe players—Biography. I. Title. ML419.T125S76 2008 788.5'2092—dc22 [B] 2007025642 ISBN 9780253032676 (pbk.)

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Frontispiece:Tabuteau in His Studio.Portrait by Philadelphia artist Rachel Bulley Trump, 1953. Courtesy Alain de Gourdon.

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PREFACE

ôàôŝôéàŝûŝîÇôéŝ,ŝûéŝ,Çôôîŝŝéûŝ,àéô ûŝîÇîàŝéééàééûîqûéàîŝôMàÇéTàûéàû Téîŝééôîŝpàŝî, îŝééàÇéôŝé, àôîŝŝîé ôéàŝîôûŝpîal and oat seemingly without effort to the top rows of the balcony of the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. During the time that Tabuteau was the solo oboist of the Philadelphia Orches- tra, he also taught at the Curtis Institute of Music. To his own oboe students he passed on the best elements of the French woodwind tradi- tion, at the same time establishing such new standards of finesse in or- chestral blending, variety of tone color, and nuance of phrasing that what is now known as the “American school of oboe playing,” or, more specifically, the “Tabuteau style,” has become the accepted and expected norm for oboists in all American symphony orchestras. Through his conducting of woodwind ensembles, his inuence reached the players of all other wind instruments. In later years he coached string groups and led an orchestra. Many violinists, violists, cellists, and pianists have said that they received their most valuable musical knowledge in Tabuteau’s classes at Curtis.

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