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Marcel Tabuteau: How Do You Expect to Play the Oboe If You Can't Peel a Mushroom?

Marcel Tabuteau: How Do You Expect to Play the Oboe If You Can't Peel a Mushroom?

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Availability:In StockContributor:Laila StorchPublish date:2008-04-16Pages:624
Language:EnglishPublisher:Indiana University PressISBN-13:9780253032676ISBN-10:253032679UPC:9780253032676Book Category:Music, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Individual Composer & Musician, Music, Musical InstrumentsBook Topic:WoodwindsSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 1.26 inchesWeight:1.9026Product ID:SCR0EXQ1GK

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Indiana University PressISBN-13:9780253032676ISBN-10:253032679UPC:9780253032676Book Category:Music, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Individual Composer & Musician, Music, Musical InstrumentsBook Topic:WoodwindsSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 1.26 inchesWeight:1.9026Product ID:SCR0EXQ1GK

Laila Storch is Professor Emerita of Oboe at the University of Washington School of Music and a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Marcel Tabuteau.


Publisher: Indiana University Press

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