Book Reviews

Laila Storch: Marcel Tabuteau

Birnstingl, Roger. Marcel Tabuteau: How Do You Expect to Play the Oboe If You Can’t Peel a Mushroom? by Laila Storch. The Double Reed. Vol. 42, No. 1 (2019): pp. 183-185.

Brodersen, Christopher. Marcel Tabuteau: How Do You Expect to Play the Oboe If You Can’t Peel a Mushroom? by Laila Storch. Fanfare. (August 2010): pp. 534-536.

Finkelman, Michael. Oboe Book Reviews: Marcel Tabuteau: How Do You Expect to Play the Oboe If You Can’t Peel a Mushroom? by Laila Storch. The Double Reed. Vol. 33, No. 3 (2010): pp. 113-125.

Frisbie, E.E. Marcel Tabuteau: How Do You Expect to Play the Oboe If You Can’t Peel a Mushroom? by Laila Storch. Reviews for Academic Libraries. Volume 46, Issue 5 (2009) p. 912.

Heath, Jason. PBDB Book Review Dept: Marcel Tabuteau: How Do You Expect to Play the Oboe If You Can’t Peel a Mushroom? Blog: Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog, August 23, 2008.

Ivry, Benjamin. Review: Marcel Tabuteau: How Do You Expect to Play the Oboe If You Can’t Peel a Mushroom? Classic Record Collector. (Autumn 2008): pp. 64-65

Kuyper-Rushing, Lois. Review: Marcel Tabuteau: How Do You Expect to Play the Oboe If You Can’t Peel a Mushroom? by Laila Storch. MLA-Notes. Second Series, Vol. 65, No. 4 (2009): pp. 766-768. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/263818 and also https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236792984_Marcel_Tabuteau_How_Do_You_Expect_to_Play_the_Oboe_If_You_Can%27t_Peel_a_Mushroom_review

Lawrence, David. Oboe Book Reviews: Marcel Tabuteau: How Do You Expect to Play the Oboe If You Can’t Peel a Mushroom? by Laila Storch. The Double Reed. Vol. 33, No. 2 (2010): pp. 143-145.

McColl, Anthony. Marcel Tabuteau by Laila Storch. Double Reed News. No. 87 (Summer 2009) pp. 42-43.

Video Review:
Schweikert, Donald. Storch’s ‘Marcel Tabuteau.’

David McGill: Sound in Motion

“A most important, all-encompassing book about music, its nature, and its significance, not only for the professional musician, but for all those who see in it an expression of human creation. [McGill] deals with the different expressive means of sound, of styles and, perhaps most important of all for the practicing musician, the connection between attitude and aptitude. He understands perfectly that music is, after all, not a profession, but rather a way of life…A rare book full of knowledge and insight.”

—Daniel Barenboim, world-renowned pianist and conductor

Heath, Jason. PBDB Book Review Dept: Sound in Motion. Blog: Jason Heath’s Double Bass Blog, August 23, 2008.

Monelle, Raymond. Deepening Musical Performance through Movement: The Theory and Practice of Embodied Interpretation, and: Sound in Motion: A Performer’s Guide to Greater Musical Expression. Music and Letters. Vol. 90, No. 3 (August 2009): pp. 526-527.

Peterson, Elaine. Book Review: Sound in Motion: A Performer’s Guide to Greater Musical Expression, by David McGill. NACWPI Journal. Vol. 57, No. 3 (2009): pp. 42-43.

Sorrels, Keith. Book Review: David McGill: Sound in MotionThe Double Reed. Vol. 31, No. 2 (2008): pp. 129-130. https://www.idrs.org/publications/110-the-double-reed-2008-31-2/#page=131.

Stock, Matt. Book Reviews: Sound in Motion: A Performer’s Guide to Greater Expression by David McGill. ITG Journal. Vol. 36, No. 4 (2012): p. 102.

Ycaza, Stephanie. Feeling or Thinking? Blog: Stephanie Ycaza, July 26, 2019.

James Thurmond: Note Grouping

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An audio interview with Joan Browne (Champie), a private Tabuteau student in the early 1950s.

A photograph of the music stand that was in Tabuteau’s private studio in Philadelphia.

An autographed photo of Marcel Tabuteau inscribed to Vladimir Sokoloff.

An autographed photo of Marcel Tabuteau inscribed to Joan Browne Champie.

With the passing of Wilbur Isaac Hilles in August 2023 and now Martha Scherer-Alfee in February 2024, no oboe students of Marcel Tabuteau at the Curtis Institute are still living.

A letter sent to the Curtis Institute by Laila Storch’s mother about Tabuteau not teaching at Curtis—and the reply.