Lessons

Art of the Oboe
Original Release Format: LP (two)
Label: Coronet
Catalog #: 1717
Year Recorded: 1965

Marcel Tabuteau’s Lessons
Original Release Format: CD (from above LPs)
Label: Boston Records
Catalog #: BR1017CD
Year Recorded: 1965/published 1996

Tabuteau–Wolsing Tapes
Original Release Format: CD
Label: Indiana University Press
Bloomington and Indianapolis
Recording Date: 1964

Supplement to Marcel Tabuteau: How Do You Expect to Play the Oboe If You Can’t Peel a Mushroom? by Laila Storch; 2008. The CD is housed in a clear plastic holder affixed to the inside back cover of the hardback editions. In the latest edition (2018–soft cover), the CD is not included, but a link is provided where you can access the recording online: https://media.dlib.indiana.edu/media_objects/wd375x615/section/fj2365431.

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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.