Tabuteau Soloist With the Orchestra

October 20, 1939

Marcel Tabuteau, distinguished oboe soloist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, will be the soloist at the concerts next Friday afternoon and Saturday evening in the Academy of Music, Eugene Ormandy conducting. Mr. Tabuteau will also be the soloist at the New York concert of Tuesday, November 7. He will play Mozart’s quartet for oboe and strings rescored by Leopold Stokowski for oboe and orchestral accompaniment.

This is the first of five concerts during the season at which members of the Orchestra will be the soloists. Other numbers at the concerts next week will be a suite from Henry Purcell’s opera, “Dido and Aeneas, transcribed for large orchestra by Lucien Cailliet, and Cesar Franck’s ever-popular Symphony in D Minor.

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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.