Marcel Tabuteau First-Hand

MT era oboe

Daniel Bonade

28-Page Booklet for the
Philadelphia Orchestra’s First Transcontinental Tour

archived by Daniel Bonade

The Philadelphia Orchestra’s first transcontinental tour across America took place from April 13th to May 18th in 1936. It was a highly publicized event sponsored by RCA Victor Company. The informative 28-page booklet shown below announces the 8000 mile tour of ‘Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra.’ Tabuteau is pictured on page 13 with the caption: ‘The woodwind section is especially proud of MARCEL TABUTEAU, one of the world’s best oboe players, and the Orchestra’s finest cook.’ Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 was performed at certain concerts with Tabuteau featured as one of the four soloists.

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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.