Articles/Advertisements Featuring Marcel Tabuteau

The articles below are listed chronologically.

Tabuteau to Conduct. Source unknown.

Symphony Soloist. The Sunday Star, Washington, DC. February 5, 1933.

Can Men Cook? Charlestown Daily Mail (Charleston, WV), November 19, 1933.

M. Tabuteau Gets Ribbon for his Oboe. Edwin Schloss. Philadelphia Inquirer, 1937.

Tabuteau to Get Legion of Honor Ribbon. Philadelphia Record. October 13, 1937.

Oboist Claims He Decomposes Music. Baltimore Evening Sun. November 4, 1937.

Leading Double Lives — and How. Philadelphia Inquirer. November 19, 1939.

Musician Cooks Like a Composer To Achieve Harmony with Foods. Harry Harris. Philadelphia Bulletin, April 28, 1949; reprinted in The Double Reed. Vol. 12, No. 1 (1989): pp. 39-43.

Oboist to Retire, Return to France to Live. Philadelphia Bulletin. February 10, 1954.

Oboes are NOT Ill Woodwinds. Irving Kolodin. Tuscon Daily Citizen. March 13, 1954. Originally appeared in the Saturday Review, New York.

A Great Artist’s Legacy Is Often Those He Has Taught. James Felton. Philadelphia Bulletin. March 4, 1979; reprinted in The Double Reed. Vol. 3, No. 2 (1980): p. 31.

Oboists Pay Homage to Tabuteau. Samuel Singer. Philadelphia Inquirer. March 5, 1979; reprinted in The Double Reed. Vol. 3, No. 2 (1980): p. 32.

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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.