Marcel Tabuteau First-Hand

MT era oboe

Articles/Advertisements Referencing Marcel Tabuteau

The articles below are listed chronologically. The longer articles have been edited to be Tabuteau specific.

Union Fines Damrosch $1000. The Sun. June 1905.

Personal Notes of Interest in the City’s Social World. The Evening Journal. Wilmington, DE. October 9, 1915.

First Production Tonight of Polish Music Work. Philadelphia Evening Ledger. February 1, 1917.

Crawford Is In Washington For Music FestivalThe Coe College Cosmos (Cedar Rapids, IA). April 26, 1928.

Coolidge Chamber Music Events. The Sunday Star, Washington. April 29, 1928.

Molzer Wins Award. The Nebraska State Journal (Lincoln, NE). April 24, 1938.

Simfonietta Plays Thursday. Linton Martin. Philadelphia Inquirer. October 16, 1938.

Tabuteau with Orchestra. Philadelphia Bulletin [probably]. 1944.

There was Music in the Air. Philadelphia Record. March 12, 1946.

Music: Mainly About Bach. Philadelphia Inquirer [probably]. c. 1943-1947.

Novelty Numbers to be Played by Philadelphians. The Sunday Star, Washington, DC. March 23, 1947.

Orchestra Plans to Bring Famous Artists Here. The Sunday Star, Washington, DC. February 28, 1948.

The World of Music: Pilgrimage to Prades. Ross Parmenter. New York Times. April 23, 1950.

1.000 Mélomanes français et étrangers au Festival Bach dans l’église de Prades. Perpignan, June 3 (1950). [The festival took place in Prades, but this article was published in a Perpignan newspaper.]

Prades Festival. Carl Anton Wirth. Tuscon Daily Citizen (Tuscon, AZ). December 18, 1950.

Variations Theme And. Carl Anton Wirth. News-Palladium (Benton Harbor, MI). October 25, 1952.

Philadelphian Selects His Musical Instruments. The Philadelphia Inquirer. September 19, 1953, p. 39.

Charles McKee Obituary. Harry Warner. Morning Herald (Hagerstown, MD). April 7, 1976.

Farewell to the Master Leaving his Musical Mecca. Daniel Webster. Philadelphia Inquirer. July 10, 1983.*

Mallard Fillmore. Bruce Tinsley. King Features Syndicate, c. 1994.

Classical Music; At Peace in the Lonely Realm of the Oboe. James Oestreich. New York Times. July 9, 1995. Tabuteau referenced in paragraphs 23-27, 29, 42.

Musicality by the Numbers. Chris Pasles. Los Angeles Times. March 30, 2008. Tabuteau referenced throughout. Also found here.

Curtis Institute taps orchestras of Philly and Baltimore for new faculty. Peter Dobrin, Philadelphia Inquirer, April 14, 2022.

*Reprinted in IDRS publications

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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.