Daniel Stolper. The Double Reed. Vol. 4, No. 1 (1981): pp. 16-26. Tabuteau cited on pp. 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25. https://www.idrs.org/publications/145-the-double-reed-1981-4-1/#page=20
Daniel Stolper was a graduate of the Eastman School of Music where he studied with Robert Sprenkle. While still a student, he played beside his teacher in the Rochester Philharmonic and the Eastman-Rochester Symphony. After graduation, he did further work with Robert Bloom, John Mack, and Heinz Holliger. In the early 1950s he took private lessons with Marcel Tabuteau. After receiving his BM, MM, and the Performer’s Certificate in oboe, he joined the San Antonio Symphony as principal oboist, a position he held for five seasons. He later played first oboe in the New Orleans Philharmonic.
In the late ’60s, Dan joined the faculty of Michigan State University at East Lansing, and became first oboist of the Lansing Symphony Orchestra and member of the Richards Quintet. In the late ’70s, he joined the faculty of the Interlochen Center for the Arts. He gave master classes here and abroad, and served on the juries of important international competitions. He recorded for Mercury/EMI, Columbia, and Crystal Records.
Dan was editor of the Double Reed Magazine, the publication of the International Double Reed Society, from the society’s inception in 1972 until his death in 2020.
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