Marcel Tabuteau First-Hand

MT era oboe

Recollections by Laila Storch and Arthur Grossman, Members of the Soni Ventorum Wind Quintet

07 August 2002, Banff, Canada

Terry B. Ewell. The Double Reed. Vol. 25, No. 4 (2002): pp. 17-22. Tabuteau cited on pp. 17,18, 21, 22. https://www.idrs.org/publications/85-the-double-reed-2002-25-4/#page=18.

Terry B. Ewell is bassoon, music theory, and online professor at the Department of Music at Towson University. A professional musician for almost 40 years, he has received recognition as a performer, teacher, scholar, and administrator. For seven years he served as principal bassoon of the Hong Kong Philharmonic, principal in the Wheeling Symphony, and acting principal bassoon of the West Virginia Symphony. He has performed with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, and the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra. He performed as orchestra soloist and chamber musician with major ensembles both here and abroad.

Terry has recorded for Musical Heritage Society, Hong Kong Records, Pickwick Records, Cambria Records and Naxos. In 2018 he traveled to Spain to give a presentation at the International Double Reed Society Conference. Dr. Ewell served four years as President of the International Double Reed Society, Executive Committee Officer of the National Association of Schools of Music, and serves as an accreditation evaluator for the National Association of Schools of Music.

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07 August 2002, Banff, Canada

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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.