Marc Mostovoy’s Photos in Nice

Photographs taken during the summers of 1962 and 1964

Posing with oboe on his terrace
Posing with oboe on his terrace for Marc, 1964
Demonstrating in his apartment
Demonstrating in his apartment for Marc, 1964
A candid shot catching Tabuteau off-guard in his apartment
A candid shot catching Tabuteau off-guard in his apartment, 1964
Posing on his terrace
Posing on his terrace for Marc, 1962
Marcel & Louise Tabuteau
Marcel & Louise Tabuteau, posing for Marc on their terrace, 1962
Marcel Tabuteau & Marc Mostovoy
Marcel Tabuteau & Marc Mostovoy posing on Tabuteau’s terrace, 1962. Photo by Louise Tabuteau [Mme. Tabuteau was having difficulty with the camera when taking this rather ‘foggy’ photo. Marcel’s perplexed expression says it all!]
Louise Tabuteau & Marc Mostovoy
Louise Tabuteau & Marc Mostovoy, posing on Tabuteau’s terrace, 1962. Photo by Marcel Tabuteau
Showing off on his terrace
Showing off on his terrace for Marc, 1962
Tabuteau’s reed-making desk
Tabuteau’s reed-making desk, taken in his apartment, 1962
Tabuteau on the corner outside his apartment building
A candid shot of Tabuteau on the corner outside his apartment building waiting for a bus to take him to the casino, 1962

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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.