Marcel Tabuteau First-Hand

MT era oboe

Playing the Oboe (Alone)

In Philadelphia

Backstage at the Academy of Music
Backstage at the Academy of Music
From the Jerry Pierce Collection on Daniel Bonade, International Clarinet Association Research Center, Special Collections in Performing Arts, University of Maryland
From the Jerry Pierce Collection on Daniel Bonade, International Clarinet Association Research Center, Special Collections in Performing Arts, University of Maryland
The above photo of Marcel Tabuteau appeared in Life Magazine in 1945.
This photo of Marcel Tabuteau appeared in Life Magazine in 1945
Posing backstage at the Academy of Music
Posing backstage at the Academy of Music
This photo appears on the front cover of a record jacket for a recording issued by Coronet Recording Company entitled: Marcel Tabuteau ‘Art of the Oboe.’
This photo appears on the front cover of a record jacket for a recording issued by Coronet Recording Company entitled: Marcel Tabuteau ‘Art of the Oboe.’
Tabuteau on stage at the Academy of Music, 1951
Tabuteau on stage at the Academy of Music, 1951
Testing oboes at the Academy of Music
Testing oboes at the Academy of Music

In France

Tabuteau practicing outdoors at La Coustiéro
Tabuteau practicing outdoors at La Coustiéro

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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.