Marcel Tabuteau First-Hand

MT era oboe

Radio Broadcast Programs

In November of 1929, the Curtis Institute of Music began presenting a series of weekly radio broadcasts over the Columbia Broadcasting System that continued for many years. Tabuteau’s students were featured for the first time as part of the seventeenth broadcast on March 28th, 1930. Some programs were printed and are shown below. In April of 1944 through April of 1945, Tabuteau conducted for a series of broadcasts from the Westinghouse Radio Station K.Y.W. studios in Philadelphia. Those programs are also displayed below. If you possess or know of any other Curtis radio broadcast programs conducted by Marcel Tabuteau that should be added to this website, please click Submissions.

These programs were provided courtesy of the Curtis Institute of Music.

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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.