Marcel Tabuteau First-Hand

MT era oboe

Recording Reviews

Marcel Tabuteau’s Lessons

Belfy, Jeanne Marie. Marcel Tabuteau’s Lessons. The Double Reed. Vol. 21, No. 3 (1998): 79-83. Tabuteau review on pp. 81-82.

Distler, Jed. http://www.classicstoday.com/review/review-8089/ (Online review).

Howe, Robert. Review: Marcel Tabuteau’s Lessons. The Double Reed. Vol. 21, No. 3 (1998): 71-72.

McGill, David. Marcel Tabuteau’s Lessons:  Recommended Recordings. Sound in Motion. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. Tabuteau review on pp. 341-342.

Ritter, Stephen. Ritter reviews Marcel Tabuteau’s Lessons. Record Guide. Vol. 60, No. 4 (1997) p. 216. Reprinted under Oboe CD Reviews in The Double Reed. Vol. 22, No. 1 (1999): pp. 111-117. https://www.idrs.org/publications/70-the-double-reed-1999-22-1/#page=116. Tabuteau review on p. 114.

Marcel Tabuteau Excerpts

Belfy, Jeanne Marie. Marcel Tabuteau Excerpts. The Double Reed. Vol. 21, No. 3 (1998): 79-83.

McGill, David. Marcel Tabuteau Excerpts:  Recommended Recordings. Sound in Motion. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007. Tabuteau review on p. 341.

Prades Festival of 1950

Record Review. Traverse City Record Eagle (Traverse City, MI), December 22, 1950.

New Records. Time Magazine, January 8, 1951.

The Oboe: 1903-1953

Ewell, Terry. Oboe Recording Reviews: The Oboe 1903-1953. The Double Reed. Vol. 29, No. 1 (2006): 144-145. https://www.idrs.org/publications/98-the-double-reed-2006-29-1/#page=146. Tabuteau referenced on p. 144.

Finkelman, Michael. Oboe Recording Reviews: The Oboe 1903-1953. The Double Reed. Vol. 29, No. 1 (2006): 135-138. https://www.idrs.org/publications/98-the-double-reed-2006-29-1/#page=136. Tabuteau referenced on pp. 135, 138.

Record Reviews / Music Commentary by David McGill

Record Review / Music Commentary by James Morgan Thurmond

(from Note Grouping: A Method for Achieving Expression and Style in Musical Performance, Chapter 7, Analysis 4;  JMT Publications, 1982. (pp. 117-119).

George Frederick Handel. Oboe Concerto in G Minor

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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.