Marcel Tabuteau: How Do You Expect to Play the Oboe If You Can't Peel a Mushroom?

Marcel Tabuteau: How Do You Expect to Play the Oboe If You Can't Peel a Mushroom?
by Laila Storch

Marcel Tabuteau: How Do You Expect to Play the Oboe If You Can't Peel a Mushroom?
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Author: Laila Storch
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-04-16
ISBN: 0253349494
Number of pages: 624
Publisher: Indiana University Press

Book Reviews of Marcel Tabuteau: How Do You Expect to Play the Oboe If You Can't Peel a Mushroom?

Book Review: You feel like you actually met the man
Summary: 5 Stars

I second all of the above reviews and add that it dovetails nicely with "Sound in Motion" by McGill.

Summary of Marcel Tabuteau: How Do You Expect to Play the Oboe If You Can't Peel a Mushroom?

Laila Storch is a world-renowned oboist in her own right, but her new book honors Marcel Tabuteau, one of the greatest figures in 20th-century music. Tabuteau studied the oboe from an early age at the Paris Conservatoire and was brought to the United States in 1905, by Walter Damrosch, to play with the New York Symphony Orchestra. Although this posed a problem for the national musicians' union, he was ultimately allowed to stay, and the rest, as they say, is history. Eventually moving to Philadelphia, Tabuteau played in the Philadelphia Orchestra and taught at the Curtis Institute of Music, ultimately revamping the oboe world with his performance, pedagogical, and reed-making techniques.

In 1941, Storch auditioned for Tabuteau at the Curtis Institute, but was rejected because of her gender. After much persistence and several cross-country bus trips, she was eventually accepted and began a life of study with Tabuteau. Blending archival research with personal anecdotes, Storch tells a remarkable story in an engaging style.

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