Laila Storch is Professor Emerita of Oboe at the University of Washington School of Music and a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, where she studied with Marcel Tabuteau.

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Accessing the Audio Files

1. Compiègne and the Tabuteau Family

2. Paris Conservatoire: Tabuteau's Studies with Georges Gillet, 1902-1904

3. Arrival in America: Walter Damrosch and the New York Symphony Orchestra, 1905-1908

4. The Metropolitan Opera: Singers and Conductors of the "Golden Age," 1908-1914

5. San Francisco Interlude: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition Orchestra, 1915

6. The Philadelphia Orchestra: The Stokowski Years, 1915-1940

7. Tabuteau as Soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra: 1915-1954

8. Tabuteau at the Curtis Institute of Music: 1924-1946

9. Lessons with Tabuteau: My Arrival in Philadelphia, January 1943

10. My First Year with Tabuteau at the Curtis Institute: October 1943-May 1944

11. Tabuteau Conducts the Curtis Orchestra: Fall 1944-Spring 1945

12. Tabuteau's Summers in Canada: Salmon Fishing in Nova Scotia

13. Another Year of Study with Tabuteau: 1945-1946

14. Summers in France: The Pingouinette; Back to Philadelphia, 1948

15. Tabuteau's Last Years at the Curtis Institute: 1946-1954

16. The Casals Festivals in Prades and Perpignan: 1950, 1951, and 1953

17. Tabuteau as Seen by His Philadelphia Orchestra Colleagues

18. Retirement in France: La Coustiéro, 1954-1959

19. Tabuteau's Final Years in Nice: 1959-1966

20. Philadelphia Postlude: Tabuteau's Playing; His Musical Ideas and Influence

Appendix 1. Introduction and Text Transcription for the Tabuteau-Wolsing Audio Files

Appendix 2. The Students of Marcel Tabuteau at the Curtis Institute of Music

Appendix 3. The Tabuteau System: Essay and Outline by Marc Mostovoy

Glossary of Terms Used by Oboists

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index