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Doublereed Archive - Posting 000079.txt from 2004/04

From: Barbara Trautwein <mzeztee@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [DR-L] Quote of the Day
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 10:06:36 -0400

Laila Storch has tidbits from this time. . . .if I've got it straight,
Tabuteau cooked for Toscanini. . .I mean REALLY cooked food for him and
Laila got to be there in the capacity of "kitchen help" or "server". . .
ahhhh, she is no longer on the list. . .Arthur G. ? Could you be
persuaded to get her to share her memories of this time?

2 cents from

b

Oboeeee@-----.com wrote:

>"...this is my favorite story about Tabuteau. One afternoon I asked him if
>there was any time in his career that he thought was the high point. "Well," he
>said, just like that, "When Toscanini came to conduct the Philadelphia
>Orchestra in the forties and fifties--pension concerts for the orchestra, some of
>which were recorded. Here was the most intense, cerebral conductor, engaging the
>most romantic orchestra that had ever been developed--Stokowski's orchestra.
>Toscanini in Philadelphia. Unforgettable." Then he hesitated, and looking out
>over his balcony in Nice toward the mountains, and he said, "There were a few
>good notes." This was the most humble thing I had ever heard a great man say
>about his life."
>
>-Joseph Robinson, Principal Oboe, New York Philharmonic Orchestra
>"Career Choices and Music Advocacy: Joseph Robinson Talks with Nora Post"
>The Double Reed, Volume 22: 1999
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