Klarinet Archive - Posting 000860.txt from 1997/09

From: peter.stoll@-----.ca
Subj: Re: Tabuteau
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 13:32:49 -0400

I once heard a story in which Tab., in order to "test" a new student,
assigned an impossible amount of work for the week (test what I'm not
sure). Well, about Friday or so, a courier shows up with a shoebox at
Mr.Tabuteau's front door. Inside, the student's oboe, chopped up into many
little pieces in overwrought frustration! Apparently Tabuteau was so
chagrined he arranged with Loree to get a replacement instrument.

Makes you wonder about these legendary teachers. Maybe they could teach,
but with the kind of attitudes being described, I like to think we've
moved onto a better age of music education. Like the stereotype of the
mean spinster piano teacher scaring the hell out of the neighbourhood's
children!

Peter Stoll
Instructor of Clarinet and Chamber Music
University of Toronto