Klarinet Archive - Posting 000131.txt from 1998/06

From: <KlarBoy@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Neidich's tongue and Marcel Tabuteau
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 22:57:22 -0400

Charlie Neidich doesn't flutter tongue in the Weber, he double-toungues, just
like most of his students. Something we all should think about working on.
There was after all, a time when oboists, bassoonists, and flutists didn't do
it either, and now they all have to. I think that Marcel Tabuteau, was largely
responsible for this.

For those of you who don't know who Tabuteau was, he was Principal Oboe in
Philadelphia for many years under Stokowski and later Ormandy. He is often
credited as the founder of the American school of wind playing, as it came
from France. He along with other French emigrees established their beach-head
in Philadelphia and the Curtis Institue. David McGill, principal bassoonist
in the Chicago Symphony is compilling an autobiography and has intervied
several of the country's finest orchestral musicians, and recorded their
observations. One of the interviews was with the late, great, Harold Wright,
and he claimed that the very nature of the American clarinet sound was
strongly influenced by Tabuteau and his teachings at Curtis. The French
flutist Marcel Moyse is another of the great influences on us.

Yadda yadda yadda, boy have I digressed, sorry!!

Ciao a tutti,
Mario Estrada,
FWCS

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