Klarinet Archive - Posting 000170.txt from 1998/06

From: "Carl Schexnayder" <carlsche@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Neidich's tongue and Marcel Tabuteau
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 17:59:56 -0400

Hi Mario,

If you don't mind, explain your method of double tonguing to us.

Thanks,
Carl Schexnayder

Mario wrote:

>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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