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Re: Tabuteau's influence

Author: seabreeze
Date: 2020-03-07 07:40

Shannon produced a video, The Signature Sound of Daniel Bonade, that you can see on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+signature+sound+of+Daniel+Bonade. But her study focuses on Bonade and his main students rather than Tabuteau or McLane. McLane knew Bonade but was a formal student first of the Italian-born Augusto Vannini (who was with the Boston Symphony from 1903 ro 1926) and most famously of Gaston Hamelin. McLane even followed Hamelin back to France to take lessons.

This question about whether Tabuteau had a direct stylisic influence on McLane could be addressed to the Facebook public group, "Harold Wright and Ralph McLane Appreciation Page." Students of Wright regularly contribute and if there are any students of McLane still around they might be found there.

According to "Clarinet Central," McLane once told a student that he could teach everything Bonade taught in just "two days," and there is little evidence that McLane tried in any way to emulate Bonade, so studying accounts of Bonade's style in the orchestra might be a step in the wrong direction. It is well known, in fact, that Stanley Hasty said he didn't care for the "sounds that were coming from Philadephia" when Bonade was playing and teaching there and elected instead to study with McLane, whose style and sound he preferred. Of course, McLane could have been influenced by Tabuteau without much influence from Bonade.

Post Edited (2020-03-07 17:26)

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