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In Reply to: RE: Well, not exactly... posted by C.B. on March 13, 2011 at 19:58:03
It is said that Claudio Abbado felt that Ray Still's style combined the "... best of the European and American schools, without the weaknesses of either...". What do you think these strengths and weaknesses are?
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Is the oboe soloist in the linked video below Ray Still? I've been curious for several years now..........
George Szell conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra..........
Interestingly, Still was not a student of Tabuteau, but of the great Robert Bloom (one of Tabuteau's first students at Curtis) who was the principal of the NBC Symphony under Toscanini, until he was replaced by the gawd-awful Paolo Renzi.
"You weren't afraid of being born--why would you be afraid of dying?" Alan Watts
What's funny is I never cared for Still's upper register, except for that Szell clip........ I thought Still was magnificent in that clip. It seems like Szell had a big influence on "wind sound", which was not necessarily unique to Cleveland.
Well, I can only surmise that Abbado was referring to the fact that Still played with somewhat more vibrato than most.
As for weaknesses? Being an American woodwind player, I really can't think of any! ;-)
"You weren't afraid of being born--why would you be afraid of dying?" Alan Watts
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