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musician, double-bassist, composer, music teacher
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2021-03-01 11:47:59
Oboe star, 100, reads her story on Slipped Disc
Many happy returns to Laila Storch! Full story here.
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2021-02-28 19:01:12
This trailblazing oboist is 100 today and still playing
The pianist Jon Kimura Parker reminds us that today is his mother-in-law’s 100th birthday. She is the celebrated Laila Storch, first woman oboe student of Marcel Tabuteau at the Curtis Institute, and subsequently principal oboe at the Houston Symphony, Marloboro and the Casals Festivals. She wrote a biography of Tabuteau and taught at Washington, Bloomington […]
2018-06-25 07:00:00
Los Angeles TimesJerry Storch, a former chief executive of Toys R Us, has been working with multiple investors on a plan to reboot the defunct toy retailer in the United States, ...
2017-06-05 21:14:39
Intermezzo (a love story)
This week we dig deep into the mature works of Richard Strauss: his 1924 Intermezzo, labeled a “bürgerliche Komödie mit sinfonischen Zwischenspielen.” The glorious and beloved Elisabeth Söderström tackles the fiendishly difficult role of Christine in a 1974 performance from Glyndebourne conducted by John Pritchard sung in English. Strauss himself wrote the libretto based on real events in his life. The story is a fluffy drawing room comedy about a shrewish wife’s jealousy over an affair by her husband, who happens to be a composer with the initials R.S., Robert Storch. It is eventually revealed that in a simple case of mistaken identity the damning correspondence was meant for another musician with the similar surname of Stroh. The opera ends with renewed vows of love by the couple. Lotte Lehmann, who created Christine, is reported to have congratulated Strauss’ notoriously bitchy wife, Pauline, on receiving such a gift, to which […]
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