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Article: Still's oboe still brings pleasure
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- Chicago Sun-Times
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- January 27, 1988
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Part of the distinctive sound of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
for the last 35 years has been the oboe of Ray Still.
Brought to the orchestra by Fritz Reiner, Still has given the
ensemble the kind of distinctive playing that Leon Goosens had
offered Thomas Beecham's London Philharmonic in the 1930s and Marcel
Tabuteau contributed to the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold
Stokowski and Eugene Ormandy.
Symbolically, the decline in standards after Reiner's departure
brought an attack on Still (which he survived), and the last 19 years
with Georg Solti have been a renewed affirmation of his artistry.
Tuesday he was the featured artist, with friends, in an
Orchestra Hall recital of ...