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Ray Still was born on 12 March, 1920 in Elwood, Indiana, is a Ray Still was American classical oboist American classical oboist. Discover Ray Still's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 94 years old?

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Age 94 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 12 March, 1920
Birthday 12 March
Birthplace Elwood, Indiana
Date of death 2014
Died Place Woodstock, Vermont
Nationality United States

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1920

Ray Still (March 12, 1920 – March 12, 2014) was an American classical oboist.

He was born March 12, 1920, in Elwood, Indiana, and moved to Los Angeles as a teenager.

He started studying the clarinet at 14, and volunteered as an usher at Los Angeles Philharmonic concerts, where he heard the Belgian oboist Henri de Busscher, whose “singing” style inspired him to switch to the oboe at 16.

His first oboe teacher was Philip Memoli, who played second oboe to de Busscher in the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

1941

From 1941-1943, Still was a member of the US Army Signal Corps Reserves and studied electrical engineering at Pacific States University.

1943

He was in the US Army from 1943 to 1946, and worked mainly in radar.

1946

Still enrolled in the Juilliard School of Music in New York in the summer of 1946 and attended for almost two years.

He studied oboe at first with Bruno Labate, and later with Robert Bloom, the principal oboist for Arturo Toscanini’s NBC Symphony, even though Bloom did not teach at Juilliard.

Still’s style of oboe playing had elements of both the more relaxed European style and the more controlled American style, with the singing tone he admired in de Busscher, Labate, and Bloom.

For example, one of his students, Michael Rosenberg, has played in German orchestras, where the American style is not popular.

1953

He was the principal oboe of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for 40 years, from 1953 to 1993.

1954

He played principal oboe on almost all of the recordings by the Chicago Symphony from 1954–1993, and he played principal oboe in the opera “Samson and Delilah” recorded with the NBC Symphony under Stokowski in the early 1950s, filling in for Robert Bloom.

1970

The American style came primarily from Marcel Tabuteau, who had taught Robert Bloom at the Curtis Institute; Still said that up to the early 1970s, he was the only principal oboist in a major US orchestra who had not studied with Tabuteau.

1985

He was most flattered when reviewers compared him to great singers, as a reviewer in London did when he played oboe concerti with the Academy of London in 1985, or to great jazz musicians, as a reviewer did in a review of his recording of the Bach Wedding Cantata.

His oboe positions with professional orchestras were:

Still also had an extensive career performing and recording chamber music, including at the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado, the Marlboro Festival in Vermont, and the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario, Canada, which used to include a music festival.

He performed and coached students at numerous other music festivals in Europe, Japan, China, Korea, and Mexico.

His oboe teaching positions included:

2003

Following his retirement from Northwestern in 2003, he moved to Annapolis, Maryland, with his beloved wife Mary and son James to live near family.

He continued to give master classes and lessons there.

2010

Northwestern invited him to present a series of master classes in 2010 in honor of his 90th birthday, an event that was also observed the week of his birthday on the Chicago classical music radio station WFMT.

WFMT played many of his recordings and a two-hour audio documentary about his career that week.

He had many private students as well.

Many of his students went on to play in major orchestras and teach at major universities around the world.

His former students include Sherie Aguirre, Stephen Caplan, Ricardo Castaneda, Mark Christianson, Peter Cooper, John Dee, Marc Gordon, Michael Henoch, Yoko Kojima, Humbert Lucarelli, Patrick McFarland, Jane Marvine, Robert Morgan, Nora Post, Christopher Raphael, Michael Rosenberg, Grover Schiltz, Mark Seerup, Ian Shafer, Robert Sheena, Carl Sonik, Linda Strommen, Rudy Vrbsky, and Keisuke Wakao.

2012

Mary and James died in 2012.

2013

In 2013, he moved to Saxtons River and later Woodstock, Vermont, to live near family.

2014

He died in Woodstock, Vermont, on his 94th birthday (March 12, 2014), surrounded by family and listening to Bach's St. Matthew Passion.