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Drawing on five years of research and well over 100 interviews with students, colleagues, and family members of flutist Marcel Moyse, author McCutchan distills a truthful, vital portrait of this charismatic, complex, and sometimes puzzling man.
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Endpapers: Moyse's sketch of St. Amour, circa 1943.
Copyright 1994 by Amadeus Press (an imprint of Timber Press, Inc.) All rights reserved.
ISBN 0-931340-68-3
Printed in Singapore
AMADEUS PRESS The Haseltine Building 133 S.W. Second Ave., Suite 450 Portland, Oregon 97204-3527, U.S.A.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McCutchan, Ann. Marcel Moyse : voice of the flute / by Ann McCutchan ; discography by Susan Nelson and William Shaman. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-931340-68-3 1. Moyse, Marcel, 18891984. 2. FlutistsFranceBibliography. I. Title. ML419.M69M3 1994 788.3'2'092dc20 93-33357 [B] CIP MN
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Contents
Foreword
by Paula Robison
7
Preface
by Louis Moyse
9
Introduction
13
Prologue: St. Amour
19
Chapter One: Early Years
23
Chapter Two: First Flute
31
Chapter Three: Paris Conservatoire
43
Chapter Four: A Career
69
Chapter Five: Opra-Comique
89
Chapter Six: Le Matre
119
Chapter Seven: War
151
Chapter Eight: A New Life
171
Chapter Nine: Expanding the Legend
191
Chapter Ten: Grand Old Man of the Flute
207
Postlude
217
Notes
221
Selected Bibliography
233
Publications of Marcel Moyse
239
Discography
by Susan Nelson and William Shaman
241
Index
319
Illustrations follow page 96
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Foreword
by Paula Robison
In the early 1960s a lucky band of American flute players gathered in Brattleboro, Vermont, to study with Marcel Moyse. We were all changed forever. I can only describe the experience as a kind of alchemy: when we walked into Mr. Moyse's studio we were one kind of player, and when we left we were another. We were richer, deeper. We were shaken, exhilarated, and illuminated.
How did he get me to play like that? we asked ourselves. And later, in the waiting stillness of our practice rooms, How can I ever play that way again?
In our minds, we tried to recreate his gesturing hands, his sparkling eyes, his voice coaxing and pulling the music out of us.
With life! Life! he exclaimed.
But what did that mean? Happy? No...
Tender?
Intense?
Vivid?
Strong?
His life was certainly all of those things. Maybe it was all of them together.
His eyes! That's it. Think of his eyes.
As the rest of his body grew frail, Marcel Moyse's eyes burned brighter and brighter. And sometimes he was impatient. Why? He wanted to give us something. He wanted us to understand what he held out to us: the culture of a proud people, a composer named
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Claude Debussy who could evoke joy and pain in a single note, another named Gabriel Faur who had the look in his eyes of a lion longing for his far-off home, and whose music was ecstasy contained in a shapely classical form.
But how can I play like that again? How can I find that SOUND again?
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