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Ray Still (March 12, 1920 – March 12, 2014) was an American classical oboist. He was the principal oboe of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for 40 years, from 1953 to 1993. Early life [ edit ]
Ray Still (1920–2014) was the first oboist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1953–1993. He played under almost all the major conductors of the last half of the 20th century and recorded much of the oboe solo repertoire with artists such as the Fine Arts Quartet, Itzhak Perlman, Pinchas Zukerman
Teaching and Family. Ray Still taught at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore (1949-53), Roosevelt University in Chicago (1954-1957), and for 43 years as professor at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He and his wife of 72 years, Mary Brock of Kansas City, Missouri, had four children, six grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
Mar 12, 2014 · Ray Still was famous for being the best of the best, one of the finest and longest-tenured orchestral oboe players of all time. He played oboe in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for an astonishing ...
An introduction to Ray Still's book Playing the Oboe, which tells the story of how he fell in love with music and lays out a basic overview of the oboe techniques explained in later chapters: Breath, Embouchure, Tongue, and Fingers.
Ray Still (March 12, 1920 - March 12, 2014), was the first oboist of the Chicago Symphony for forty years. He enjoyed a long and distinguished career in orchestral, solo, and chamber music. He played under almost all the major conductors of the last half of the 20th century, and recorded much of the repertoire for oboe solo and ensemble.
Mar 13, 2014 · The legacy of Ray Still as an unforgettable musician is preserved not only in the dozens of recordings he made through four decades as principal oboe of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, but also in the vivid memories of musicians whose lives he influenced, among them Eugene Izotov and Michael Henoch, the CSO’s current principal oboe and ...
