Charles-David Lehrer received the D.M.A
in Performance from the University of
Michigan in 1968. He earned his B.A. in Music Education from Trenton
State College and
M.M. in Performance from Boston University. During those years
he studied oboe with John de Lancie, Louis Rosenblatt, Alfred
Genovese, and Ralph Gomberg. A New York debut in Carnegie Recital
Hall on March 7, 1980 led to three recordings for the Orion label.
His reconstruction of the slow movement of Beethoven's Oboe
Concerto in F Major can be heard on the first of the Orion
discs.
The initial research for this article
was undertaken by Dr. Lehrer in France, Italy, and Germany during
the spring of 1987 and was made possible through a generous grant
from the Joseph P. Healey Endowment, administered by the University
of Massachusetts. This award was presented to Lehrer in May of
1986 at the University's Amherst campus, where he was a professor
of music from 1968 until 1987. At present, Charles-David Lehrer
is a Graduate Fellow in Historical Musicology at the University
of California, Los Angeles.