[1] Bloom is considered seminal in the development of an American school of oboe playing.
[2] At the Curtis Institute of Music Bloom was a pupil of Marcel Tabuteau for three years.
[2] In the 1930s he played English horn in the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski and first oboe in the Rochester Philharmonic under José Iturbi.
[1][2] Recordings by the Bach Aria Group featuring Bloom started appearing from the late 1940s.
[1] His pupils include William Bennett,[6] Bill Douglas,[7] Tim Hurtz,[8] Richard Killmer,[9] Bert Lucarelli,[10] Ray Still,[10][11] Allan Vogel,[10] and Richard Woodhams,[2] In the spring of 1988, friends, colleagues, and former pupils gathered in Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in New York for an 80th-birthday tribute.