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Arnold Jacobs Clinic at 1984 International Brass Congress. Mr. Jacobs begins at the 8 minute mark.
Source: Windsong Press
Breathing Exercises with Arnold Jacobs
Photo from a Holton Brochure, circa 1958
Arnold Jacobs (1915 – 1998) was born in Philadelphia on June 11, 1915 but raised in California. The product of a musical family, he credits his mother, a keyboard artist, for his initial inspiration in music, and spent a good part of his youth progressing from bugle to trumpet to trombone and finally to tuba. He entered Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music as a fifteen-year-old on a scholarship and continued to major in tuba. After his graduation from Curtis in 1936, he played two seasons in the Indianapolis Symphony under Fabien Sevitzky. From 1939 until 1944 he was the tubist of the Pittsburgh Symphony under Fritz Reiner. In 1941 Mr. Jacobs toured the country with Leopold Stokowski and the All-American Youth Orchestra. His was a member of the Chicago Symphony from 1944 until his retirement in 1988.
Mr. Jacobs received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the International Tuba – Euphonium Conference held at Northwestern University in 1995.
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