Arnold Jacobs

Arnold Jacobs ( born June 11, 1915 in Philadelphia; † 7 October 1998) was an American musician.

Jacobs grew up in California. His mother, a gifted pianist, his enthusiasm for music. In his youth he spent much time with music, only on French horn, trumpet, trombone, and finally on the tuba. At the age of 15 he received at Philadelphia 's Curtis Institute of Music, a scholarship and majored in tuba.

After graduating from Curtis in 1936, he played two seasons on the Indianapolis Symphony under Fabien Sevitzky. From 1939 to 1944 he was employed as a tuba player in the Pittsburgh Symphony under Fritz Reiner. In 1941, Arnold Jacobs toured with Leopold Stokowski and the All-American Youth Orchestra of the USA.

Arnold Jacobs was a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO ) from 1944 until his retirement in 1988. During these 44 years he left the orchestra just for taking a tour with the Philadelphia Orchestra in the spring of 1949 by the UK and Scotland.

In the early sixties he worked on the faculty of Western State College 's Music Camp in Gunnison ( Colorado). In June 1962, he was invited as the first tuba players to play festival in Puerto Rico on Casals. Arnold Jacobs, together with colleagues from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and members of the Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestra, recorded on the famous recordings of Gabrieli's music.

Arnold Jacobs was a founding member of the Chicago Symphony Brass Quintet, performed as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and other orchestras. Among other things, he played a Concerto for Bass Tuba and Orchestra by Ralph Vaughan Williams, along with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Barenboim.

Arnold Jacobs is known around the world as an excellent tuba player and music teacher. He taught tuba at Northwestern University School of Music and taught as a private tutor all wind instruments. He was one of the most sought after teachers in the world, especially in the respiratory and motivation range brass and woodwind instruments as well as vocals. His students included members of various orchestras and music academies around the world.

Arnold Jacobs gave lectures all over the world. In January 1978, he gave a lecture at the Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, he talked about making music with wind instruments as therapeutic treatment of asthmatic children. Between 1980 and 1998 he offered every summer master classes at Northwestern University. In 1985, he received from the Midwest Clinic their highest award, the Medal of Honor in 1994 awarded him the Chicago Federation of Musicians for his life's work with the Living Art of Music Award.

Richard M. Daley, Mayor of Chicago, called on 25 June 1995 as Arnold Jacobs Day.

Arnold Jacobs was awarded in 1986 by the Vander Cook School of Music, and later in June 1995 on the occasion of his eightieth birthday of DePaul University honorary doctorate of music.

On 7 October 1998 Arnold Jacobs died at 83 years.

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