How blessed you were to have been able to study with him, and to become close friends. Thanks so much for this lovely deep dive into his instruments and his remarkable legacy. He set a standard to which any of us who have ever picked up a clarinet can aspire to for a lifetime.
Very nicely done and an important documentary. One correction should be noted: The 1947 Buffet catalogue has the top of the line listed as R13! Which replaced the Modelle 13. Later R13's did have the differences Mr. Hirakata noted. Therefore both clarinets were indeed different version of the R13. I personally had one from two years later SN: 102418 which was picked for me by Kieth Stein (formerly Chicago Symphony) who seemed to have a special relationship with the importer Carl Fischer. It was the 4-5 of each 100 R13s that Mr. Stein was on the lookout for. These were the master instruments. I studied later with Mr. Stein (1973?) and during a lesson there was a knock on his door and a UPS driver exchanged a package for a signature. "Look at this." Kieth Stein said as he opened the box to examine his own Buffet R13. "This is my A clarinet and it came all the way back from Japan. Yamaha had borrowed it to learn how to make better clarinets!"
Wow, in the Rosamunde excerpt, the extraordinary resonance is really striking....like on throat A, the note is as resonant as bell B, for Pete's sake! The projection of the sound, even in the piano dynamic, is what you don't hear much now. People use 'special' barrels, etc to try to get that effect, but I don't hear the same thing; that sound does not ping like Marcellus' does. Thanks so much for this really informative and important video!
This video is a great service to us all. I was his student at Northwestern in 1975-76, and one day he was teaching me the Beethoven "Pastoral" and he demonstrated the triplet solo at the end of the first movement. He had a photo of Pablo Casals inscribed "to Robert Marcellus, Ideal clarinetist," and that was his Beethoven 6 up close--ideal. He was an unusually articulate man of great self-possession and of course at Northwestern we all quite worshiped him, so this memoir by you gives a great deal of perspective. My memory may be faulty, but I believe he played Stravinsky's Three Pieces for Stravinsky, who coached him on it. If you know anything about the details of this encounter, could you post it?
I got to study with Mr. Marcellus right before he lost his sight. He contacted Kaspar to sell me Bb, Eb and Bass Clarinet mouthpieces. I apparently got his last ones as Kaspar wrote telling me that now he could go fishing! Mr. Marcellus was not only a wonderful clarinetist but also a kind, great man. I am better for knowing him.
I know the clarinets you're talking about. I was a very close friend of his and Marian. It's very important to remember his clarinets were set up by Hans Moening.
Fantastic video need to see this several times Much to learn. I have of course got Mr Marcellus’s great Mozart concerto recording. God bless you. Bill. Uk 🎶🇺🇸🇬🇧
Wonderful documentary! Thank you! You are fortunate to have known and worked with a Master. I, too, have an R-13 clarinet that was worked on by Hans Moenning. Even though I have used and owned other Buffets and Selmers over the decades, I return to this clarinet, as it feels like home. A place where I can sing.
Did this video just give me a close-up look at what I consider the holiest relic of the entire clarinet universe, the actual A clarinet from Marcellus’s Mozart recording? Did I just fulfill a decades-old fascination with seeing and admiring this amazing historic artifact? My lord, I feel like I’ve just leveled up in life! Thank you thank you THANK YOU for sharing this!
Just wonderful sir, just wonderful. For people who play clarinet, (for me, it is the clarinet one of the most intringuing and beautiful sounding instruments in the history of mankind). Ok, we know the role of the sax in jazz, but jazz is about clarinet performance, mastering all the techniques out there. THE WORLD OF THE CLARINET IS A WORLD WOTIOUT WORDS. Thanks for sharing mister Odrich, grt Oscard_Amsterdam
C Winfield Swarr. I just came accross this and found it fascinating. Thanks very much for the historical information. I once attempted to study with Marcellus while a student at Oberlin College near Cleveland. The clarinet teacher there was terrible and I asked the school if I could go into Cleveland and study with Marcellus. The college would not allow me to do that, although a couple of years later they did allow students make that change after many of us had transferred out. I transferred to the New England Conservatory in Boston and studied with Cioffi. After graduating from school, during the vietnam war, I played in the army band and Richmond Symphony. While there I studied with Harold Wright and during that time came into posession of a set of clarinets that were prepared for Wright by Moenig. I keep trying other instruments, but have been unable to find anything that comes close.
Thank you for the great historical content! Even down in Europe some of us are very interested in the world journey of the clarinet, and his stars! Great! All the best!
Wonderful in every way. Thank you so much. The equipment IS a means of discovery for the player. Enabling one to achieve the sound one hears in one´s head.
"The equipment IS the means of discovery for the player" this should be on the wall of every clarinet teacher/player's studio....oh IF ONLY that philosophy could be embraced by the present generation of clarinetists and their TEACHERS. GREAT equipment will always teach YOU to do the CORRECT thing...thanks again for posting Ed. I got to see this video a few weeks back and it inspires me so much to see it here as well...let it reach thousands :) 😄
Très beau reportage ....Merci.... Un immense clarinettiste qu'était Robert Marcellus... et le concerto de Mozart avec l'orchestre de Cleveland et Georges Zell une référence et un modèle inégalé ... Pour moi en tous cas... Merci pour cet enregistrement que je possède .....
And here I was thinking my use of Teflon tape on the cork of my mouthpiece was original and uniquely insightful. It also is a quick fix for a pad that falls out of a key, in a single layer it doesn’t leak, not that I’ve tried more layers. “The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.”
Thanks for this incredibly well-done work! I studied with RM during the late 60s and later 1970s. Do you have the facing measurements for any of the Kaspars that he played? I make my own reeds with a ‘Dual and face my own mouthpieces. He was such an inspirational teacher and player: many of us wouldn’t have had any success without him. Chris Sereque
Szell recorded it with Cleveland in 1965 inSeverance Hall. Szell’s version of the Octet was initially issued on LP and then reissued as part if a Centennial CD Edition set in 1997. Neither are available but perhaps eBay might offer a possibility.
@@emjay2045 Stanley Drucker won the Curtis audition Bob also tried for. Drucker was chosen. The Glass mouthpiece was a brief experiment which was used on one of the Schubert symphony recordings and quickly abandoned. Ron Odrich
i was in his master class in the 80s and took several classes with him and brody privately as well...he knew what he thought was right and wasnt too receptive to other opinions,,,such as vibrato being a big no no except in gershwin...brody was much more open minded
Fantastic documentary. As a fellow clarinetist, you know how little quality viewing is out there. So I truly thank you for putting this together.
How blessed you were to have been able to study with him, and to become close friends. Thanks so much for this lovely deep dive into his instruments and his remarkable legacy. He set a standard to which any of us who have ever picked up a clarinet can aspire to for a lifetime.
Very nicely done and an important documentary. One correction should be noted: The 1947 Buffet catalogue has the top of the line listed as R13! Which replaced the Modelle 13. Later R13's did have the differences Mr. Hirakata noted. Therefore both clarinets were indeed different version of the R13. I personally had one from two years later SN: 102418 which was picked for me by Kieth Stein (formerly Chicago Symphony) who seemed to have a special relationship with the importer Carl Fischer. It was the 4-5 of each 100 R13s that Mr. Stein was on the lookout for. These were the master instruments. I studied later with Mr. Stein (1973?) and during a lesson there was a knock on his door and a UPS driver exchanged a package for a signature. "Look at this." Kieth Stein said as he opened the box to examine his own Buffet R13. "This is my A clarinet and it came all the way back from Japan. Yamaha had borrowed it to learn how to make better clarinets!"
Thanks for the video. I play on his Ann arbor kaspar he used in The Mozart recording. My most prized possession
Enlightening! Fortunate to have briefly studied with Mr. Marcellus in Evanston
Wow, in the Rosamunde excerpt, the extraordinary resonance is really striking....like on throat A, the note is as resonant as bell B, for Pete's sake! The projection of the sound, even in the piano dynamic, is what you don't hear much now. People use 'special' barrels, etc to try to get that effect, but I don't hear the same thing; that sound does not ping like Marcellus' does. Thanks so much for this really informative and important video!
This video is a great service to us all. I was his student at Northwestern in 1975-76, and one day he was teaching me the Beethoven "Pastoral" and he demonstrated the triplet solo at the end of the first movement. He had a photo of Pablo Casals inscribed "to Robert Marcellus, Ideal clarinetist," and that was his Beethoven 6 up close--ideal. He was an unusually articulate man of great self-possession and of course at Northwestern we all quite worshiped him, so this memoir by you gives a great deal of perspective.
My memory may be faulty, but I believe he played Stravinsky's Three Pieces for Stravinsky, who coached him on it. If you know anything about the details of this encounter, could you post it?
I got to study with Mr. Marcellus right before he lost his sight. He contacted Kaspar to sell me Bb, Eb and Bass Clarinet mouthpieces. I apparently got his last ones as Kaspar wrote telling me that now he could go fishing! Mr. Marcellus was not only a wonderful clarinetist but also a kind, great man. I am better for knowing him.
Claritastic and Clarific ❤❤❤❤
I know the clarinets you're talking about. I was a very close friend of his and Marian. It's very important to remember his clarinets were set up by Hans Moening.
Always a good day when master Joffe makes a post!
Fantastic video need to see this several times Much to learn. I have of course got Mr Marcellus’s great Mozart concerto recording. God bless you. Bill. Uk 🎶🇺🇸🇬🇧
Thank You Thank You so much for sharing this personal experience . Just a wonderful way of remembering this thru maestro in the woodwind family.
Wonderful documentary! Thank you! You are fortunate to have known and worked with a Master. I, too, have an R-13 clarinet that was worked on by Hans Moenning. Even though I have used and owned other Buffets and Selmers over the decades, I return to this clarinet, as it feels like home. A place where I can sing.
Did this video just give me a close-up look at what I consider the holiest relic of the entire clarinet universe, the actual A clarinet from Marcellus’s Mozart recording? Did I just fulfill a decades-old fascination with seeing and admiring this amazing historic artifact? My lord, I feel like I’ve just leveled up in life! Thank you thank you THANK YOU for sharing this!
I fully share your appreciation! ♪♫
Just wonderful sir, just wonderful. For people who play clarinet, (for me, it is the clarinet one of the most intringuing and beautiful sounding instruments in the history of mankind). Ok, we know the role of the sax in jazz, but jazz is about clarinet performance, mastering all the techniques out there. THE WORLD OF THE CLARINET IS A WORLD WOTIOUT WORDS. Thanks for sharing mister Odrich, grt Oscard_Amsterdam
C Winfield Swarr. I just came accross this and found it fascinating. Thanks very much for the historical information. I once attempted to study with Marcellus while a student at Oberlin College near Cleveland. The clarinet teacher there was terrible and I asked the school if I could go into Cleveland and study with Marcellus. The college would not allow me to do that, although a couple of years later they did allow students make that change after many of us had transferred out. I transferred to the New England Conservatory in Boston and studied with Cioffi. After graduating from school, during the vietnam war, I played in the army band and Richmond Symphony. While there I studied with Harold Wright and during that time came into posession of a set of clarinets that were prepared for Wright by Moenig. I keep trying other instruments, but have been unable to find anything that comes close.
Thank you for the great historical content! Even down in Europe some of us are very interested in the world journey of the clarinet, and his stars! Great! All the best!
Awesome. Thank you
Loved, Loved , LOVED this documentary… thanks for all the info ! God speed to you Ed and Dr Odrich.
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Great documentary, thank you for sharing so much amazing information and knowledge. Ron Odrich is a jazz genius.
Martin,
Glad you enjoyed it. It took years of nagging Ron to get it done.
Did you ever release your recording made at Curtis several tears back?
Ed
Wonderful in every way. Thank you so much. The equipment IS a means of discovery for the player. Enabling one to achieve the sound one hears in one´s head.
"The equipment IS the means of discovery for the player" this should be on the wall of every clarinet teacher/player's studio....oh IF ONLY that philosophy could be embraced by the present generation of clarinetists and their TEACHERS. GREAT equipment will always teach YOU to do the CORRECT thing...thanks again for posting Ed. I got to see this video a few weeks back and it inspires me so much to see it here as well...let it reach thousands :) 😄
I love this video. Thank you.
Appreciated this interesting vide
Priceless! Thanks to all involved in crafting this.
Thank you very much, Dr. Oldrich/JoffeWoodwinds
A terrific retrospective! Many thanks.
Great Video! Thank You for sharing.
Très beau reportage ....Merci.... Un immense clarinettiste qu'était Robert Marcellus... et le concerto de Mozart avec l'orchestre de Cleveland et Georges Zell une référence et un modèle inégalé ... Pour moi en tous cas... Merci pour cet enregistrement que je possède .....
Merci!
And here I was thinking my use of Teflon tape on the cork of my mouthpiece was original and uniquely insightful. It also is a quick fix for a pad that falls out of a key, in a single layer it doesn’t leak, not that I’ve tried more layers.
“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.”
Muchas gracias, un admirador de Marcellus
en este video hay varios tonos, registros de la historia moderna del sonido de este maravilloso e intrigante instrumento, ♪♫
Just great !
Beautiful documentary, what is the name of the piece you feature at the beginning of the video? I LOVE IT!!
Thatt is the tune Yesterdays-a standard by Jerome Kern-and played by Ron Odrich.
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Thanks for this incredibly well-done work! I studied with RM during the late 60s and later 1970s. Do you have the facing measurements for any of the Kaspars that he played? I make my own reeds with a ‘Dual and face my own mouthpieces. He was such an inspirational teacher and player: many of us wouldn’t have had any success without him. Chris Sereque
I’ll check with Ron Odrich who has Bob’s mouthpieces.
What an amazing video, such a treasure trove of information. I would love to know, if similarly, someone has Harold Wright's equipment?
Sorry, I don’t know that answer but I think if anyone does know, it would be Ethan Sloane in Boston.
@@Joffewoodwinds would you be willing to venture that way to enlighten us ?
I’m very interested in the Schubert Octet recording, transcribed for the orchestra mentioned in this video. I can’t find anything about it.
Szell recorded it with Cleveland in 1965 inSeverance Hall. Szell’s version of the Octet was initially issued on LP and then reissued as part if a Centennial CD Edition set in 1997. Neither are available but perhaps eBay might offer a possibility.
I thought Marcellus’ clarinets had a standard Buffet thumb rest, not an adjustable one.
They’ve been modified by their current owner, Ron Odrich-Marcellus’ best friend.
Is that scotch tape wrapped around the mouthpiece tenon?
heard he used a glass mouthpiece as well and that drucker beat him out at some big audition
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@@emjay2045 Stanley Drucker won the Curtis audition Bob also tried for. Drucker was chosen. The Glass mouthpiece was a brief experiment which was used on one of the Schubert symphony recordings and
quickly abandoned.
Ron Odrich
I know all too well how critical a clarinet mouthpiece is to your sound. I see Mr. Marcellus struggled with the same issue.
i was in his master class in the 80s and took several classes with him and brody privately as well...he knew what he thought was right and wasnt too receptive to other opinions,,,such as vibrato being a big no no except in gershwin...brody was much more open minded