Robert Marcellus and his Clarinets
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- Robert Marcellus (1928-1996) represented the highest level of artistry in orchestral clarinet playing. His career spanned a period when orchestral clarinet playing in America had reached a zenith as represented by giants such as Ralph McLane, Anthony Gigliotti, Clark Brody, Stanley Drucker, Robert McGuinness, Iggy Gennusa, Gino Cioffi and Harold Wright. Marcellus was also a master teacher and was the head of the clarinet department for many years at Northwestern University. His longtime student and lifelong friend, jazz clarinet great Dr. Ron Odrich, has put together a video aided by the talents of the superb repair technician, Tomoji Hirakata. In it, they examine the famous Buffet clarinets, Kaspar mouthpieces, Morré reeds and Bonade ligature that have become legendary in trying to recreate the Marcellus sound. Dr. Odrich also recounts many personal and musical anecdotes from his relationship with Mr. Marcellus. Enjoy this moving tribute to one of the great instrumentalists of the 20th Century.
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Fantastic documentary. As a fellow clarinetist, you know how little quality viewing is out there. So I truly thank you for putting this together.
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 🎶🇺🇸🇬🇧
Awesome. Thank you
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!
Enlightening! Fortunate to have briefly studied with Mr. Marcellus in Evanston
Thanks for the video. I play on his Ann arbor kaspar he used in The Mozart recording. My most prized possession
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.
Always a good day when master Joffe makes a post!
Appreciated this interesting vide
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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! ♪♫
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.
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?
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!
Loved, Loved , LOVED this documentary… thanks for all the info ! God speed to you Ed and Dr Odrich.
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Priceless! Thanks to all involved in crafting this.
Thank You Thank You so much for sharing this personal experience . Just a wonderful way of remembering this thru maestro in the woodwind family.
A terrific retrospective! Many thanks.
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.
I love this video. Thank you.
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
Great Video! Thank You for sharing.
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
Just great !
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 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.
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.”
Thank you very much, Dr. Oldrich/JoffeWoodwinds
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, ♪♫
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 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.
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.
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 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