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Author: joe englert
Date: 2026-05-18 00:54
Just wondering...I am loving the old orchestra videos on you tube lots of Chicago with Brody, Boston with Wright...New York with Mcginnis but I have Yet to find a Cleveland with Marcellus..anyone know of any? cheers
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2026-05-18 15:08
Since you mention Wright and Brody, you must not need accompanying video. I should think much of the available Szell recordings should be with Robert Marcellus. Just an amazing wind section with John Mack on oboe and Myron Bloom on french horn.
.............Paul Aviles
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2026-05-19 03:20
Yes, wonderful archives!
For my perspective, a terrific insight into how he felt about clarinestistry and musicianship.
.............Paul Aviles
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Author: Ed
Date: 2026-05-19 05:00
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Just an amazing wind section with John Mack on oboe and Myron Bloom on French horn
There were a few marvelous oboists over that time. Al Genovese played for one season. Marc Lifschey was also there for a number of years until a conflict with Szell.
(FWIW, Marcellus told me that he thought Lifschey was the finest of them)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Lifschey
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Author: joe englert
Date: 2026-05-20 04:55
yes,,,i am on one one those recordings,,i am not talking about recordings..i am wantig to see videos/movies etc of marcellus in the old cleveland szell orchestra,,cheers
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Author: joe englert
Date: 2026-05-20 04:59
THANK YOU BUT YOU DONT UNDERSTAND,,I AM LOOKING FOR VIDEOS NOT RECORDINGS,,WOULD LOVE TO SEE MARCELLUS PLAYING IN THE GROUP BUT I DONT THINK ANY VIDEOS EXIST AT THAT TIME
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Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2026-05-20 06:59
Ok, can you share a link to Brody on video?
As I look across past history you can see that it took sometime to establish HOW to put a large orchestra on film. The earlier attempts were more Karajan and Berlin, Boston Pops, NY Phil........Pittsburgh Symphony (a regular series with Previn). You can't really fault Szell for not jumping on that bandwagon.
..............Paul Aviles
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Author: kdk
Date: 2026-05-20 21:40
Just parenthetically, I looked for videos on YT of "Cleveland Orchestra Szell" and actually found a number of them, but they all shared one common feature: almost all the video was of Szell, very little of the orchestra musicians. I wonder if that was a director's call or Szell's. I found watching him from the orchestra's view quite interesting, since I only heard and saw the Cleveland Orchestra once in a live concert, and of course only saw Szell from the back.
A perhaps interesting recollection:
The orchestra arrived for the concert at the Philadelphia Academy of Music barely in time for the concert. No time for warmup or sound check. They had time to change into tuxes and get out on the stage. The first piece on the program was Prelude to die Meistersinger. Marcellus started the first solo passage and almost *nothing* came out. The reed, I guessed, was either not on straight or way harder than he had counted on. Between that and the next solo, which comes along fairly soon, he managed to fix the problem, and the rest was fine.
Obviously, that first entrance failure made more of an impression on me than the rest of the concert (I don't even remember what else they played). But as an 18-year-old attending one of my first Academy of Music concerts, I learned what a disaster not being able to warm up before a concert can be.
Karl
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