Clarence Karella

[hbcrandy]

I got the Youtube link that is below off of Jonathan Dorn's Tuba Fan Page. It is Clarence Karella playing the solo tuba part.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1umDANR41KM
Do any of you know anything about Mr. Karella such as his background, where he studied and played, etc.? I do know that he was one the the players that was considered to replace Philip Donatelli in the Philadelphia Orchestra before Mr. Torchinsky but only lasted about a year. I asked Mr. Torchinsky about Karella. Mr. Torchinsky said that he knew that Karella was with Philadelphia briefly but it did not work out. He did not know the reason why. Mr. Torchinsky also said that he thought Karella was played in the Hollywood studios after his brief stint in Philadelphia. Anymore information on Clarence Karella would be appreciated.

[EdFirth]

I think he also played a season for Jake in Chicago and I seem to remember it being in Wind and Song or Portrait of an Artist. There's a picture of him on Dale Hale's "Cool Tubas" site with his Martin. That's all I got. Ed

[bort]

"Philly Orch, AFM Arbitrate Snarl", VARIETY, Mar 16, 1949, p. 38

The Philadelphia Orchestra and the Musicians Union settled the dispute over the symphony's lone tuba player at an arbitration meeting before Judge Noehem S. Winnet which averted a threatened strike by the longhair tooters.

Clarence Karella, a member of James Petrillo's Chicago local, came to this city at the start of the Orchestra's season and Local 77, the AFM's Philly unit, refused to accept his transfer, arguing that a local tuba player should have been given the job. Under the agreement Karella will be permitted to work until April 23, the date of the last local concert of the season. He will be replaced by Abe Torchinsky, of the NBC Symphony, who is a member of Philly's Local 77.

[bort]

This is a little cumbersome to read, but it's a cached view of an internet page that doesn't seem to exist anymore.

http://www.zoominfo.com/CachedPage/?arc ... me=Karella

[brianf]

This is really going to open up a big can of worms, nothing to do with Clarence Kardella.

The page referenced from Zoominfo is material taken off my webpage in 2008! It is part of the Multimedia version of Arnold Jacobs: Song and Wind, something that we were working on combining the book with more pictures, audio, video files of Mr. Jacobs and the research notes which this came from. Parts of this was put on an inaccessible part of my web page for a very short period of time for testing where it was snatched. While this can be an important resource for the brass world, the project was scrapped because it could never recover the hefty development costs. Today, six tears later seeing this, scrapping the project was the right decision.

Told you that I was opening up a big can of worms!

[pgym]

http://www.zoominfo.com/p/Clarence-Karella/1283335315" target="_blank

http://www.dalehale.com/Bio&Pics/Article3.htm" target="_blank

http://best-intown.com/CoolTubas/LyonHe.htm" target="_blank

[hbcrandy]

Thank you all for the information.