Jacobs Masterclass

[Chris]

Oh wise Tubenet,

I recently dusted off some CDs of audio recordings that were made during a masterclass by Arnold Jacobs. These burned discs got me thinking about the volume of this type of resource that may be available and if there is any place to commercially purchase said information.

Thanks for any help,
--Chris

[mikehorsford]

I would check out Wind Song Press. They had a bunch of stuff at their booth at ITEC and on their website they have download-able videos. It's pretty cool stuff.

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[MileMarkerZero]

I assume that you know the entire 1973 master class mp3 is available under the "tips" link of this site. If not, now you do.

[brianf]

volume of this type of resource that may be available and if there is any place to commercially purchase said information

To answer your questions - yes, videos of Mr. Jacobs' Masterclasses do exist, none are available for purchase.

This is a real can of worms. I put together a 2-3 day ten part presentation "Arnold Jacobs Almost Live" which there are samples on my webpage. The idea was to work this in front of a live audience, getting feedback then coming out with a commercial video. Problem is that no one is picking this up and the project is about to be scrapped. If a university will not sponsor a live presentation, would a video product work?

The next problem is costs. Doing a commercial product would cost somewhere around six figures ($100,000+). For me to do it I would have to put a mortgage on my house. A video comes out, for every copy sold, XXX copies are made. Everyone benefits with one exception - that mortgage on my house!

The material exists, its great - I use it every day! The question is how can this come out in a day that technology is way ahead of the law where anyone would be a fool to release something like this?

I'm listening - any ideas?

[WoodSheddin]

The music library at Northwestern University has hours and hours and hours and hours of video tape of Arnold Jacobs teaching in a masterclass setting. He did a regular summer seminar which a lot of people paid to be part of. It was a great program.

I tried to watch as much of it as I could while there for a year. The library though is simply Chicago brass mecca as far as recordings go of all types. I went there many times each week for hours at a time and still did not even scratch the surface.

[tofu]

[brianf]

There is another problem that our fearless leader brought up - these tapes are unedited! The amount of time it takes to sit through them for a few golden nuggets of information is tremendous. When Brue Nelson watched the tapes to do his book, it took two years. It took me three years to go through the tapes that I have (I have more than Northwestern).

There is also another major problem, the students who are playing. Mr Jacobs treated them like a doctor/patient relationship. Many are now playing in orchestras around the world and deserve confidentiality. The full tapes cannot be released because of this, only highly edited portions. The bad part of this is that you lose hearing student after student improve after 15 mintes, a major part of the masterclass. This is part of the reason development costs would be so high.

I do have to comment about paying $5-$10 a day. That was in the early 80's! Towards the end it was $600 for the session. I always left the back door open and anyone who was anyone snuck in. Once the secretary in charge commented that there were far to many people there and she wanted to talk to Mr Jacobs about it. I brought her to the hotel to pick him up and she brought it up. Little did she know that the reason I brought her was to get her out of the way because a dozen people snuck in, Mr Jacobs told some of them about it! I went back years later and noticed that they put an exit alarm on that door.