Editing Arnold Jacobs (section)

==Life and performing career==
Jacobs was born in [[Philadelphia]] on June 11, 1915, but was raised in [[California]]. Jacobs' family enjoyed music and he credited his mother, a keyboard artist, for his initial interest in music.  He spent his youth progressing from [[bugle (instrument)|bugle]] to [[trumpet]] to [[trombone]] and finally to [[tuba]]. When he was fifteen years old, he entered Philadelphia's [[Curtis Institute of Music]] on a scholarship and continued to major in tuba.

After his graduation from Curtis in 1936, he played two seasons in the [[Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra]] under [[Fabien Sevitzky]]. From 1939 until 1944, he was the tubist of the [[Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra]] under [[Fritz Reiner]]. In 1941, Jacobs toured the country with [[Leopold Stokowski]] and the All-American Youth Orchestra. He was a member of the Chicago Symphony from 1944 until his retirement in 1988. 

During his forty-four year tenure with the [[Chicago Symphony Orchestra]] (CSO), he took temporary leave in the spring of 1949 to tour England and Scotland with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He was on the faculty of [[Western State College of Colorado|Western State College]]'s Music Camp at [[Gunnison, Colorado]], during the early 1960s. In June 1962, he had the honor of being the first tuba player invited to play at the [[Casals Festival]] in [[Puerto Rico]]. Mr. Jacobs and with colleagues from the CSO were part of the famous 1968 recording of [[Giovanni Gabrieli|Gabrieli]]'s music with members of the Philadelphia and Cleveland Orchestras. He was also a founding member of the Chicago Symphony Brass Quintet, appeared as a soloist with the CSO on several occasions, and recorded the [[Ralph Vaughan Williams|Vaughan Williams]] ''Concerto for Bass Tuba and Orchestra'' with [[Daniel Barenboim]] conducting the Chicago Symphony. In recognition of his outstanding career, in 2001, the Chicago Symphony's tuba chair was dedicated as the Arnold Jacobs Principal Tuba Chair, Endowed by Christine Querfeld. Jacobs was succeeded in the CSO by [[Gene Pokorny]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Principal Tuba - Gene Pokorny|url=https://cso.org/about/performers/chicago-symphony-orchestra/tuba/gene-pokorny/|website=cso.org|language=en|access-date=2020-05-12}}</ref>