Mitchell lurie clarinetist
Mitchell Lurie got his early training from the Peter Mermeblum California Junior Symphony, a popular training orchestra in the Los Angeles area. The exceptional Lurie was soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at age 16. After finishing his schooling at the renowned Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, he was asked to join conductor Fritz Reiner, who was then with the Pittsburgh Symphony. World War II intervened, and Lurie eventually joined Reiner with the Pittsburgh Symphony as principal clarinetist. When Reiner moved to the Chicago Symphony in 1950, Lurie went along and was principal clarinetist there for two years.
In 1952, Lurie moved back to California, where he taught for many years at USC as professor of clarinet and chamber music. During this time, he designed reeds, mouthpieces, and other accessories for woodwinds, eventually creating his own line of products. The Mitchell Lurie "Rico" brand is still popular today.
In addition to being a member of various orchestras, having a long career as soloist, and performing the solo of two world-premier concertos, Lurie performed the scores for dozens, if not hundreds, of movies.
A few years before his death, Lurie designed a new clarinet, the Tyro, which is intended for beginning students as an inexpensive, user-friendly instrument. The instrument is sold today.
Lurie died on November 4, 2008. He was survived by his wife of 63 years, two sons, five grandchildren, and a great-grandchild.
BornMarch 9, 1922
DiedNovember 24, 2008(86)
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Mitchell Lurie got his early training from the Peter Mermeblum California Junior Symphony, a popular training orchestra in the Los Angeles area. The exceptional Lurie was soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at age 16. After finishing his schooling at the renowned Curtis Institute in Philadelphia, he was asked to join conductor Fritz Reiner, who was then with the Pittsburgh Symphony. World War II intervened, and Lurie eventually joined Reiner with the Pittsburgh Symphony as principal clarinetist. When Reiner moved to the Chicago Symphony in 1950, Lurie went along and was principal clarinetist there for two years.....Continue Reading-
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Mitchell Lurie-Clarinet / Leona Lurie-Piano 1980's. Master Class in Jerusalm, Isreal....
MITCHELL LURIE.......One of the great students of Daniel Bonade. I studied with him from 1966 to 1971. He told me a story during my lessons about a recurring dream he was having. He was in his 40's at that time and well into a very successful career as orchestra and L.A. Studio player. He told me..."I keep having a dream..." he said, "that I was in a lesson with Bonade and I was not prepared". He told me how nervous he was playing "unprepared" for the Master, Bonade. As I think of that time (and Bonade was still living) I wonder if he was telling me that I should practice more. I think he was empathic. He felt his students "pain" and related it to his own
Mitchell Lurie dies at 86; world-renowned clarinetist taught at USC
Mitchell Lurie, a world-renowned clarinetist and clarinet teacher who taught for many years at USC and the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, has died. He was 86.
Lurie, who had been in ill health in recent years, died of pneumonia Monday at his home in West Los Angeles, said his son, Dr. Alan Lurie.
A Brooklyn native who grew up in Los Angeles, Lurie was the principal clarinetist for the Pittsburgh Symphony and then the Chicago Symphony in the late 1940s.
He then launched a long career in Hollywood as a top clarinetist for film studios and became a distinguished chamber musician, who may have been best known for his numerous performances with the Budapest String Quartet and the Muir String Quartet.
Pablo Casals, the great Spanish cellist and conductor with whom Lurie once performed, called him the “ideal clarinetist.”
“He was the preeminent clarinetist of the latter part of the 20th century, the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s,” David Howard, a longtime clarinetist for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, told The Times.
Howard praised Lurie for playing “with an incredible singing quality, with an unmistakable tone and a wonderfully refined musicality.”
As a soloist, Lurie performed the 1967 West Coast premiere of Aaron Copland’s Clarinet Concerto, with the composer conducting; and he later performed the U.S. premiere of Pierre Boulez’s “Domaines,” also with the composer conducting.
Lurie made numerous recordings over the decades, but one of the more noteworthy was his CD of the Brahms and Mozart clarinet quintets, which are the central chamber music pieces for the clarinet.
“He recorded both of those with the Muir Quartet, and he did it when he was 70 years old,” Howard said. “Any clarinetist will tell you those are the definitive recordings of those pieces.”
As a clarinetist for major film studios, Lurie played on the scores for movies such as “The Apartment,” “Dr. Zhivago” and “Mary Poppins