In Monday’s (3/26) Plain Dealer (Cleveland), Grant Segall writes, “Stanley Ross Maret played contrabassoon for the Cleveland Orchestra for 35 years and led the Cleveland Ethical Society. Maret died Wednesday, March 21, at an Alzheimer’s facility in near his home in Sun City West, Az. He was 85. … He earned a bachelor’s degree from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., and a master’s from the University of Colorado. He also studied at the University of Illinois. He played bassoon for the Denver Symphony for about six years. He taught at the Oberlin College Conservatory for a year. In 1962, Maret auditioned for a Cleveland Orchestra opening for a contrabassoonist. He played his usual bassoon, which has a higher range. He won the job and quickly mastered the lower instrument. He played many solos in works by Ravel, Mahler, Stravinsky and Mozart. He also played in several small woodwind groups, including quintets at Oberlin and at Cleveland State University. He also taught at CSU and Baldwin-Wallace College. His widow, the former Anne Leslie Arnold, said he loved the demanding conductor George Szell.”
Posted March 28, 2012
