Ardash Marderosian

Hello to all who've posted here. I want to say a "thank you" from my sister, brother and me for all the wonderful, heartfelt postings here. I loved the one from you, Larry, referring him to sometimes "grouchy"...SOMETIMES? Hmmm...LOL! Thank you so, so much for taking the time to share some of your memories and thoughts of him with us here on the site. He certainly will never be forgotten by many; not just his kids! It is also hugely comforting know he has joined back up with my Mom - he...

To The Marderosian Children,

I am so sorry to be late writing this missive. Both your Dad and Mom were very special people. I would never have known them if there were not a choral position open at York High School -- I was the department chair making the hire. My good friends Bill and Barbara Geis knew your parents and suggested Judy for the job. The hire of your mother was one of the smarter moves in my career, and with that began my relationship with Ardash -- and what times...

I met Ardash when he first came to study at the University of Illinois. He usually practiced his trombone on the same floor of the music annex as I did and I saw him almost every day. The annex was across from Smith Music Hall. He was a very nice guy and a serious student. I remember when he first started dating his wife, Judy. She was an outstanding pianist and leader in her class. After the couple bought their house in Western Springs, Judy had a small reunion of Illinois music grads...

I met Ardash through Arnold Jacobs. They seemed to have a mutal admiration club and Ardash would come to me for breathing toys so he could spread the word about Arnold in his various trips to Poland. He was a fine man and a great loss to the music world.

I did not know Ardash well, but enjoyed performing with him a few times in the 1970's before I became the bass trombonist with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in 1975. May he rest in peace.

Ardash was and remains my inspiration. He and he alone is the reason I have had a 30 year career as Principal trombone of the Nashville Symphony. I began to study with him while in High School and never looked back - I had found my guru! I deeply loved Ardash and Judy and the day I won the auditon in Nashville (my first full-time job in the US) he was the first one I called and thanked. Ardash was creative and demanding. He fostered my need to become a critical thinker for analysis and, in...

I met Ardash when I joined the Grant Park Orchestra and the Lyric Opera Orchestra in 1968. We had a few rough encounters at first, but our relationship became mutually cordial over time. Some of my fondest memories of those years center around Ardash -- from his multiple missed entrances at a rehearsal of the drunk scene in Bucceroo's Hoiday from Copland's Rodeo Suite -- with Copland conducting! (Ardash had left his music at home but up to that point had played faultlessly) -- to a visual...

He will be missed by our family.He was a kind friendly neighbor. We loved hearing him play the trombone.He always looked forward to the local trick or treaters in the neighborhood. we are sad to hear this news so late, sorry we were not able to make the funeral.

The Kedzuch's