Frederick Jacobi.1950.

Frederick Jacobi (right) with composer Bohuslav Martinů, preparing for a League of Composers concert.

Frederick Jacobi. Saxophonist in the U.S. Army Band, Alcatraz Island. Jacobi had hoped to enlist in the Medical Crp, but the recruiting officer learned that he was a musician, he order him to play in the army band—despite Jacobi's protest that he had never played the instrument.

Frederick Jacobi and his wife, pianist Irene Schwarcz Jacobi, American Embassy Theater. Paris, 1950.