Klarinet Archive - Posting 000822.txt from 1999/09

From: Roger Shilcock <roger.shilcock@-----.uk>
Subj: Re: [kl] NY Philharmonic Concert of 9/23
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 21:13:02 -0400

American auto engineering must be a remarkable thing - when a plug lead
broke internally on my 4-cylinder car, it wouldn't move more than a foot
or
two on 3 cylinders.
It's interesting that Drucker gives this impression, though. What music
*would* stretch him???
Roger Shilcock

On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:

> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 1999 05:16:44 -0700
> From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: [kl] NY Philharmonic Concert of 9/23
>
> Last evening I saw the TV show "Live from Lincoln Center" in which the
> NY Philharmonic played Tchaikovsky's 5th, Kurt Masur conducting.
>
> There was a great deal of camera work focusing on Drucker, as there
> should have been since so much clarinet material is prominent and
> it is the custom to focus on solo players.
>
> It is a constant source of amazement to me how wonderfully he is
> still playing. I remember Stanley when he was 17 or so and I thought
> that he was incomparable then, but today he is so very much mutured
> as a player with a remarkable depth to his orchestral playing.
>
> It is clear to me that he is aging physically, but he is by no
> means an old man. He still retains much of his youthful appearance
> but his face is starting to show his age. Fortunately for us,
> his playing is not starting to show its age.
>
> He and I have had differences of opinion on many things musical
> over the years, but for longevity and strength of performance, there
> has been nothing like him in the world of American clarinet playing,
> ever! The position that he holds is certainly among the most
> prestigious in the world, and the pressure must be awesome. Yet
> he holds the chair as if he were born to nothing else, which is
> probably the case. I think he was born without nerves!
>
> He reminds me of a 16 cylinder car that has only about 11 cylinders
> working. That is, there is no piece ever written that required
> him to get all 16 cylinders moving. He is such a master of the
> instrument that the most complicated passages ever written for the
> instrument require only about 11/16ths of his extraordinary talent,
> with the typical work needing only about 7 cylinders from him.
>
> I have seen clarinet players in the position of 1st in the NYP since
> Bellison whose successor was (I think) McGinnis who himself preceded
> Drucker. It's been a hell of a ride.
>
> =======================================
> Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
> leeson@-----.edu
> =======================================
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