Klarinet Archive - Posting 000093.txt from 2001/12

From: Ed Wojtowicz <ewoj@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Gigliotti and tenure
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 10:14:11 -0500

I believe that Drucker joined the orchestra in 1948. His bio is at
http://www.nyphilharmonic.org/
I don't think he became Principal until 1960 or 61.

Ed

> From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
> Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 06:23:20 -0800 (PST)
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Gigliotti and tenure
>
> I don't have an exact answer to your question, and I had the same reaction
> you did, but it's important to read the article carefully. It states that
> his tenure with the Philadelphia Orchestra is believed to be the longest
> of any *principal* clarinetist with an orchestra in the nation. Drucker
> may have been with the NY Phil for 53 years to date (joined at the age of
> 19), but if my memory is correct, he did not join the orchestra as prin-
> cipal clarinetist. That didn't happen until a few years later. However
> I can't remember exactly when the appointment occurred. For some reason,
> the number 21 comes to mind which, if correct, still makes him the longest
> tenured principal clarinetist in the nation, not Gigliotti. Does anybody
> know at what age Drucker was appointed principal?
>
> --- Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net> wrote:
>> In reading the obituary of Gigliotti, I was struck by the assertion that
>> he was the longest tenured clarinetist of any orchestra in America.
>>
>> I am so very sorry that we have lost this great artist, but is the
>> assertion about his tenureship correct? I was under the impression that
>> Drucker's tenureship with the NYP to be the longest of any clarinetist
>> in America.
>>
>> Perhaps the statement was true at the time of his retirement. I don't
>> know. Can anyone enlighten me on this?
>> --
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>> ** Dan Leeson **
>> ** leeson0@-----.net **
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