Klarinet Archive - Posting 000099.txt from 2001/12

From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Gigliotti and tenure
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 12:40:46 -0500

Although I wouldn't want to see this thread overshadow Gigliotti's
accomplishments and his contributions to orchestral world, it may be useful
to know that the writer if the obit wasn't anyone I recognize as a regular
music writer. Perhaps he got the information from someone in the orchestra's
publicity office. My first reaction was the same as yours. But, I also seem
to remember, as Ed points out, that Drucker didn't become principal until
after Bernstein became music director in 1958, giving Gigliotti several
seasons' head start as principal, and Gigliotti has only been away from the
Philadelphia Orchestra, I think, for three full seasons before this one (one
with Don Montanaro playing, one with Burt Hara, and one with Sam Caviezel).

Karl Krelove

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Leeson [mailto:leeson0@-----.net]
> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 8:09 AM
> To: klarinet
> Subject: [kl] Gigliotti and tenure
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> 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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