Klarinet Archive - Posting 000110.txt from 2001/12

From: Josh <eliazor@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Gigliotti and tenure
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 19:55:11 -0500

If I am correct, Drucker is still with the NYP at the present. So that
means it is more 50. It makes him the longest player.

Josh
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From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.com>
Subject: RE: [kl] Gigliotti and tenure

> 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
> >
> >
> > 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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