Klarinet Archive - Posting 000113.txt from 2001/12

From: Neil Leupold <leupold_1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Gigliotti and tenure
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 22:28:26 -0500

Nobody disputed that.

--- Josh <eliazor@-----.net> wrote:
> 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
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karl Krelove" <kkrelove@-----.com>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 12:40 PM
> 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?
> > > --
> > > ***************************
> > > ** Dan Leeson **
> > > ** leeson0@-----.net **
> > > ***************************
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