Klarinet Archive - Posting 000219.txt from 2001/12

From: Mike Dowler <syo@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Gigliotti and tenure
Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 16:20:26 -0500

Unless my email math is even worse than yours, haven't 40 rather than
50 years passed since he became principal?

Mike

>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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