Klarinet Archive - Posting 000192.txt from 2010/01

From: Jeffrey James <jamesarts@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Clarinetist Stanley Drucker in Concert with The Nassau-Suffolk Youth
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:15:54 -0500

January 29, 2010
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@-----.net

Clarinetist Stanley Drucker in Concert with The Nassau-Suffolk Youth
Band on January 31 at Tilles Center for the Performing Arts in
Brookville, New York

Legendary clarinetist Stanley Drucker will be in concert with The
Nassau-Suffolk Youth Band on Sunday, January 31 – 3 PM at the Tilles
Center for the Performing Arts on the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island
University, 720 Northern Boulevard in Brookville, New York. Mr. Drucker
will perform von Weber’s Concertino and Rossini’s Introduction, Theme
and Variations with the ensemble.

The Nassau-Suffolk Youth Band’s parent, Nassau Suffolk Performing Arts,
is a non-profit organization which was founded in 1994 in order to
provide talented student musicians from across Long Island and the
metropolitan area with additional rehearsal and performance
opportunities in the concert band, jazz band, and vocal jazz genres.
More about them at http://nassausuffolk.org/.

Tickets for the January 31 concert are $26.50, students and seniors
$16.50. For tickets and more information, please call TillesCharge at
516-299-3100 or visit http://www.tillescenter.org/.

At the conclusion of the 2008-2009 season, New York Philharmonic
Principal Clarinet Stanley Drucker celebrated 60 years as a member of
the Orchestra and announced his retirement. In honor of his 50th
anniversary, and in recognition of his highly respected and widely
acknowledged musical excellence and dedication, he was named Musical
America's 1998 Instrumentalist of the Year. He has made approximately
190 solo appearances with the Philharmonic since joining it at age 19.

The Philharmonic estimates that he has performed in 10,200 concerts,
which is approximately 70% of the total number of their concerts since
1842. He has been Principal Clarinetist for a record 48 years, playing
under 9 Music Directors, among them Bruno Walter, Dmitri Mitropolous,
Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez and Zubin Mehta. He has performed in 60
countries on tour. More about him, including a downloadable bio, photos
and video, is available at
http://jamesarts.com/releases/june09/drucker_060109.htm.

For press inquiries about Stanley Drucker, contact Jeffrey James Arts
Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@-----.

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Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
45 Grant Avenue
Farmingdale, NY 11735 USA
Tel: 516-586-3433
E-mail: jamesarts@-----.net
Website: http://www.jamesarts.com

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