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Author: rtmyth
Date: 2008-01-11 13:21
He is retiring in 2009. Major article in today's NYT. A living legend.
richard smith
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Author: Ed
Date: 2008-01-11 15:19
What a brilliant career! I somehow cannot the NY Phil without him. He is certainly a one of a kind. No matter what, he always seems as if he is still loving what he is doing and having a great time. I have never heard him just go through the motions. He always sounds fresh. Stanley also is amazing in that he has continued to have incredible chops throughout all these years. What an inspiration.
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Author: John J. Moses
Date: 2008-01-11 15:40
Say it isn't so, Stanley...please!
I just sat next to the great Drucker playing Schostakowitsch 4th Symphony with the Philharmonic, and he sounded as great as ever.
He is an inspiration to us all, and a living legend. I can't imagine his 60 year career with the NY Phil. ever being surpassed by another Clarinetist.
May he enjoy his retirement, family, and many friends, for a very long time to come.
The Clarinet World is a better place because of Stanley Drucker.
JJM
Légère Artist
Clark W. Fobes Artist
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Author: dgclarinet
Date: 2008-01-11 16:22
I sure hope that somebody is planning on writing a history/autobiography of Drucker's NY career. It really is incredible to think about everything he's seen...Walter, Bernstein, etc...Bellison, McGinnis, etc. All the music...it's just impossible to even imagine.
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Author: Kevin
Date: 2008-01-11 16:52
You can't replace someone like Mr. Drucker, but is it too early for us to start pondering possible candidates to take the job?
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2008-01-11 19:31
Wow. Stanley Drucker has been playing with the NY Phil. since the year I was born.
>>When asked about his postretirement plans, he joked, 'I'm going to become a professional bum,' he said but added later that he intended to keep playing.>>
Now there's a thought. You're walking past a subway station entrance in downtown Manhattan. You pass an open clarinet case strewn with bills and coins. You toss in a dollar without much of a glance at the shabby, smelly guy sitting on the steam grate, the guy wearing the filthy gray raincoat, the bushy, food-daubed beard and the shoulder-length hair that looks as if he washes it about once a year and doesn't own a hairbrush. Then he starts playing something from the last movement of the Copland concerto. It suddenly occurs to you that the joking comment and the serious one were not mutually exclusive, and you whirl around to take a closer look....
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
To hear the audio, click on the "Scorch Plug-In" box above the score.
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Author: Tobin
Date: 2008-01-11 22:42
Sorry Lelia, (and sorry to detract from a great thread)
We just tried that is Joshua Bell in DC. The populace failed on that one.
James
Gnothi Seauton
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Author: J. J.
Date: 2008-01-11 23:03
Its not too early. People have wondered for years who will take over and this will only add to that.
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Author: Fontalvo
Date: 2008-01-11 23:18
Greg Raden, Mark Nuccio, Richie Hawley, Ricardo Morales, Scott Andrews, and other young players of this caliber seem suited to take over a position of that magnitude.................what do you all think????????????
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Author: GBK
Date: 2008-01-11 23:25
Fontalvo wrote:
> Greg Raden, Mark Nuccio, Richie Hawley, Ricardo Morales, Scott
> Andrews, and other young players of this caliber seem suited to
> take over a position of that magnitude.................what do
> you all think????????????
After the dust settles from the CSO audition this month, I would assume you would see many of the same names in the final round of the NYP audition...GBK
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Author: vin
Date: 2008-01-11 23:32
It is a pointless exercise to speculate who will be the next Principal Clarinet. Let's keep this about Drucker and his accomplishments. Chicago took 3 auditions to fill Arnold Jacobs' spot, Philadelphia took a long time to find a replacement (let's not forget Burt Hara turned them down); it's often a long process. We can list all the names of every single great clarinet player in the country (we've had that thread before) and we could still be wrong; it could be some young hotshot (like Drucker was). It will be one hell of a player who moves mountains and wins the audition, and after that, perhaps they will get tenure. Whether one likes his playing or not, Drucker set the standard of that wind section for decades and this is still his moment. The news is 'Drucker is retiring,' not 'let's have a office pool and I've got Nuccio 2-1.' Nobody can reasonably speculate on the winner; nobody knows who is auditioning for sure and no one has any idea how people will play the day of the audition(s).
That's enough, I'm going to go practice.
Post Edited (2008-01-12 02:19)
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Author: Iceland clarinet
Date: 2008-01-12 07:27
Just one question I've not heard the New York Philharmonic before but how do Stanley Drucker and Pascual Martínez Forteza manage to blend together they have very different tone.
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Author: grifffinity
Date: 2008-01-12 13:44
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Just one question I've not heard the New York Philharmonic before but how do Stanley Drucker and Pascual Martínez Forteza manage to blend together they have very different tone.
Pascual is truly an amazing 2nd player...he's got mad skills. 2nd chair clarinet is one of the most important and difficult positions in the orchestra. You really can't get two different styles of playing in one position than Mark Nuccio & Drucker, however Pascual can beautifully blend with either one.
Pascual and Mark Nuccio did an orchestral masterclass a few years back - at that Clarinet Symposium in NJ. It was amazing to hear Pascual play first, then Mark - and then the two of them play together. Pascual has an uncanny ability to latch onto another players sound and intonation that is so crucial to 2nd chair playing. He is able to make his tone a bit less focused than the principal, which enables him to cushion and support the player.
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