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Author: GBK
Date: 2008-11-20 06:18
Stanley Drucker will be concluding his final season with the NYP with 3 performances of the Copland Concerto on June 4/6/9, 2009.
On the NYP website he gives his thoughts about playing the Copland Concerto.
Drucker's final NYP solo performances may be a difficult ticket to obtain.
Probably a good idea to purchase them early...GBK
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Author: William
Date: 2008-11-20 14:41
"why is he retiring?"
Probably because of that thing that eventually gets us all--old age and the increasing physical & emotional rigor of trying to stay as good as we once were. At 68 myself, I can understand where he may be "coming from".
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Author: FrankM
Date: 2008-11-20 15:16
Drucker is really amazing. In the interview, he looks like a man 1/2 his age (I am assuming this is a recent clip!)). It boggles my mind to think of the music he's played in his lifetime .....50 odd years with one of the world's great orchestras.
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Author: William
Date: 2008-11-20 19:56
"Drucker is really amazing."
You got that right--I didn't mean to imply otherwise.
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Author: DAVE
Date: 2008-11-20 20:08
He is retiring because he has been in the orchestra longer than anyone. Question: Is his tenure there the longest in the orchestra's history?
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Author: Ryder
Date: 2008-11-20 23:55
"50 odd years with one of the world's great orchestras."
If I am not mistaken I believe it has been more like 60 years. In any case though that is amazing.
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Ryder Naymik
San Antonio, Texas
"We pracice the way we want to perform, that way when we perform it's just like we practiced"
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Author: Ed Palanker
Date: 2008-11-21 00:37
He joined the NY Phil at age 19 and I believe he is or will be 80 at retirement. He became principal several years after joining, he was the assistant and Eb to Robert McGinnis when he joined. ESP
www.peabody.jhu.edu/457 Listen to a little Mozart, live performance.
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Author: graham
Date: 2008-11-21 08:01
I suppose what I meant to ask was whether it was just an age milestone or whether there was something more specific. It seems to be just the age milestone thing.
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2008-11-21 12:53
As seen in broadcasts of last year's season, Mr. Drucker does look remarkably young for his age. Rumor has it that a mysterious artist bought the tattered antique notebooks of the late Basil Hallward (made famous by Oscar Wilde) on eBay and used information in them to paint a portrait of Stanley Drucker that the clarinetist keeps hidden....
Lelia
http://www.scoreexchange.com/profiles/Lelia_Loban
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Author: marshall
Date: 2008-11-22 07:08
This will be his 61st season, 49th as principal as far as I know.
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