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Leaving a Legend - Stanley Drucker, clarinetist

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Uploaded by on Sep 11, 2009

Stanley Drucker joined the New York Philharmonic as a clarinetist in 1948 at the age of 19. Since then over 40 million people have attended his concerts and his sixty year tenure earned him a Guinness World Record for the Longest Career as a Clarinetist. Drucker is leaving the Philharmonic at the end of the 2009 season.

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  • Hahahah... his gestures are so funny... esp. @ 2:28 when he does that pelvic thrust!

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  • @ffrmaster34 i agree!

  • I am entirely jealous. If I have any idol for Clarinet, it would be Stanley Drucker; that amazing tone - that even though I disagree I've been told I have a similar tone to him- that surpasses anything else I've heard. Skill, tone, and principle clarinetist for the New York Philharmonic for over 50 years? Bragging rights if I might say. If I could tongue that fast, my tongue would hug itself. It really is a sad thought for him to have retired.

  • I am entirely jealous. If I have any idol for Clarinet, it would be Stanley Drucker; that amazing tone - that even though I disagree I've been told I have a similar tone to him- that surpasses anything else I've heard. Skill, tone, and principle clarinetist for the New York Philharmonic for over 50 years? Bragging rights if I might say. If I could tongue that fast, my tongue would hug itself.

  • Nobody on this planet has a greater legato and smooth technique than Stanley Drucker. And by no means least, he's an outstanding musician. I met him at a punk rock concert his daughter was singing in and was in awe all night long.

  • The result was a perfect balance to create the perfect legato on the clarinet. You do that and you have mastered the clarinet. I studied with Mr. Russianoff for four years and are the best four years of my life.

  • Stanley Drucker is one of the greatest clarinet players to have ever been born. He personifies Russianoff conceptualizations of how the instrument is to be played. Mr. Russianoff brought two schools of thought on clarinet playing to the middle. The Bonade on one end and Bellison school on the other.

  • This is one of those things where you watch it and your self-esteem hits rock bottom. This guy is amazing!!

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  • A legend! An artist! A gentleman! One of the worlds all time instrumental virtuosos!

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