Last night's Martha's Vineyard Chamber Music Society performance headlined Stanley Drucker, the 80-year-old and recently retired principal clarinetist for The New York Philharmonic. He was the Philharmonic's longest playing member - 60 years - having joined as assistant principal and E flat clarinetist when he was 19.
He is amazingly talented.
Interesting fact: Drucker's clarinet can be heard playing Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” in the opening sequence of Woody Allen's movie “Manhattan.” Give it a listen.
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