Stanley Drucker has reached an impressive clarinet milestone. From AP…
An unusual new category has been added to the Guinness World Records: longest career as a clarinetist.
The standard was set by Stanley Drucker, principal clarinetist of the New York Philharmonic, who is retiring at 80 after playing more than 10,000 concerts with the orchestra in his 62-year career.
On Thursday evening at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Drucker was soloist with the Philharmonic in Aaron Copland’s Clarinet Concerto.
The new Guinness record was announced just after his performance, with the text: “The longest career as a clarinetist was achieved by Stanley Drucker (USA, b. 4 February 1929) who performed professionally for 62 years, 7 months, 1 day as of June 4, 2009.”
Nice work Stanley. Clarinetists are generally known to be steady rolling men but Mr. Drucker has set the gold standard.
And, check this out…
Drucker’s son, Leon, attained musical fame of his own as the longtime bassist for the rockabilly revival trio the Stray Cats, performing under the name Lee Rocker.
I wonder what the world record for longest career as a bass player is.
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