Biography
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Born
4 February 1929
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Born In
Brooklyn, New York, New York, United States
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Died
19 December 2022 (aged 93)
Principal clarinet with the New York Philharmonic for 60 years, the longest tenure of any member of the orchestra in it's history. Retiring this year (2009) at age 80.
Was admitted to Curtis Institute at age 15 and got his first professional job with the Cleveland Orchestra at the end of his freshman year at Curtis. Drucker played the clarinet theme from Rhapsody in Blue that opens Woody Allen's film Manhattan.
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