http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/arts/music/05druc.html

   The New York Times

   June 5, 2009
   Ending a 60-Year Gig at the N.Y. Philharmonic
   By DANIEL J. WAKIN

   A SCHEDULING mishap left the New York Philharmonic in a
   pickle last month. With the players onstage and audience
   members shifting in their seats, there was no one in the
   first clarinet chair for Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1.

   Stanley Drucker, the orchestra's principal clarinetist,
   was not scheduled to play. When word of the problem reached
   him, he rushed from the players' lounge, took his place and
   quickly flipped through the technically demanding part as
   the conductor, David Zinman, and the soloist, Christian
   Tetzlaff, walked onstage. ...

Roger Hecht

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