Stanley Drucker, principal clarinet, Beethoven Leonore Overture, No #1, Op 138

“I joined the orchestra in 1948. I was 19. It was a men’s club—the music room was filled with pipe smoke, and there was a constant poker game going on. If I still had that tie, I’d put it on eBay.”
– Stanley Drucker

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