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...principal clarinet by conductor Leonard Bernstein in 1960, Drucker holds the Guinness world record for the longest career of any clarinetist. On July 31, Drucker, now 80, will make his final appearance with the philharmonic in Vail, Colo. He spoke with TIME about his career, the future of classical music and the performances he'll always remember. (See the top 10 plays and musicals...
...clarinet was common in popular music back then. Who were some musical icons for you? Well, of course the influence from my parents was Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw. They were the kings of clarinet. One of my first times listening to the clarinet was someone playing klezmer music in the backyard of my apartment in Brooklyn. People would throw coins down to this fellow...
...think the classical-music world has changed since you started? Is it still healthy? I'd say there's a very stable audience base. We see it week after week. In great cities like New York, there's an audience for almost any type of art. In fact, I think it's grown to an extent, though of course it will never have the audience that you get for rock 'n' roll...
...then, we need to add a caveat to everything we hear and see coming out of Tehran. For too many years now, the Western media have looked at Iran through the narrow prism of Iran's liberal middle class - an intelligentsia that is addicted to the Internet and American music and is more ready to talk to the Western press, including people with money to buy tickets to Paris or Los Angeles. Reading Lolita in Tehran is a terrific book, but does it represent the real Iran? (See pictures of Iran's presidential election and its turbulent aftermath...
...counterfeiters you write about seem to have a certain reverence for the crime's long history. Art's mentor, a man nicknamed "Da Vinci," insisted on listening to Italian opera while making fake bills because the music itself was old. Is that romantic aura part of what drew Art into the crime? Well, I think initially what drew him in was the desire to make money. But it does take a certain sensibility to be a producer of counterfeit money; you have to have an artistic sense. You have to have a respect for the craft and a creative personality...