Culture: Itinerant Wind Player Blows Into Birmingham ; the Cbso Launches Its New Season Tonight with a New Principal Clarinettist. Terry Grimley Went to Meet Him

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Is there something about orchestral clarinettists that makes them particularly prone to settling down in one place?

I don't know whether any scientific research has been done on this, but there is at least some striking circumstantial evidence - not least the CBSO's recently retired partnership of Colin Parr and Martyn Davies, who clocked up an astonishing 35 and 43 years respectively with the orchestra.

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Culture: Itinerant Wind Player Blows Into Birmingham ; the Cbso Launches Its New Season Tonight with a New Principal Clarinettist. Terry Grimley Went to Meet Him

Then, for example, it turned out that the Berlin Philharmonic's recent Symphony Hall concert was the final appearance of their second clarinettist after 30-something years. And then there's Stanley Drucker, long-serving principal clarinet with the New York Philharmonic . . .

I asked Timothy Lines, the newly-appointed successor to Colin Parr as CBSO principal, whether he could sh...

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