What advice do you have for young klezmer musicians, particularly for young female musicians?
MS. WATTS: What advice do I have? Get a day job. You do this because you love to do it. You’re not going to make a fortune playing klezmer. What can I tell you? It’s a hard way to make a living. You’ve got to know how to play your instrument. Many of today’s klezmer musicians — I’m talking about the older ones in their 30s, 40s, 50s — are classically trained musicians. Great musicians who decided, “I’m going to play klezmer.” Or else they were brought up with it in their families. It was handed down to them. I know one particular, very, very good clarinetist, a woman, she’s a great classical clarinetist and she decided she wanted to play klezmer. She’s from New York, studied with Sid Beckerman. She’s a great klezmer clarinetist. As a matter of fact, she did a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra not too long ago and they did a klezmer piece. My cousin, who plays violin in the orchestra, told me he was very impressed with her playing. I said, “Well she’s a great classical clarineti
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