Special To The Jewish Week
Remembering the clarinetist who sparked the klez revival.
Readers will no doubt recall a long-running advertising campaign for a fur company that posed famous women with the slogan, “What becomes a legend most?” Not, we grant, a campaign you’d be likely to see in these more animal-friendly days, but the question is a good one, “What becomes a legend most?”
If the legend is a musician, the answer is simple: play the music. Anything extra is nice, but nearly extraneous.