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I'm helping people think the clarinet is cool.
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Clarinet
Helping
Helping People
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The clarinet chose me more than I chose the clarinet.
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Clarinet
Me More Than
Chose
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The clarinet has always been my baby. I just didn't know that for a while.
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Clarinet
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Clarinet is an incredible instrument. It's a great, expressive instrument.
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Clarinet
Expressive
Instrument
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I've always been attracted to multicultural music. It's where the world is going.
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Multicultural
Music Always Where
Attracted
Music World Always
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I'm working really hard to get the clarinet out of that hole, that Benny Goodman thing.
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Clarinet
Goodman
Benny
Hole
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I think music is one of the clearest ways to connect between people of all differences.
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Differences
Music People Think
Clearest
Connect
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When I got into high school, clarinet was not really in fashion. Everybody had electric bands.
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Clarinet
Electric
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I flow between modern and traditional jazz, between samba and choro - all maybe in a week's time.
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Flow
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Israel is a mishmash of other cultures. It's like New Orleans; it's a meltdown of other cultures.
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New Orleans
Cultures
Meltdown
Orleans
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My parents never said to me, 'Why don't you go and get a real profession?' And that really helped.
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Profession
Me Parents Real
Get A Real
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To me, music is a luminous experience. Whenever I'm immersed in it, life lights up for me, no matter what else is going on.
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Luminous
Life Experience Music
Immersed
Lights
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Sometimes I get off stage, and I almost have no recollection of what happened. It's almost like a trance; it's very bizarre.
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Bizarre
Recollection
Trance
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I have two brothers that are musicians. My older brother, Yuval, is a saxophone player. My younger brother, Avishai, is a trumpet player.
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Older Brother
Saxophone
Younger Brother
Trumpet
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Some old people, they remember that they used to play clarinet, and they remember the squeaks of the clarinet. But I don't play like that.
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Clarinet
Old People
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I have an ambivalent feeling about the Israeli army. Growing up in Tel Aviv, being involved in the arts, the last thing artists want to do is fight.
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Ambivalent
Army
Israeli
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We still have to overcome the notion that a clarinet squeaks. People need to remember what a beautiful instrument it is, including in popular music.
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Clarinet
Notion
Popular Music
Overcome
Instrument
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I like to listen to African music; I like to listen to Brazilian music that's not just Choro. I love to listen to Radiohead, I like to listen to James Brown - any music.
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Brazilian Music
Radiohead
African
Brazilian
James
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When I play the clarinet, I am 100 percent myself. It is as if it is part of my body. I can play whatever I think. Let me just read a melody and make it as sweet as I can.
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Clarinet
Melody
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My everyday life is not just walking around on clouds. But you have to give the really special things in life importance and not let the temporary things roll you off the road.
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Clouds
Everyday
Everyday Life
Importance
Special
Temporary
Just Walking
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I focused on the saxophone ever since high school. It wasn't until my album 'Poetica,' which I recorded in 2006, that I went back to the clarinet. It felt like it was waiting for me!
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Clarinet
Saxophone
Waiting Me School
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I prefer to solve conflict with kindness. That's my first approach. If that doesn't work, there's always the alternative. I'm from Israel. I can tell a person what I think if I have to!
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Conflict
Solve
Alternative
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My younger brother Avishai was my first influence. He picked up the trumpet, and I listened to him. The way he played - with the half valves and the smears - made me want to play like him.
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Brother
Influence
Younger Brother
Me Way Influence
Younger
Trumpet
Listened
Picked
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There are a lot of Israeli musicians in New York because you want to grow and go onstage, and eventually you have to get out of Israel to do that because there aren't enough places to play.
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Israeli
Onstage
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Influences at home, including classical music, were not all specifically jazz, but the family radio was always on... So there was always some connection to American culture, to American music.
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American Culture
Classical Music
Family Home Music
Classical
Connection
Influences
Specifically
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My initial training was on the keyboard - mainly the great American songbook. In junior high, during the day, I was a classical clarinetist, but after school, I played New Orleans jazz and big-band music.
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Great American
Junior High
New Orleans
Classical
Music Great Day
Initial
Junior
Mainly
Orleans
Songbook
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My father knew classical music very well. Driving in the car, listening to the radio, he could name every composer, every movement, what piece it was. I was fascinated by the way he recognized who wrote what.
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Classical Music
Fascinated
Classical
Recognized
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My father had lived in the States in the 1960s for a while and came to love American Songbook material. Even today, he sometimes recognizes singers that I never even heard of, which is beautiful and inspiring.
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Inspiring
Heard
Singers
Material
Songbook
To Love
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Avishai my brother always says to the audience, 'If you weren't here, it would just be a rehearsal.' So it's important to me to acknowledge and engage them. I know that they are there for me, and I'm humbled by that.
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Acknowledge
Rehearsal
Always Me Important
Humbled
Engage
Me Important Always
Just Be
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Clarinet is often associated with certain genres, like swing or folk music. I combine the old and new, using the clarinet as an expressive tool and not in one genre. I'm just happy that people are drawn to what I do.
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Clarinet
Expressive
Folk Music
Genre
Music People New
Associated
Combine
Drawn
Folk
Swing
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I definitely see myself as an international musician. When I play, I respect the source of the music, whether it's Cuban, Brazilian or Israeli. I try to bring that to all of the music I play. Music has no borders and no flags.
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Borders
Cuban
Flags
International
Israeli
Musician
Brazilian
Definitely
Play Music
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The best part about living in New York is that you are able to play with different people in different styles in the same week. It's really part of who I am as a musical person. I try to incorporate everything that I encounter.
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Different Styles
Best I Am People
Best Part
Different People
Encounter
Incorporate
Styles
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With cab drivers, I always say I'm from Brazil. I don't say I'm from Israel. It's happened more than once that someone is blaming me for the government's policy. And I say, 'Listen, I live here. I'm a musician. I don't call the shots.'
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Brazil
Cab
Drivers
Government Always Me
Blaming
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The clarinet is not so dominant in Israeli music as it is in klezmer. I heard klezmer when I was growing up, but for some reason I avoided it. I listened to Louis Armstrong instead. But the sense of melody is the connection between jazz and klezmer.
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Armstrong
Avoided
Clarinet
Dominant
Growing Up
Heard
Israeli
Jazz
Melody
Louis
Connection
Instead
Listened
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Whether it's performing a concert with my quartet or sitting in with my peers, enjoying musical conversations at home with my brothers or hanging and playing choro with my friends - sharing moments in that bright space of music are the happiest times.
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Space
Moments
Musical
Peers
Performing
Sitting
Bright
Brothers
Concert
Conversations
Enjoying
Hanging
Happiest
Quartet
Sharing
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I think maybe the only time I think of being a woman... is being on the road and making sure my musicians are fed and they sleep. 'Are you OK? Do you need some water? Are you hungry? Can I get you a cookie?' I'm not sure all the men bandleaders do that.
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Hungry
Only Time
Time Men Water
Cookie
Fed
Musicians
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I feel like sometimes I get even more goofy onstage than I am offstage. I'm not trying to make the music less than what it is. Even if it's hard for me and I have to think about a lot of details, it's none of the audience's business. I don't want them to feel that I'm having a hard time.
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Details
Goofy
Time Business Music
Hard Time
Onstage
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I was focusing on sax while at Berklee, but then I started to play Brazilian choro and Colombian music. I was doing more folkloric stuff on the clarinet because it works better. Finally, I realized I was working more on the clarinet than the saxophone, and I started to feel more comfortable on it.
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Clarinet
Brazilian
Focusing
Sax
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There's always this joke that I say in Israel: people don't really have discussions; they just try to convince the other people that they are wrong or they are right - they just try to impose their opinion on the others. Sometimes I think it's easier to avoid talking about things and just make music.
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Convince
Music People Sometimes
Music Always People
Discussions
Impose
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Boston was incredible. I had some of the best experiences of my life there at Berklee because I met a bunch of other people who were at the exact same stage in life and interest as me. There were American and international students all wrapped up in the Berklee environment, where you basically did nothing but music 24/7.
Anat Cohen /
Boston
Life Best Music
Exact
Wrapped
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