A founder of the legendary Jewish music revivalists, the Klezmatics, classically trained clarinetist Margot Leverett, combines impeccable technique with the playful virtuosity of the players who dominated early recording studios and the stages of weddings, big band nightclubs, and Yiddish theater in the 1920s and '30s. Margot absorbed the repertoire like other young musicians in the revival, hunched over cassette tape decks and 78 rpm phonographs, but she also studied with one of the last of the klezmer clarinet masters, Sid Beckerman, thus reviving klezmer's subtle intonation and instrumental technique as well as its repertoire. Joined by Gerry Tenney and his California Klezmer ensemble, Margot performs pieces from her recent album, The Art of Klezmer Clarinet (Crossroads).