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Jon Kalish

Mazel Tov Cocktail Party: Take an ounce of hip hop, dash of polka, then square dance

Mazel Tov Cocktail Party's influences are global, but the sound they create is uniquely their own. (Laura Carbone/Kathleen Tagg)

Clarinetist David Krakauer and pianist Kathleen Tagg were thrilled when they were invited to a chamber music retreat in rural upstate New York during the early months of the pandemic. It was an opportunity to flee their cramped Manhattan apartment and live for two weeks on a farm in the Adirondack Mountains near the Canadian border.

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