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Elaine Hoffman Watts
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Born (1932-05-25 ) May 25, 1932Died September 25, 2017(2017-09-25) (aged 85 ) Genres Klezmer Occupation(s ) Musician, educator Instrument(s ) Drums, percussion
Musical artist
Elaine Hoffman Watts (May 25, 1932 – September 25, 2017[1] klezmer drummer from Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, United States.
Biography [ edit ]
Watts came from a line of klezmer musicians from what is now Ukraine and was the daughter of Jacob Hoffman,[2] Philadelphia Orchestra and Ballets Russes Orchestra . Her daughter Susan Watts is a klezmer trumpet player and an important figure in the klezmer revival .
In 1954, Elaine Hoffman Watts was the first woman percussionist to be accepted and graduate from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia .[1]
Beginning in 1998, she was a percussion teacher at KlezKamp , and she taught percussion in the Philadelphia area beginning in the mid-1960s. She was a recipient of a 2007 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts , which is the United States' highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.[3]
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^ "NEA National Heritage Fellowships 2007" . www.arts.gov . National Endowment for the Arts. Archived from the original on May 21, 2020. Retrieved January 12, 2021 .
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