It is rather easy to find classical musicians.这是比较容易找到古典音乐家. It must be a tough life for all of these incredibly talented people with so much education about music.它必须是一个艰难的生活,所有这些不可思议的人才,有这么多的教育有关的音乐. They train their whole lives to preserve an art, and they become a dime a dozen.培养他们的一生保持一种艺术,成为一毛钱一打. Lets face it, brilliant classical musicians are about as hard to find as lousy rock bands.lets面对它,辉煌的古典音乐家们,大概很难找到作为蹩脚的摇滚乐队. Although many of these musicians make some money playing in concert halls as part of symphonies, most have to supplement this work with other stuff.尽管许多这些音乐家赚一些钱玩音乐厅作为交响曲,他们大多以补充这方面的工作,与其他的东西. Some of them work outside their field, but most of them don't.有些人在外面工作的领域,但大多数人没有. A classical piano musician might work three or four different jobs at a minimum, first in the orchestra, then as a private piano instructor, than as a session musician helping composers record their tracks, and finally as perhaps a high school band teacher.古典钢琴音乐家可能奏效三个或四个不同的工作,至少先在乐团那么作为一个私家钢琴老师,不是作为一个音乐家会议,帮助作曲家记录他们的轨迹,最后,或许是一个高中乐队的老师.

Classical musicians do one other thing quite commonly: they work private parties.古典音乐家做的另一件事很常见的:他们工作的私人派对. It is really easy and fairly reasonably priced to hire classical musicians to entertain yourself and your friends for virtually any event.真是容易和公平合理的价钱租用古典音乐家,招待你和你的朋友几乎无论如何. We recently had my daughters graduation from college and hired a classical string quartet to entertain.我们最近女儿学到大学毕业,并聘请了古典弦乐四重奏娱乐. They were really lovely.他们是真的可爱. My daughter Erin has always loved string music, as have the rest of us, and it provided the perfect accompaniment to her evening.我的女儿erin向来喜欢弦琴,就如同我们其他人,它提供了完善的伴奏下,她傍晚. The classical musicians even played some modern numbers for us to dance to.古典音乐家,甚至扮演某些现代编号为我们跳舞.

Of course, we knew those particular classical musicians through a friend of the family.当然,我们知道,尤其是那些古典音乐家透过朋友的家庭成员. They actually had grown up with my daughter, although back in those days they hadn't been friends.他们其实也长大了我的女儿,虽然早在那些日子,他们没有朋友. That string quartet actually formed from a rival clique of girls from my daughters middle school.这弦乐四重奏实际上形成了一个集团对手的女孩,我的女儿初中. Back in those days, they were kind of bookish and geeky, not at all the charming social climbers like the friends of Erin, but who would have known that they would have grown up to do something so wonderful.当年,他们是样的书籍和geeky,不是所有的封面女郎社会喜欢登山的朋友erin,但有谁知道他们会成长做点事那么美妙. As classical musicians they furnished a wonderful ambiance for our party, and stayed tactfully in the background.作为古典音乐家,他们提供了一个美妙的气氛,为我们党,并留校婉转的背景. Really, for such socially graceless girls, they scarcely disturbed anybody.的确,对于这样的社会graceless女孩,他们几乎没有任何干扰.

It's good that we already knew those classical musicians, because it is such a chore finding competent entertainment.它的好,我们已经知道的是古典音乐,因为这是一个打零工找主管娱乐. I swear, if not for the connections that I have, I wouldn't even know where to start before a party.我发誓,如果没有对大陆的联系,即我有,我什至都不知道从何说起以前的一方. I mean, how do you know that they are any good, and not just out to make a buck as entertainers?我的意思是,你怎么知道他们有什么好,而不是只出来钱作为表演? It is really best to hire classical musicians who you know.真是最好聘请古典音乐家如你所知.