| 单词 | improvisation |
| 例句 | Although there is discussion over whether improvisation skills can be taught, there are some basic steps that allow children a safe, secure context in which to experiment with improvisation. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z This is because the Greek musical tradition, like all the musical traditions of the Ancient World, was one of improvisation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Musical activities such as singing, singing/vocalization, instrument play, movement/dance, musical improvisation, songwriting/composition, and listening to music, are types of musical therapy interventions to assess and help individuals practice identified skills. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Or was their tenure somewhat less cynical, more a matter of improvisation, motivated by the distant but vague object of forging a lasting harmony between Greek and Egyptian? Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Can you "recover" quickly from a mistake by making it sound like a bit of improvisation? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z I had just one script and I’d never manage improvisation now. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z She would whisper in her Uncle Marcos’s ear, and he in turn would transmit the message to the client, along with any improvisations of his own that he thought pertinent. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Take turns around the circle alternating the rhyme with two new “mothers” in the center battling it out through rhythm, movement, and improvisation. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z An experimental study of the effects of improvisation on the development of children’s creative thinking in music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z This chapter addresses children’s creativity, and introduces different types of children’s musical play and their associated repertoires as well as ideas for children’s improvisation. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one's waking life was spent watching one's feet. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Exactly how such an event should proceed without tearing the country apart was still very much a matter of speculation and improvisation. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The idea is improvisation: the foil containers that come from salad bars can be reused as dishes; the lone plate becomes a cutting board. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, improvisation can be taught to some degree in that it requires a set of tools and prior experiences from which to draw. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z It needed great powers of reasoning and improvisation. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z With his usual flare for improvisation, Bloom contributed something else that would forever color America’s perception of the Middle East. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z They were better suited to improvisation, for they had been invented for just this purpose—to pass the hours in creative fun when the weather closed in. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Afterward, they regroup in the living room for board games and goofy improvisation contests, all free of profanity and even double entendre. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z In West Africa, rhythm is complex and highly valued, and involves communal/group participation, improvisation, and movement. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Although it grew out of swing and the pioneering electric guitar figures of Charlie Christian, early rock and roll announced its intention to go light on improvisation and heavy on rhythm guitar. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Another component of the method concerns improvisation, which helps students sharpen their spontaneous reactions and physical responses to music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Think of improvisation as “quickly assembling” shorter rhythm or pitch patterns that you’ve already mastered. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z A moment later, she felt her usual size again, and the feeling of easy improvisation was gone. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The rest was pure improvisation, and it left little time for explanation. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z One Saturday evening not long ago, an improvisation comedy group called Mother took the stage in a small theater in the basement of a supermarket on Manhattan’s West Side. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The natural rhythms inherent in rhyming can become the basis for exploration, improvisation, vocalizations, and instrumental creativity. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Like many explorers of his day, Shackleton was a great believer in improvisation: he would figure things out as the need arose. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z This will reduce the anxiety of having to perform an 8-beat improvisation in front of the group. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The Passacaglia structure involves a short sequence of four or eight chords repeated many times, which act as the springboard for a series of unfolding melodic explorations or improvisations. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z To prepare for the improvisation part of this rhyme, use rhythm cards for several weeks prior. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z The term improvisation is often misunderstood to mean, “making something up on the spot.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z In fact, improvisation is an advanced and highly sophisticated skill in which the musician must draw upon all of their previously practiced knowledge and techniques in order to compose “in the moment.” Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z One of the ways of fostering creativity is to encourage students’ improvisation. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z For even more possibilities, try a web search for "exotic scales"; or try inventing your own scales and using them in compositions and improvisations. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z And of course, ear training is crucial to any musician who wants to play jazz or any type of improvisation. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Through the practice of imitation, exploration, improvisation, and composition, students learn what music is by performing. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Nonetheless, visitors to Andean history note certain ways of doing things that recur in ways striking to the outsider, sometimes in one variant, sometimes in another, like the themes in a jazz improvisation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z That experience helped shape his ideas about composing and arranging as a form of service to others, and broadened his definition of liturgical music, especially where improvisation is involved. Clarinetist and composer James Falzone blends improvisation with liturgical music in ‘The Already and the Not Yet’ 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z With the band careening into a hailstorm of free improvisation, he felt lost. Earth Couldn’t Contain Sun Ra’s Ideas. His Arkestra Is Still Exploring Them. 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Parker followed with unaccompanied soprano saxophone improvisations, using circular breathing techniques to whirl tiny melodic and rhythmic cells at inhuman length. Music Review: Louis Andriessen, Composing Under the Radar 2010-04-19T22:18:00Z When it comes to sex scenes, improvisation seems to be the worst thing you can do. 'Everyone's heard the horror stories' – how to do an ethical sex scene 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z A lot of what I do onstage is still improvisation, but with clear anchors and parameters. Finding a Voice (and Bodies) for an Untold South African Story 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z By the way, jazz music is synonymous with improvisation, it's just that some jazz is more improvised than others. For Women in Jazz, a Year of Reckoning and Recognition 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z She blended her own musical forays on synthesizer with audio snippets of industrial or nature sounds, unaccompanied improvisations by musicians on various instruments, and samples from radio broadcasts. Helen Thorington, Who Brought Sonic Art to the Airwaves, Dies at 94 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z Dormeshia’s choreography is much like her improvisations: perfectly measured and modulated, complex without clutter, always clear and never without the buoyant rhythmic sense called swing. Review: Dormeshia Coasts on Her Tap Mastery in ‘Rhythm Is Life’ 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z I mean, like on my albums, there’s a lot of improvisation — on “Horses,” “Birdland” – it’s an improvisation. Patti Smith’s most personal interview: “The things that make me feel strange – I’ve transformed them into work” 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z The Deep Listening Band, a long-running collaboration with the trombonist Stuart Dempster and others, pursues slow, ritualistic improvisation in unusually sonorous acoustics. The Composer Pauline Oliveros Stays Busy at 80 2012-08-11T22:02:08Z “We will continue to rebuild a sound reputation in the birthplace of improvisation — New Orleans.” Irvin Mayfield Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy in New Orleans Fraud Case 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z It's a mix of improvisations on rapturous rock ballads and funky themes, overlaid by a stream of spontaneity from the two leaders. Joe Locke/Geoff Keezer: Signing – review 2012-10-04T20:52:01Z Free improvisation has often been associated with an acoustic jazz palette, but Supersilent — a deeply serious band formed almost 20 years ago in Oslo — makes music of synthetic, often alien effect. The Playlist: Danny Brown and the Weeknd Serve Up Twists and Turns 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z Hughes was frequently accompanied by live bands when he performed his poems, and he wanted the music to serve not just as background sound but as a commentary on the work, so he invited improvisation. “The Black Clown” Beautifully Reconfigures a Langston Hughes Poem 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z "I look at my improvisation in the same way a gardener tries to make a nice garden," he explains. Trumpeter Arve Henriksen: Norway's top brass 2013-02-03T20:30:01Z His visit there would be in connection “to adoption,” to “liquidation of a publishing firm,” to “finish naturalization” and to “see documents” for his work. All four explanations were either outright lies or wild improvisations. How Paul de Man hid his past 2014-03-30T15:00:00Z Full of conversion tables and lists of possible substitutions, these recipes give bakers plenty of opportunity for improvisation. Lemon White Pizza, Smothered Pork Chops, Pea Guacamole: 10 Takes on What to Cook This Summer 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z "There's a certain amount of spirit of improvisation," she adds. Amy Poehler trades "SNL" skits for single character 2010-12-01T03:06:00Z Her improvisation, delicate and spiky as a sea urchin, led into the next piece, “Without Regrets,” by which point the standard-issue big band comparison felt like a distant memory. Review: Delivering a Touch of Big Band Through a Jazz Collective 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z And on one wall, four ingenious variations on a single design — Davis likened them to jazz improvisations — done between 1932 and 1956 hang side by side. Stuart Davis, Heady Abstract Realist, at the Whitney 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Did you use a script with a lot of room for improvisation, or were most of the bits scripted? The Wimbledon we wish we could see: “SNL” directing alum brings Kit Harington and Andy Samberg together for epic tennis mockumentary 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Its music was rooted in the same improvisation and epic solos that defined the Grateful Dead, but it also had a playfulness and funkiness that set it apart. Phish Has Come To Terms With Its Life After the Dead 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Through it all, he finds a way to let his bebop-rooted saxophone improvisations shine. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z What carried me through is the image of C.P.E. possibly improvising this piece, and then later notating it, because it really does sound like an improvisation — like playing for himself. Listen to Keyboard Music by Bach (No, Not That One) 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z You can set different guitar or piano patterns upon the structural lines and go from there, but that’s not improvisation. Bob Dylan Has a Lot on His Mind 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Many of the teachers there, she said, were interested in improvisation as a tool to create dance vocabulary and for use in performance. Coltrane by De Keersmaeker, Freewheeling but Structure Intact 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z For those who cherished the work of this inventive firebrand — a conceptualist steeped in dance, Minimalism and jazz-informed improvisation — a restoration seemed deeply implausible. A Long-Lost Score, Rebuilt With the Help of a Photo 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Michener will play pieces by Xenakis alongside related improvisations, with his piano connected to a bespoke system that triggers video images with each key stroke. Xenakis: So what does a wiggly line sound like? 2010-06-03T22:00:00Z When he started composing, which he describes as "carving the arc of a piece," he talks eloquently about the "birth of improvisation" and the tension of not knowing where the sound will go. Apple TV+'s new Velvet Underground film is an irresistible portrait of extraordinary provocateurs 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z His new show breaks ground by expanding on the dualities always central to his work: liquid and solid, sound and silence, presence and absence, improvisation and fixity. Christian Marclay Sees in Sound in a Show at White Cube in London 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z The bluegrass jam, held in the back of the bar, is fairly relaxed; improvisation is encouraged, and the songbook is flexible. From City Folk, Toe-Tapping Country Sounds 2011-02-24T21:28:59Z An improvisation on D. H. Lawrence’s poem “Piano” showed off Ms. Kurstin’s solo work. Music Review: ‘The Story of Babar the Elephant’ at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-11-21T22:50:07Z But “Sextuplets” is full of scenes in which the director, Michael Tiddes, seems to have just let Wayans “go,” leaving openings for uproarious improvisations that, time after time, do not arrive. ‘Sextuplets’ Review: Six Marlon Wayanses and Zero Laughs 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Baseman says they have a shot list, but they are also open to improvisation. 'Mythical Creatures': Gary Baseman's search in 'Holocaust by Bullets' sites 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z "The apparatus has to serve our improbability and improvisation," he pronounces, in answer to a question asking how a band formed nearly 30 years ago keep things interesting for themselves on yet another global tour. Red Hot Chili Peppers: The band that couldn't be stopped 2011-08-18T20:29:01Z “Nefertiti” began as a probing ballad, built to double time as Baker soloed, then slowed again for Meadows’s even more impressive improvisation. Tedd Baker leads an explosive performance at Bohemian Caverns Jazzers Mangelsdoff and Cherry impose constraints on themselves – essentially, it's an improvisation on a part of You Dig It, a Terry Riley composition – and in the process, find liberation. Readers recommend: songs about austerity ? the results 2011-01-20T16:32:23Z Speedy, ultraprecise unisons and a round-robin of improvisations minimize what must have been complex choices on tuning, mode and inflection; the music shimmers as fingers fly. The Playlist: Previously Unreleased Hendrix, and 10 More New Songs 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z Then they create the song's structure of melody, harmony and rhythm through – improvisation. Grammy winner explains why Adele is right – album tracks should not be shuffled 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z And he’s a structure geek: games, chance procedure, regulated improvisation. | 'I?m Going to Make a Small Incision Behind Your Ear to Check and See if You?re Actually Human': Heeding Audience Cues and Ping-Pong Balls 2010-12-16T16:46:46Z The conductor suggested that the singers listen to Ella Fitzgerald’s live version of “How High the Moon” for an example of masterful improvisation, which he described as “harmonically off the charts.” Lend Me a Jukebox Opera. Yuks and Tenor Required. 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z A searing alto saxophonist and master flutist, Dolphy transformed the bass clarinet from a marginal instrument into a highly expressive vehicle for improvisation. Pianist Geri Allen brings her Tribute to Eric Dolphy to Seattle's Jazz Alley 2010-09-16T22:22:00Z And that’s the odd thing, at least to a viewer today: These improvisations were basically disposable means to a larger end. Art Review: ‘The Path of Nature,’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 2013-01-24T22:22:49Z Fonda, who claims to have little talent for comedic improvisation, said she was in awe of the cast's dexterity, particularly with the unscripted moments. Fey, Bateman improv sibling love in 'This is Where I Leave You' 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z It’s the pseudo-street photography of some of Mr. Lindbergh’s work that inspired the name of the exhibition, for its sense of movement and improvisation. In Transit: In an Old Berlin Post Office, a Gallery Flourishes 2010-12-26T11:01:02Z Nesbit is brilliant in those moments, and captures a paradox of historical writing — that it’s in the invention and improvisation that the past feels most pressing and most real. Was There a Murder on the Mayflower? 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Barney appears only in a supporting role, and he now seems especially eager to embrace collaboration and improvisation, notably via dance, a fascinating addition to his cinematic techniques. A Lighter Matthew Barney Goes Back to School, and Back Home 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Together they specialize in the communion between ecstatic free improvisation and psychedelic groove. Playlist: New Albums: Tift Merritt, Rangda, Randy Newman 2012-09-29T23:43:03Z How do improvisations in a dance studio become theatrically coherent choreography? Review: Neil Greenberg, Jennifer Monson and Yvonne Meier in Motion, in a Mixed Bill at Jack 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z "For us it's all about that extra bit of improvisation. Things go wrong, people make mistakes, but there is a beauty to that." Techno music pioneering band Underworld remains ever current 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Jazz artists never worried about recycling old tunes, so the metaphor of improvisation was also an argument about his painting. Stuart Davis=jazz: An equation that doesn’t explain this chilly modern master 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z There's a narrator, there are electronic sounds, there's bestial - or rather cetacean - improvisation from the choir, there are football rattles and a whip, there's serialism, crunching dissonance, and loud-hailers. A guide to John Tavener's music 2013-02-19T16:15:03Z The next night, Aruna Sairam was a more informative, therefore more rewarding, guide to the fundamentals of Indian song, her improvisations witty and joyful. At Ojai, Peter Sellars Has a Personal Yet Global Playlist 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z This year’s lineup is a convocation of Mr. Iyer’s broader network, one that stretches from chamber music to free improvisation to literary activism. Just the Right Time for a ‘Nondenominatlonal Leader’ in Music 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Boulez’s own music moved from serial rhythms, durations, attacks and dynamics to improvisation, chance, electronics, world music. 2010-01-08T21:25:00Z Each could play two to five instruments, and most were undergoing advanced training at Merit School of Music in the West Loop in a program focused on improvisation and jazz. Chicago News Cooperative: Kids These Days: A Group With a Sound if Not a Genre 2011-07-31T02:45:26Z He created “Gold Standard” onstage, in front of an audience, in an event that was organized by a Japanese critic and is remembered as more-or-less improvisation, a performance as well as an assemblage. Glenstone’s connections to dance, now and on the horizon 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z And after a short pause, they played a loose adaptation of Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” — or at least a short free improvisation using that theme at the beginning and end. Celebrating Charles Gayle at the Vision Festival 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z I mean, with improvisation you think comedy, and I don’t consider myself at all a comedic actress. He slept with a lesbian: Summer’s hottest rom-com 2012-06-13T00:05:00Z She doesn’t stay very long within standard jazz idioms, or even some of the favored nonidiomatic languages of free improvisation. 2010-01-15T04:14:00Z Among print mediums, and perhaps all works on paper, monotypes were and remain hotbeds of spontaneity and improvisation. The Modern Degas You Haven’t Seen 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z They’re both seekers, both invading the space between free improvisation and the consensual mainstream jazz language, both suggesting changes of style and even function in their instrument. Creating Uncommon Vibes 2011-07-22T20:52:11Z At first, this group improvisation felt serene, as instrumentalists circled the crowd and paced the margins of the venue. Review: Nate Wooley’s Festival Delivers a New, Idiosyncratic Repertoire for Trumpet 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z Lanny Mitchell, who narrated, expertly expressed the poetry’s rhythms; Ms. Stoops played with a loose, impulsive verve that suggested improvisation. Music Review: Da Capo Chamber Players at Merkin Concert Hall 2013-02-03T20:17:59Z "The thing is it is one of those instruments that lends itself to the type of improvisation like a violin would do in Handel's time," Jarvi said. Handel with saxophone is music to conductor Jarvi's ears 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z One good line amid the mundane improvisation: when Andy declares that the south rim of the canyon is so beautiful that he wants to live there, April wonders whether there’s a good school district. ArtsBeat Blog: WatchList: A "Parks and Recreation" Road Trip 2011-11-04T17:49:10Z Pitching a group of trained killers-turned-thespians as messengers of peace seems a hard sell: disputes over the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory resolved in one almighty improvisation workshop …? Fighters turn to theatre to advocate Middle East peace 2010-07-22T16:46:00Z As you’ve gathered by now, there’s tremendous room for improvisation and flexibility when braising vegetables, right down to how you choose to cook them. Cure for the midwinter vegetable blues: Braise ’em 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z I shall never know how much of Sehgal's repertoire is being reprised and quoted here, how much room there is for improvisation or the cycle of repetition. A piece of performance art set in darkness made me see the light 2012-06-14T16:16:32Z The relationship of vocal to bass line must also remain flexible, not unlike in improvisation. Monteverdi Set Human Emotion to Music 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z Intended for children 5 and older, and offering an optional improvisation workshop after each Sunday afternoon performance, the show may help empower a few questioning young theatergoers, too. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z The company also created “The Harold,” a long-form performance structure that is widely considered to be one of improvisation’s three primary pillars. The Bay Citizen: With Long Roots in the Bay Area, Improv Comedy Is Thriving 2010-08-08T00:11:00Z “Because after all, has there ever been any greater improvisation than America itself?” Swinging the Vote: Jazz Inspired by the Presidential Race 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z But for the younger generation, jazz was exciting – it was energy, vitality, surprise, improvisation, throwing out the old and embracing the new. Sarah Churchwell on Gatsby 2012-07-02T11:00:00Z This form of communication, improvisation, is one of the world’s best examples of spontaneous composition. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Bebop 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z On four previous albums, Clogs — a quartet completed by Rachael Elliott, a bassoonist, and Thomas Kozumplik, a percussionist — blended a chamber music transparency and poise with rustic melodies, ethnic allusions and nimble improvisation. Hybrid Sounds by Clogs, Slow Six and Redhooker 2010-04-16T19:52:00Z Certainly committed players will remind you that tabletop role-playing games still outperform computer games in one key arena: improvisation. Dungeons & Dragons Remake Uses Players? Input 2012-01-09T13:00:00Z The actors were improvising a scene about improvisation last October, as the "21 Jump Street" veterans were graduating from the last film's high school setting into college for the coming "22 Jump Street." '22 Jump Street': Phil Lord, Chris Miller are a fresh brand in comedy 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Did you ever learn anything about improvisation through a book? Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z They're the kind of threatening electronic studio improvisations that provide the bedrock of Throbbing Gristle's original back catalogue. Chris Carter, Peter Christopherson, Cosey Fanni Tutti: Desertshore/The Final Report – review 2012-11-22T15:29:01Z Songs like “Heartbreaks + Setbacks” and “We’ll Die” speak to trials, tribulations and inevitabilities, yet his knack for unleashing their harnessed emotion through explosions of live, free-form improvisation was remarkable. A journey through the life’s ups and downs with Thundercat 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z “I knew it would work as a format for improvisation,” he added. David Sanford’s Music Has Flown Under the Radar. It Shouldn’t. 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Many songs on “The Light of the Sun” came out of studio jam sessions, and they’re springy with a sense of improvisation, both in the rhythms and in their elaborate vocal overlays. The Passions and Travails of a Jazzy Everywoman 2011-06-20T21:40:37Z But Leigh, with his famously intricate process of crafting a screenplay through elaborate improvisation, is interested in creating something like life, and life doesn't always work out like a romantic comedy. 'Another Year': Life happens in Mike Leigh's fascinating tale 2011-01-27T22:32:00Z Together they delved into free improvisation, occasionally performing in museums alongside modernist and abstract paintings. Sam Rivers, Jazz Musician, Dies at 88 2011-12-28T00:24:59Z Artistically, Selaocoe’s current home is in improvisation, a shift confirmed when he was invited to perform with the renowned Art Ensemble of Chicago at the 2019 London Jazz Festival. Abel Selaocoe Finds a Home in Improvisation 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z It's a process of casual brainstorming, constant rewriting, endless improvisation and audience testing that leads them to ridiculous places. Ferrell and McKay: A partnership forged on jokes 2013-12-18T14:02:20Z Mr. McFarland plans to spend more time in Denver, where he moved last year with his longtime partner, and to devote more time to composition, improvisation and solo performance projects. Two JACK Quartet Founders to Depart 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z As with all Leigh's films, the characters are created through many months of improvisation, before a word is ever typed. 'Another Year,' another improvised Mike Leigh script 2011-01-21T00:28:50Z So Lemming Circle Dance is their Interstellar Overdrive, a wigged-out improvisation in search of space. The Sufis: S.U.F.I. – review 2012-07-05T21:00:02Z For several years, he withdrew from performing in public to innovate a tough, angular style of improvisation, with which he smudges conventional tonality without erasing it entirely. Chicago News Cooperative: Two Jazz Greats, Tightly Bound by Chicago 2010-09-24T04:45:00Z I’ve been interested in the connections between theology, the arts and improvisation for a while. Clarinetist and composer James Falzone blends improvisation with liturgical music in ‘The Already and the Not Yet’ 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Between such engagements, he has fashioned a body of work that finds common ground in improvisation, European early music, Eastern devotional styles, black metal and more. Music Review: Eyvind Kang Presents His Eclectic Mix at the Stone 2013-07-03T20:39:35Z Nissen says that much of the look came out of improvisation. Partying with the Germs and drinking with X: A new book about Slash magazine captures L.A.'s early punk scene 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z But Mr. Baumbach, an exacting writer, is not keen on improvisation. Film: Ben Stiller: There?s Something About Mortification 2010-03-12T04:24:00Z It was the galvanizing choreographed group sections that balanced out the improvisations, that made the stage swing. Review: Lindy Hopping Into the Present With Caleb Teicher and Co. 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z “Lenox Avenue Breakdown” featured tuba, electric bass, flute and assorted percussion and consisted of four giddy, hotfooting originals that opened up into extended improvisations. Arthur Blythe, Jazz Saxophonist Who Mixed Sultry and Strident, Dies at 76 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z On a stage in the central gallery, four days a week, Spectrum dancers perform duets and trios derived from Mr. Byrd’s improvisations. Can Dance Make a More Just America? Donald Byrd Is Working on It 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z Choral muwashshah are interwoven with instrumental and solo vocal improvisations to create the complex suites of music that are traditional in the Middle East, with a mood that is by turns exuberant and ecstatically devotional. Songs of the city 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z There was improvisation and precision to the choreography. "Lady Chatterley's Lover" director on sensuality and "a woman who takes ownership of her body" 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z That vocal quality came through strongly in Derya Turkan’s soulful improvisation — which included the same languid oscillation of pitch that had struck me as so oddly expressive in the Pomo d’Oro concert. A Musical Handshake Spanning Centuries: Venice in New York 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Q: Was there much improvisation with this cast? Bruce Willis likes it when he sees "RED" 2010-10-13T22:28:00Z For Mr. Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Mr. Young and the Who, that meant spiking their songs with improvisation. Review: At Desert Trip, Rocking Beyond the Hits With a Vengeance 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z The two men both started as performers and shared certain traits: a sly wit, an impeccable eye, a meticulous style and a blend of precision and improvisation in their directing styles. Director Joe Mantello, Broadway’s Invisible Wizard 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z The result is choreographed improvisation that gives the dancers tremendous freedom. Sasha Waltz’s ‘In C’ Marries Choreography and Improvisation 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z Her improvisations draw from other new sources, too. An Odissi Dancer Charts New Paths in ‘the Land of Discovery’ 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z The phrase came to represent a new musical school marked by a spontaneous, sometimes frenetic sense of improvisation, and Mr. Coleman was seen as its leading practitioner. Ornette Coleman, innovative force in jazz and modern music, dies at 85 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Mr. Scott, whose style is based in improvisation, was a tougher fit. The Film ‘Enemy Within’ Melds a Variety of Dance Styles 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z I'll be singing a couple of my songs, and I've written a lot of new material, but the rest will be improvisation. Fatoumata Diawara: 'We can present our culture in a new way' 2012-08-25T23:08:22Z Williams's big strengths are a Bill Evans-like talent for varying the weight and shapes of phrases across long improvisations, and a blazing uptempo swing. Brigitte Beraha/Gareth Williams – review 2012-08-29T14:35:01Z Tur says her unflappable demeanor may be a byproduct of growing up in a household that was “a bit chaotic,” fraught with constant improvisation. Taunted by Trump, ‘Little Katy’ stood her ground. And became a star because of it. 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z To Cage’s chagrin, Bernstein also led the orchestra in improvisations — which Cage considered a different tradition altogether. Orchestras Looking to Broaden Horizons? Start Improvising 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z He later left the organization because he was uninspired by its focus on free improvisation. Kelan Philip Cohran, a Musician Who Invigorated Chicago With Education and Activism, Dies at 90 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z But improvisation is what Tyler specializes in, and so he improvised, making what happened during his freestyle all the more improbable and impressive. Tyler, the Creator, Funkmaster Flex and the Wildest Interview of the Year 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z And those improvisations, he said, had a particularly strong impact on Damon. How Chris Messina Forced Matt Damon to Up His Game in ‘Air’ 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z In the 19th-century, public séances, which were sometimes held in theaters, attracting thousands, relied on stage techniques — lighting, sound, stagehands, improvisation — to achieve their effects. A Séance Relies on Illusion. So Does Theater. 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Basing their art on the tradition of the medieval jester and the improvisation techniques of commedia dell’arte, Mr. Fo and Ms. Rame thrilled, dismayed and angered audiences around the world. Dario Fo, Nobel-Winning Italian Playwright, Dies at 90 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Working with Mr. Schick here was the International Contemporary Ensemble, a versatile, insatiably curious crew for whom improvisation is a dietary staple. Music Review: George Lewis, Composer Portrait, at Miller Theater - Review 2011-11-13T23:12:08Z They’re songs mostly about grown-up love, about courtship, yearning and fulfillment, with elegant rhymes and ingenious melodies that invite a little improvisation. The Amiable, Unswerving Tony Bennett 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z It was tabula-rasa free improvisation: about an hour long, aggressive but not signifying any particular school, loud and soft but mostly loud, way more gestural than narrative, instinctive, abstract, efficacious. Music Review: Wayne Horvitz, and Sax and Percussion, at the Stone 2010-04-08T22:12:00Z The buoyant exhilaration of Ms. Pfaff’s fruitful operations in the gap bordered by painting, sculpture, installation and improvisation is quite apparent here. Art in Review: JUDY PFAFF: ?Five Decades? 2010-10-15T07:09:00Z “There will be smaller groups playing composed pieces,” explains Rieflin, “but the orchestra, nominally, is based in improvisation.” From Robert Fripp and friends, a different kind of orchestra | Concert preview 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z You have this sense of improvisation where you go with things you know, where you tell the story the length it needs to be told. Vince Gilligan: I’ve never Googled “Breaking Bad” 2012-07-23T20:47:00Z Altman encouraged improvisation from his actors at all times, leading to the film’s revolutionary style, with its herky-jerky manner and overlapping dialogue. What “M*A*S*H” Taught Us 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z There is no shortage of great kora players in west Africa, but Diabaté has redefined the parameters of the instrument, playing bass, melody and improvisations simultaneously. Toumani Diabat?: Mali's modest maestro 2010-04-24T23:08:00Z The improvisations were lively on Thursday night, though, with a youngish crowd participating vigorously in the lobbyist sketch, and with a nifty game called “What’s Your Privilege?” getting much better than expected results. Second City puts sting in ‘Almost Accurate Guide to America’ 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z Alongside strict notation, Lidholm provides room for improvisation within bounds, giving the music a core sense of something seething and fertile. Review: At 95, a Conductor Is Still Showing New Facets 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z For Parker, the music known as European free improvisation began in 1966, and he was a witness to its birth. Evan Parker's musical utopia 2010-04-22T21:35:00Z But the first set on Tuesday, played for a capacity audience, was a textbook example of how free improvisation can provide common ground for musicians of wildly disparate styles and temperaments. Music Review: Fred Frith Brings a Week’s Worth of Variety to the Stone 2013-08-29T20:38:08Z Ward III was engineered to encourage such improvisation. The Tipsy Diaries: Customized Cocktails at Ward III in TriBeCa 2010-08-19T22:00:00Z A proud autodidact, Pitre has moved among long-form electronic drones, mercurial acoustic improvisations and glistening string meditations, all employing just intonation. How a Pro Skateboarder Became an Apostle of Ancient Tuning 2021-12-28T05:00:00Z It was, like much of what I do, an improvisation. The Novel That Made Jules Feiffer Ignore His Family on Vacation 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z The effect was nocturnal, even séance-like, adding extra dreaminess to his brief improvisation at the start that flowed into the familiar opening of Bach’s gentle Aria. Review: Dimming the Lights for Sensuously Flowing Bach 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z If you've ever been tempted by free improvisation, Parker is your gateway drug. Evan Parker's musical utopia 2010-04-22T21:35:00Z He talked about his long-standing interest in the art of improvisation, playing seven-hour-long shows, set lists and the problems of conjoining art with daily life. Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z Johnson is a practitioner of vocalese, a somewhat overlooked art form in which singers put lyrics to previously instrumental tunes and even to transcribed improvisations. George Johnson’s joyful jazz was a lifetime in the making 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z It’s no easy thing to protect yourself and your partners in unpredictable contact improvisations like this, while also building something that people will want to watch. Dance Review: Jawole Willa Jo Zollar?s ?Black Jam? at Danspace Project 2012-02-19T20:52:27Z The joy of improvisation in Jazz is undeniable. For Women in Jazz, a Year of Reckoning and Recognition 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Charnock's work was grounded in improvisation and frequently autobiographical, with a streak of black comedy. Dancer Charnock dies of cancer 2012-08-02T16:03:04Z She always wanted to perform, going to improvisation classes when she was eight and starting an improv group at high school; her dream, from childhood, was to be on Saturday Night Live. Jillian Bell: ‘What if I enjoyed what I was doing and focused less on how I looked?’ 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Ms. Childs’s experience with partnering was limited as a young dancer to her own participation in contact improvisation groups of the 1970s. A Choreographer Dancing With Ghosts, and the Future 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z A sickly poultry improvisation gag involving a peacock falls flat, and the speed bump to the happy ending is right out of the Hallmark Movie Scriptwriter’s Handbook. ‘About My Father’ Review: De Niro in Dad Mode Again 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z For the final piece, Mr. Tao and Ms. Lee performed a structured improvisation that segued into “Heavy Rain,” a song he wrote last year with words stitched together from poems by a friend. Review: After a Concert, a Nightcap to Demystify New Music 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z He also helped the movie's composer, Christophe Beck, with cues, improvisations and other aspects of the soundtrack. 'The Peanuts Movie': Jazz pianist David Benoit provides musical rhythm 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z One of his final songs was this, an improvisation of an old spiritual called “Motherless Child.” Richie Havens: 6 Essential Performances 2013-04-22T23:26:31Z According to family lore, he was 3 when an aunt indicated a nearby stream and told him to turn its burbling into music — his first piano improvisation. Keith Jarrett Confronts a Future Without the Piano 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z In New York that broad umbrella will cover a range that includes programs of club-oriented electronica, indie rock, free improvisation, ambient music and contemporary classical work. 2010-01-29T19:15:00Z "We have special dust, I can even come through the letterbox," says Johnny, showing good initiative and improvisation skills. TV review: Bad Santas 2012-12-17T22:10:01Z So they flocked to Paris, and the movie is scrupulous in chronicling how the European movement “free improvisation” grew into something allied with, but distinct from, what the U.S. founders created. ‘Fire Music’ Review: An Impassioned Case for Free Jazz 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z And the improvisations were responsive — guitar run to keyboard sprinkle to bass rejoinder to drum salvo in endless colloquy — and also willing to delve. Grateful Dead 'Fare Thee Well' Tour Gets Down to the Music 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z Most useful to the uninitiated, the book provides tips on what good improvisation really means. Steps to heaven 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Lewis said he hoped to help the ensemble move beyond rigid notions of genre, in part by encouraging artists to listen to each other through improvisation. Outspoken Composer to Lead International Contemporary Ensemble 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z I see improvisation as a craft and as an art. Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z But Leon has become David's confidant on the show, which is produced with large doses of improvisation. A hit on `Curb,' J.B. Smoove spreads his `ruckus' 2010-06-13T22:01:00Z “How long until there’s nothing left at all?,” he wonders, and all the filigreed acoustic improvisation around him is no answer. Blackpink and Selena Gomez’s Summery Treat, and 11 More New Songs 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z This concert will feature material from both of his new albums, including “The Drum,” which consists entirely of solo improvisations on a floor tom. Jazz Listings for Feb. 13-19 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z He died in 2007 at 83, and his career spans the beginning of bebop, the intersection of jazz with the civil rights movement, free improvisation, and jazz’s current state of cross-disciplinary experiments and multimedia performances. Critic’s Notebook: Library of Congress Acquires Max Roach’s Papers 2014-01-24T22:54:46Z There’s no stand-up comedy at the Annoyance and much less improvisation than at the other comedy theaters. Annoyance Theater Moves Brooklyn Into Comedy Theater Scene 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z That was a time when improvisation was actually a form of pop music. Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z The most memorable moments were for string quartet, with the ensemble showing its versatility and flair with lively improvisations. ‘Voices, Winds and Paths’ at the Chelsea Music Festival 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z Chisme y Queso Short sketches by local playwrights plus improvisations based on audience suggestions; presented by Center Theater Group; 21 and up only. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Nov. 12-19: Four Larks' 'Undine,' 'Chasing Mem'ries' and more 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z In 1970, the music’s closest kin would have been the burgeoning krautrock of Can in Germany, who — like Ono and the Plastic Ono Band — were merging psychedelic improvisation with mantric Minimalism, simultaneously focused and deranged. Half a Century Later, John Lennon’s ‘Plastic Ono Band’ Still Hits Hard 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z And it can be so by definition: what we’re talking about when we use that term is collective improvisation without a fully written plot, and usually without a prearranged grid of rhythm or harmony. Review: John Zorn and Collaborators in a Village Vanguard Run 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z “The reason why I started composing was that I was so angry with myself that I could not remember the beautiful moments of the improvisation of the day before,” he said. A Composer Finds the Old in the New 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z He then worked with the clarinetist, saxophonist and composer Jimmy Giuffre, whose adventurous approach to both composition and improvisation had a lasting impact on Mr. Hall’s own music. Jim Hall, Jazz Guitarist, Dies at 83 2013-12-11T03:50:57Z He acknowledges that for all the hit-and-miss nature of the grand improvisations, an economically dominant West did contain Communism and precipitate the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. How the United States Achieved World Leadership 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z “Revelations” makes use of one splendid improvisation of its own. New ‘Revelations’ in the Life of Francis Bacon, a Master of Darkness and Distortion 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Individually, all the singers were captivating; in ensembles their interactions were terrific, and they were enlivened further when Gianluigi Trovesi, the clarinetist, wove improvisations around the vocal melodies. Music Review: L?Arpeggiata?s Period Instruments at Zankel Hall 2012-03-15T22:35:58Z Those improvisations are copied and translated on the spot by Ms. Beller and her five dancers, who reteach the guest artist the movement material. Dance Review: Alexandra Beller and Company at the Joyce SoHo 2012-04-09T21:06:04Z In the 1980s, he began solo improvisations to Glenn Gould’s recording of Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations, moving to classical music in often unorthodox ways, and with disarming freshness. Review: At MoMA, Dances by Steve Paxton, an Original Too Rarely Seen 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Yes, it’s the same song as last year, aside from a dash of improvisation. Review | Second City returns to Washington with familiar gifts in ‘She the People’ and ‘Love, Factually’ 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z The contact improvisation scene in Kyiv was described to me as being strong and well organized — as much of a social club as a dancing community. What Does a Dancing Body Feel Like in Ukraine? ‘I Am a Gun.’ 2022-08-24T04:00:00Z But Wednesday’s concert, part of the Sound It Out series, was a group improvisation. Music Review: Tyshawn Sorey’s Wu Wei Quintet at Greenwich House 2013-04-18T22:47:19Z Sunday's two allowed us to hear sections from Wagner's Tristan and Isolde as we rarely hear them: first as the basis of an organ improvisation, then on period instruments. Proms 20 and 21: Wayne Marshall; OAE/Rattle 2010-08-02T12:44:00Z Do you mean improvisation or treating challenges as opportunities? KidSuper Wants to Bring Back Warhol’s Factory 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z Tyree have assembled a list of 39 obscure art-house films as the starting point for a collection of brief, jagged improvisations on their respective youths. Book review: ‘Our Secret Life in the Movies,’ by Michael McGriff and J.M. Tyree In this context, Wheeler’s ransacked home could have been an improvisation, by him, to explain his lost phone. He helped build the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. How did he end up dead in a landfill? 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z I did hear Adam liked to do a lot of improvisation, and I was nervous about that. Actors of ‘The Big Short’ Talk About the Debt Crisis, in Beverly Hills 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z They established a rhythmic pocket that allowed Williams to effortlessly weave line after line of blues-tinged improvisation. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mary Lou Williams 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z The hard-won musicality packed into songs such as I Feel The Earth Move was more emotionally direct than any number of long improvisations. Christine Tobin & Liam Noble 2010-09-22T21:00:00Z The second was a quickly assembled last-minute bonus with what he called the New Unit, a free-jazz septet playing high-energy collective improvisation. Review: Cecil Taylor’s Mysteries Don’t Resolve at the 88th Key 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z Some of their material was less obviously connected to the Braxton compositions as previously recorded but felt in the right spirit — as did Wooley’s improvisations away from his horn. An Experimental Master Gets His Due Onstage in New York 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z Their distinctive styles collide in an evening driven more by improvisation than by choreographed routines. Styles Collide to Serve Flamenco 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z A reworking of their 2005 production, they regard it as a search for happiness, in which mysticism and sensuality live alongside moments of improvisation and set material. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z His son answered with an improvisation that processed the melody into a digestible, light-FM-ready tune that resembled nothing so much as “My Heart Will Go On.” Music Review: Jordi and Ferran Savall at Morgan Library & Museum - Review 2011-10-14T23:05:59Z But equally valuable is the zone of exception that the adventure playground represents in the city, one of improvisation and informality that, pace Van Eyck, does not blend in to a polite streetscape. Sense of adventure: what happened to playgrounds that give children space 2012-07-03T14:40:54Z He was referring to Francis Johnson, a bugler and orchestra leader known to give public performances in Philadelphia during the 1820s that involved improvisation. Byard Lancaster, Jazz Alto Saxophonist, Dies at 70 2012-09-01T22:58:19Z “The connection between improvisation and timing will be on full display as Chappelle co-headlines with a special musical guest each night,” an announcement on Radio City’s website says. Dave Chappelle Will Return to NYC Spotlight at Radio City Music Hall 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z The dance was inspired by a series of group improvisations. ‘Can You Bring It: Bill T. Jones and D-Man in the Waters’ Review: Still Making Waves 2021-07-15T04:00:00Z A theme reminiscent of It Ain't Necessarily So turned into Roll Out the Barrel, and then into Mack the Knife, before a chattering Indo-bop vocal improvisation threw Salt Peanuts in for good measure. Gilad Atzmon Orient House Ensemble 2010-10-05T21:30:00Z I'd heard a bit about him – he was an alto saxophonist who developed a radical approach to improvisation – but I'd not heard his records at that stage. Holding out for a hero: Soweto Kinch on Joe Harriott 2011-07-21T21:30:01Z I had these fragments and ideas of chord movements, improvisations, and some voicings that we hadn’t used before — slightly spiky, fourths and sixths rather than thirds and fifths. Everything but the Girl Breaks a 24-Year Silence With a Bang 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z To ascertain meaning from such powerfully ambiguous novels requires a measure of readerly improvisation. Elusive leaps of grace and daring: Rachel Cusk's 'Kudos' 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z In recent years Mr. Israel was known for what he called impromptu interventions: one-man street-theater improvisations, some of them witnessed by friends and some recounted in his club act. Steve Ben Israel, Performance Artist, Dies at 74 2012-06-17T03:10:32Z “There is a lot of improvisation in Indian classical music,” Mr. Neiburger said. A Raga Renaissance Flowers in Brooklyn 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Only the final destination remains the same, the rest is improvisation, flux. Rediscovering the World of ‘Blue Highways’ 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Aside from any snake-based improvisation, Cooper said it is getting harder to travel with his serpents since they now need passports instead of permits. Alice Cooper talks tap dancing, snakes onstage and his diary 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Mr. Surtees brought to his work not only an impeccable eye but also something directors found just as valuable: a gift for frugal improvisation. Bruce Surtees, Oscar-Nominated Cinematographer, Dies at 74 2012-02-29T03:57:26Z Their slower pace allowed for more improvisation and spontaneity. Critic’s Notebook: A Richard Pryor Retrospective, ‘A Pryor Engagement,’ at BAM 2013-02-05T23:21:42Z “Bells for the South Side” has some vibrant chamber pieces that also include improvisation. A Pioneering Black Composer Keeps Pushing 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z He came with improvisations and alt lines, and so many ideas that eventually made it into the movie. Randall Park plays "the closest thing to me" in "Always Be My Maybe" 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z Trained in piano and improvisation, she began performing at age 17 before heading to New York. Brazilian jazz’s melodic beauty live in concert 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z There are snapshots from Mr. Andrieux’s life: he shows us an improvisation exercise he did in a class with the choreographer Dominique Bagouet; the solo he performed for his final exam. Dance Review: Snapshots of One Dancer?s Life Give a Glimpse Into an Art Form 2010-09-19T22:09:00Z When it comes to being filled, this should be with nothing but your – or you and your colleagues' – own, individual needs, desires, hunches, improvisations, spontaneities. The Suit: the show that sums up Peter Brook's theatrical odyssey 2012-05-25T13:08:47Z In his improvisation, Sollima, who is both a post-Minimalist composer championed by Philip Glass and a specialist in Baroque music, was cellist as inspired clown. At USC and Disney Hall, finding the body and soul of the cello 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z She said she has been particularly impressed by the improvisation in American theater acting. Chinese star refreshed after New York career break 2011-06-14T16:16:04Z His improvisations were innovative, limitless, freeing, bold, boundary-pushing and unapologetically groundbreaking in the way he transcended all preconceived understanding of western harmony. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Bebop 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z One of the premier — and most prolific — living American composers, Braxton continues to release reams of new music, typically drawing on improvisation and built around his own complex musical systems. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z On her website, Ms. Ring explains that she began by videotaping the dancers’ “raw” improvisations, which is easy to believe while watching the final product. Review: A Dance That’s Just Not Weird Enough 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Mr. Lively, the Slow Six violinist, joins the group for two longer improvisations. Hybrid Sounds by Clogs, Slow Six and Redhooker 2010-04-16T19:52:00Z The uncertain feeling in the set’s first half probably had something to do with all the free improvisation that cropped up within the tunes. Music Review: Tony Malaby?s Novela at Jazz Gallery - Review 2011-12-19T22:05:11Z With two of you, there's a lot of improvisation and laughter. Matt Damon's Promised Land 2013-04-19T06:46:32Z While some of the duo’s fascinating pieces are almost entirely composed, many have big sections which allow for improvisation. Probosci’s sharp improvisers to play the Royal Room 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z In his work, which emphasizes naturalistic character-building and improvisation, she saw “a way forward.” Lesley Manville Has Waited Long Enough 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Evans’s solo improvisations leave the audience unmoored, adrift on a stream of sounds that constantly take on new and alien colors. Review: Peter Evans Teaches His Trumpet a New Vocabulary 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z Drummer Greg Reaves, the improvisation- inclined player, was not only steady but also incredibly precise, holding down a pulse that could give a metronome a run for its money. Ambitious and rewarding show from jazz sextet Dial 251 honors two music legends 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z In the opening show, Smith and Stephens navigated the churning rhythmic currents unleashed by Williams and Janisch, exploring long, weaving improvisations that accumulated with an irresistible, trancelike intensity. Walter Smith III – review 2013-01-29T15:14:01Z Williams, an expert at improvisation, also ad-libbed some scenes, including the last line of the movie. Robin Williams: Seven of his most memorable movie roles 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z He brought in other, often-younger musicians and guided them into furious improvisations, drawing upon spiritual traditions from across the Global South. What a Rare, Live ‘A Love Supreme’ Reveals About John Coltrane 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Wegner said Campion created a “spell of calm” on the set that allowed for improvisations. Ari Wegner: The other woman behind ‘The Power of the Dog’ 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z He offers us a path of improvisation, and the echo turns it into a call and response. Listening to Music in the Desert at Dawn 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z “It’s such an incredibly specific and open system of music and improvisation.” Mark Morris’s Love Letter to India, Through Music and Dance 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z On “Prairie Burn,” she issues rugged, two-handed counterpoint; dense smashes of harmony; and simmering blues improvisation. For Mara Rosenbloom, Piano as a Remedy and a Force in Jazz 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z On “Swirling,” named for the album’s one Allen composition, the Arkestra wraps its arms around a huge range of musical history: swing, early rock ’n’ roll, Chicago blues, avant-garde improvisation, abstract electronics. Earth Couldn’t Contain Sun Ra’s Ideas. His Arkestra Is Still Exploring Them. 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z It is made up of a hundred little improvisations that nevertheless add up to a comfortingly predictable cacophony, tailored to the street where you live. In Praise of Quarantine Clapping 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z In a recent interview by phone from his home in Los Angeles, Mr. Kotcheff described the challenges of “Songs of Insurrection,” including Mr. Rzewski’s instructions to pianists about their improvisation choices. The Music of More: A Young Pianist Plays a Modern Master 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z We do a lot of improvisation on our show, and sometimes the best lines are written by the actors. "Empire" Showrunner: We Always Planned That Would Happen to Lucious 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z Barry breaks into acting by drawing on his experience as a killer, as when he tells a story about being a hit man that Gene takes for a dramatic improvisation. In the ‘Barry’ Finale, Hollywood Gets Away with Murder 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z There’s passion here, and sacrifice, and art, yet finally this is a story about nature’s relentless improvisation, and the hope that we should ever understand it. Motherlode Blog: The New Reader’s Back-to-School Booklist 2013-08-21T13:56:02Z “You had to do all these improvisations. The teacher would say, ‘We are two moths on a curtain.’ Don Rickles, lightning-fast launcher of comic insults, dies at 90 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z The typical approach began with a rhythmic pattern or an atmospheric sound, well suited to both piano and koto, then added melody or smooth improvisation or lush harmonies. Piano and koto meet in 'Strings and Serpents' 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Any instrumentalist may also submit an improvisation based on a new piece called "Mothership" by composer Mason Bates for an opportunity to play a solo. YouTube 2011 orchestra conducting online auditions 2010-10-12T22:28:00Z The vocal improvisations of scat singing greats like Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald and Cab Calloway provided inspiration, though here, of course, the effect is precisely scripted. How ‘Some Like It Hot’ Tunes In to the Jazz Age 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z All six pieces were stretched to between 15 and 20 minutes, with plenty of space for improvisation. Herbie Hancock stretches out and enjoys the jams at Kennedy Center 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z And although their income isn’t what it was, they still draw crowds to hear their grand improvisations on a Sunday morning, with admirers that afford them something like heroic status. Once Top Musicians, Organists See Loss of Relevance 2014-04-25T19:57:41Z He is also desperate for something to help him "escape the regimen of perfection and competence" imposed by his work, which "neither allowed improvisation nor tolerated mistakes". Open City by Teju Cole ? review 2011-08-06T23:05:38Z An attitude of improvisation, of rolling with the punches, of striking, scattering and moving on. The real "Star Wars" story is garbage — literally 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z Beginning to program their orchestral music — including works that stretch the orchestral sound into improvisation — would be one way to address larger patterns of racial exclusion in classical music. Orchestras Looking to Broaden Horizons? Start Improvising 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Featuring humorous improvisation and topical satire, it won a large following. Willard Scott, TV’s Clown Prince of Sun and Showers, Is Dead at 87 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z What appears to be a straight-through improvisation is a looping patchwork of edited and repeated parts. Art in Review: Stan Douglas: ‘Luanda-Kinshasa’ 2014-02-13T22:54:28Z When you live on a dirt road 150 miles from the nearest city, he points out, improvisation becomes a necessity — and also, in some ways, a utilitarian form of art. One Hundred Artists Rolled Into One Man 2011-12-16T16:41:49Z It's not to be confused with its close sibling and perennial rival, improvisation. SketchFest: Comedy without borders 2011-01-10T06:00:00Z But since improvisation is also about knowing when to listen, that was no mark against the software’s intelligence. It’s Alive! It’s With the Band! A Computer Soloist Holds Its Own 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z In practice, she has said, that means understanding jazz improvisation as a new kind of democratic space: “a feminine non-hierarchical power structure.” The Playlist: John Mayer Laments the Friend Zone, and 11 More New Songs 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z These pieces are bracing, argumentative and engineered to show the range of the group members: fulminous, intense collective improvisation; rapid, chromatic steeplechases; research into long tones and textures. New Music From the Rotem Sivan Trio and Anna Webber 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Any kind of improvisation is difficult enough, but when you throw in instantly created music and lyrics as well you begin to have an inkling of the task facing these supremely talented performers. This week's new theatre 2011-01-22T00:06:52Z Because Duncan could be wildly unpredictable, some people assume that her dances were on-the-spot improvisations. The Week Ahead: May 23 ? 29 2010-05-20T20:56:00Z He records all his live shows — almost 100 in the last year — occasionally repurposing what began as improvisation into polished beats. Music: Lots of Beats, but No Drum in Sight 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z He carries a set of joke-shop fake teeth in his shirt pocket, and has a habit of disrupting the routines of everyday life with absurd and outrageous improvisations. Review: In ‘Toni Erdmann,’ Dad’s a Prankster Trying to Jolt His Conformist Daughter 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z She moved on to Chicago in 1992 and began trying to entertain the uninterested, studying improvisation at the Second City, the sketch comedy theater with so many famous alumni. Books of The Times: Tina Fey Is Greek and Also Teutonic, but She Isn?t a Troll 2011-04-03T21:52:49Z He writes at the keyboard – he's a fine pianist too – often exploring ideas at first through improvisation before notating them, whereas others only write "in their head". Lulu; Huw Watkins day – review 2013-02-17T00:06:20Z In her solo career since 1999 she has evolved from performance art and solo improvisation to actual composition. A Daughter of Kronos Revisits Quartet?s Fold 2012-02-24T20:17:42Z He has similarly provided inspiration for musicians working in idioms from jazz to improvisation to new music to rock. The Dutch Composer Louis Andriessen at Carnegie Hall 2010-04-01T20:43:00Z I loved "Paddleton," and I really was so excited to understand what we would be playing with because we were going to be incorporating so much improvisation. Dianna Agron on embracing indies after "Glee": "When you ask for something, life can give it to you" 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z But the climaxes arrived in one-on-one encounters: direct, point-counterpoint engagements of listening and improvisation. BomPlenazo Artists Collective at Hostos Community College 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z Crowley's rolling, faintly dolorous tenor sax delivers the winding title track and encourages the first of a series of thoughtfully shaped and thrilling improvisations from Downes. George Crowley Quartet: Paper Universe – review 2012-05-24T22:29:01Z “I didn’t have an improvisation practice like I do now. So my brain would sort of short-circuit in more informal situations. It was like, if there wasn’t a barre, I couldn’t dance.” Pros, Sure. But Reborn as Party Animals on the Dance Floor. 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Founded on a love of improvisation, they have roots in Abstract Expressionist painting, Process Art sculpture and Neo-Expressionism. Sterling Ruby Pipes Down, a Bit 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Far more important was fellow Canadian Paul Bley, whose notion of improvisation as “composition in real time” is evident in both her playing and Taborn’s. Experimentalists take center stage at Earshot Jazz Festival 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z The effect, appropriately, is rather like instrumental improvisation. Zadie Smith Experiments With Short Fiction 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z The first concept of individual freedom is improvisation. Wynton Marsalis Finds Solace in the Optimism of the Blues 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z “There is a structure, but within the structure is improvisation.” With Black Artists’ Input, One Gallery Is ‘Starting to Look Different’ 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z But he is best known for his work with Mr. Davis, the saxophonist and composer Julius Hemphill, and others who were central to the development of American composition and improvisation in the late 20th century. Abdul Wadud, Cellist Who Crossed Musical Boundaries, Dies at 75 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z Such improvisation is impossible when carving wood, and yet these prints reproduce his trademark spontaneity. Review | In the galleries: Tracing a generational progression in abstract art 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z At these back-to-back shows she will engage in a series of free improvisations with the trumpeter Kappa Maki. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Their warring improvisations are intriguing, unsettling and often exquisite. Tim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin: Instrumental Tourist – review 2012-11-18T00:05:47Z Zoe and I did a lot of improv — like the first diner scene — a lot of improvisation is involved in that. Daniel Radcliffe Does Not Find Tinder Addictive At All 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z The actors’ improvisations were caught from every angle, because Hooper had as many as six cameras rolling at once. They Dreamed a Dream: Les Misérables Is a Whole New Kind of Movie Musical 2012-12-04T17:00:00Z Incorporating some degree of cast improvisation, Carney’s screenplay is not exactly robust, and the film feels slightly padded with mini montages. Review: ‘Begin’ celebrates healing power of music 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Attention turns to improvisations on Saturday, both in an early concert with Mr. Zorn on saxophone, and later, for “Cobra.” Classical & Opera Listings for Oct. 9-15 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z Too often, however, the improvisations fall back on clichés that don’t visually distill Melville’s words as much as they forcibly remind viewers of other books and movies. Television Review: Ahab Has a Wife and a Heart. Oh, and a Whale. 2011-07-31T22:18:03Z Swanberg’s earlier collage-like improvisations conceal an unerring sense of form; now, his open-ended clarity masks the looming chaos of ordinary life and suggests the daily heroism of confronting it. Joe Swanberg’s Decade of Revolution 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Zizek’s daisy-chained improvisations amount to an argument on behalf of unseen depths, but it risks monotony and becoming as reductive as it can be seductive. Movie Listings for Dec. 6-12 2013-12-06T01:00:08Z Their not being used to the stage helps spark variations and physical improvisation that evoke the often unpredictable energy of the Cassavetes piece, she said. It’s ‘Opening Night’ for Two Shows That Pay Homage to Cassavetes 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z Grateful Dead performances were always a blend of tightly rehearsed passages and let’s-see-what-happens improvisations. Grateful Dead 'Fare Thee Well' Tour Gets Down to the Music 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z An eclectic trumpet virtuoso who’s been a leading voice on his instrument since the 1990s, Mr. Douglas presents “Dizzy Atmosphere,” a program of improvisations and extrapolations based on Dizzy Gillespie’s compositions. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z “There’s a lot of improvisation and finding different rhythmic motifs that work at a fast tempo,” he explains. Tapper, musician Alex Dugdale cuts a rug at ‘Sacred Music’ 2013-12-23T20:06:42Z Here, he would work with Oneida, a restlessly creative Brooklyn rock quintet given to extended improvisation. Music Review: Ecstatic Music Festival: Rhys Chatham and Oneida 2012-03-20T22:07:59Z Too often on this album, she aims to be gentle; it hinders her, and by extension, the band, which is built for live improvisation and jams, but which on record too often paints by numbers. New Music: Superchunk and Tedeschi Trucks Band Release Albums 2013-08-19T22:29:24Z “There are common songs played by a lot of musicians,” Mr. Wilson said, and through improvisation, performers “get to be original on what is standard.” Spare Times: For Children, for Feb. 10-16 2012-02-09T21:47:27Z This low-key framework created something almost like a rehearsal studio atmosphere, a sensation strengthened by the use of improvisation throughout — and, crucially, by Circa’s embrace of failure. Dance Review: Circa, an Australian Troupe, at Jacob’s Pillow 2012-06-22T22:43:12Z There is also singing and piano playing and improvisation, and every week Mr. Wong marvels at the production. On Location: B.D. Wong Tames His Inner Hoarder 2012-09-05T22:37:29Z The film became a cult favorite as an expression of the Beat philosophy of improvisation and spontaneity even though, as Leslie later revealed, it was planned and rehearsed. Robert Frank Dies; Pivotal Documentary Photographer Was 94 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z When he learned about free improvisation, he felt like he’d found an outlet for expressing these nascent ideals. The Face of Solo Guitar Is Changing. It’s About Time. 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z Both sang with an emotional maturity far beyond their years and both were not only flawless technically, but were able to add sparkling improvisations to the song. ArtsBeat: On 'Idol,' a Duet From Two Top Contenders 2012-04-06T05:20:24Z The tunes ranged from shadowy harmonic movement to sputtering free improvisations. David Murray: A jazz innovator leads from the center to the edge 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z It makes the shows meatier than most improvisation, if less wildly unpredictable. The Improvised Shakespeare Company’s Couplets Off the Cuff 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Ms. Courvoisier, a pianist, plays with a serious but open-minded demeanor; she crafts bright improvisations out of starkly defined parts. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z This breaking of the fourth wall is one of the easier laughs, pandering that emphasizes the reduced expectations of improvisation instead of the aspirations of scripted comedy. The Improvised Shakespeare Company’s Couplets Off the Cuff 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Drivers, catching a bystander’s eye, turned up the music to encourage a moment of free-spirited improvisation. The Election Brings Dance to the Streets for a Collective Roar 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z And though the show's creators, Mark and Jay Duplass, encourage improvisation, there is apparently a line that you can cross. Emmy Contender: Amanda Peet of 'Togetherness' is on 'Game of Thrones' campaign 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z For that concert, black midi merged with Black Country, New Road — billed as Black Midi, New Road — to perform Christmas carols, Minimalistic improvisations and, well, “Born to Run.” black midi’s Music Embraces the Extremes 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z This builds into a loose, conjoined tumbling that’s strangely disembodied — like a version of contact improvisation in which the goal is not to share weight but to diffuse it. Review: In John Jasperse’s ‘Visitation,’ Mortality Seduces 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z The shows draw heavily on topical humor, satire and improvisation - often with a political bent. Famed comedy club seeking laughs in Chicago's past 2011-11-05T14:53:08Z FLECK: People ask us a lot about improvisation. Film: A Teenager Flying Over a Cuckoo?s Nest 2010-09-25T05:00:00Z One of their trademarks is the “Jimmy Stewart,” the band’s name for a group improvisation that blooms within or around a song: in this case “The Bottom Half,” an ersatz-reggae tune. Music Review: Umphrey?s McGee at Brooklyn Bowl - Review 2011-09-09T23:42:12Z This led him to a class with the renowned mime and master teacher Jacques Lecoq, whose pioneering training was rooted in clowning, improvisation and mask work. The Dumbledore of Clowning 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z It gave me infinite tools for improvisation, ways for playing with movement that had to do with learning about myself rather than trying to imitate someone else. Pros, Sure. But Reborn as Party Animals on the Dance Floor. 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z And the piano improvisation on Thelonious Monk’s “ ‘Round Midnight” is as bracing and unimprovable as a glass of ice water: each phrase pointing toward the next, without premeditation. Willie Nelson, Mali Music and Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden 2014-06-16T04:00:00Z In “Last Work,” one idea was that there would be no improvisation; another involved three words: baby, ballerina and executioner. ‘Mr. Gaga’ Comes to Town 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z But Brubeck's real achievement was to blend European compositional ideas, very demanding rhythmic structures, jazz song-forms and improvisation in expressive and accessible ways. Dave Brubeck: 1920-2012 2012-12-05T18:49:19Z My first improvisation I ever did was with you. Sally Silvers?s ?Prize Every Time? at Roulette in Brooklyn 2011-10-09T04:00:16Z The “rules” of improvisation that have been set down over time involve constant affirmation–improvisation can only work if everyone says “Yes, and” to each other’s ideas rather than shutting them down. Yes, and … that joke is sexist: Improv troupes, unchecked creepiness and the toll that being “cool with it” takes 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Changing rhythms define this challenging collection, yet below all the shifts and improvisations, dedicated readers will find a compelling undercurrent of sound, insight and devotion. National Book Award finalists for poetry But Williams' improvisations ultimately took the character in a different direction. James Monroe Iglehart releases the genie inside 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z It’s a piece with a lot of improvisation, one that takes a lot of cues from its literary source, but at the same time it’s a marvel of composition. New Music: Scotty McCreery, Lauren Alaina, Claudia Quintet - New Albums 2011-10-11T00:13:28Z I use a lot of improvisation, so I was terrified he was going to hate me. Alice Lowe: ‘I was terrified that Bill Nighy was going to hate me’ 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z “You can say improvisation is that,” Ms. Silvers said, referring to the spontaneity required. Sally Silvers?s ?Prize Every Time? at Roulette in Brooklyn 2011-10-09T04:00:16Z Furthermore, all three work in traditions that are open to improvisation. A jam session of harpsichord and zarb as indie spirit grows in classical music 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z Rhythm, choreography and even improvisation are essential ingredients of “Love and Information,” and Dove shows a keen mastery of the play’s unusual demands. Review | 57 plays in one evening? Who’d go to such a thing? You should. 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z Do we understand Feynman diagrams or the Uncertainty Principle any better for having seen them through the lens of improvisation? Review: As Goes Music, So Goes the Universe 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z It became a much bigger hit shortly afterward when the singer Eddie Jefferson wrote lyrics to Mr. Moody’s improvisation and another singer, King Pleasure, recorded it as “Moody’s Mood for Love.” James Moody, Jazz Saxophonist, Dies at 85 2010-12-10T19:00:00Z Two spirited improvisations were set off by three distinct rhythmic currents, ranging from funky to flowing to frenetic. MusicNOW composers team up with Mouse on Mars 2010-12-14T18:33:00Z Her shows always involve a lot of improvisation. Iva Bittová: 'My intuition works very well' I Alex Needham 2013-03-14T07:09:14Z “I began to find myself as an actor” there, he recalled in a 2000 Playbill interview, not because comedy was necessarily his calling but because improvisation required so much “energy and enthusiasm.” Philip Baker Hall, Character Actor in Roles of Authority, Dies at 90 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z In a climactic chase scene, White intercuts different Coleman performances, on trumpet and saxophone, with a hectic brevity that treats the jazz genius’s improvisations like actual movie music without betraying their originality. Ornette Coleman’s Inspired Soundtrack for “Who’s Crazy?” 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z The collaborators explore Coltrane’s sense of abandon; in their dance as Ms. De Keersmaeker’s website states, “they accept the challenge of blending improvisation and composition into a seamless whole.” Dance Listings for the Fall Season and Beyond 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z Wu Wei played three encores: his own improvisation on the traditional Chinese "Dragon Song," a Rachmaninoff Vocalise and Brahms' Hungarian Dance No. 5. Seoul Philharmonic introduces beauty of the sheng 2012-04-17T19:11:03Z The work, which concludes its run this weekend, comprises a partially painted canvas and, in front of it, occasional improvisations by a ballerina and a violinist. Dance Listings for April 18-24 2014-04-17T23:06:26Z Mr. Lewis’s astute ear for expressive and unusual sounds and his command of structured improvisation brought forth music that was evocative, atmospheric and — potentially — pregnant with psychological nuance. Review: ‘Afterword, the AACM (as) Opera’ Lends a Voice to Stories of Black History 2015-05-24T04:00:00Z This emphasis on interpretive freedom leads to improvisation, which was a bridge between Clara’s personalities as composer and pianist. Clara Schumann, Music’s Unsung Renaissance Woman 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z Ms. Lee, a cellist, is unpredictable too, having made elegant chamber music and noisy, dynamic, almost Hendrix-like solo improvisations, as on this year’s “Ghil”; she’ll collaborate with Ms. Boulé, a dancer. Fall Pop Music Preview: An Abundance of Rhythms and Styles 2013-09-09T16:03:09Z For example, Mr. Paxton developed contact improvisation, which uses personal contact as a starting point for exploring how bodies communicate with and react to one another. Steve Paxton to Receive Bessie Award for Lifetime Achievement 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z The lineup includes works by Prokofiev, Dvorak and Milhaud, as well as improvisations and guest artists. Opera/Classical Music Listings for Sept. 12-18 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z What isn’t immediately clear on “Verisimilitude” is where Mr. Sorey’s written music ends, and where improvisations begin. Is It Jazz? Improvisation? Tyshawn Sorey Is Obliterating the Lines 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z His own delicate, jazz-tinged piano improvisations weave in and out of the choral tapestry, adding a contemporary, personal voice to this entrancing ancient music. Classical Playlist: Villegas, Praetorius, and Boulez's Mozart 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z There are fruitful overlaps with contemporary classical composition, experimental rock music and improvisation. Sound art is here to stay 2010-05-07T12:27:00Z The opening of the improvisation seems to announce a set of regular jazz variations on an underlying harmony. 50 great moments in jazz: Cecil Taylor's jazz piano revolution 2010-04-14T11:25:00Z More than just a clever authorial performance, the structure underpins a sustained preoccupation with the tension between fate and chance, art and accident, script and improvisation. William Boyd’s Madcap Burlesque Revisits the Summer of 1968 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z What helped was the vision he shared with Ms. O’Donovan, a vocalist of unerring instinct and a product of the contemporary improvisation program at the New England Conservatory. Critic’s Notebook: Dave Douglas’s New Album, ‘Be Still’ 2012-09-23T21:32:21Z This is all a pretty analytical approach to improvisation, where I think a lot of people consider Phish's music to be just "made up on the spot." Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z The equivalent improvisation at Bargemusic was more insistently rhythmic and spiky, driven by an invention-like motif that popped up everywhere and led to beautiful flights of harmony and some restless, agitated episodes. Bach Invented. Now a Pianist Is Trying to Match Him. 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z This, in turn, creates space for solo improvisations. How Minneapolis made Prince 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z By the start of the 1960s, Coltrane’s “sheets of sound” advanced to freer, elastic improvisation based on modal scales. ‘Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album’ Review: Sitting in the Studio With Coltrane 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z “Bears in Space” allows plenty of room for deliberately uneasy improvisation, as if its narrators were always expecting to be caught with their trousers down. Review: ‘Bears in Space,’ an Interstellar Romp Through Winsome Silliness 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z But Mr. McFerrin weaved together every sound into a lighthearted and deceptively simple demonstration of improvisation, even incorporating an errant cell phone ring. Jazz Breaks Out All Over at the Montreal Jazz Festival 2010-07-01T17:45:00Z We worked with improvisation, allowing actors to bring all their creativity and imagination to their roles. Painting the pit men: writers must dig for the real Chilean miners 2010-10-14T15:40:00Z Everyone looks at each other, nods, and the improvisation completes itself. About Group: Alexis Taylor swaps Hot Chip for jazz improv 2011-03-31T21:29:00Z But when Fox got to the first day, it was four hours of improvisation, and they couldn’t see where it was going. film: Mark and Jay Duplass Go From Indies to Studio Films 2010-06-11T23:35:00Z The metaphor fits: This is cerebral, modern jazz that still has a convincing pulse, and a wide berth for fetching improvisations. The Playlist: Shawn Mendes Shows His Scars, and 9 More New Songs 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z Passages of long, open harmony are common; sometimes those become lengthy stretches of collective improvisation, musicians conversing at a low simmer, resisting the typical urge to raise the temperature or set a course. Best Jazz Albums of 2020 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z “And of course jazz is where improvisation is part of the DNA of the music.” Coltrane by De Keersmaeker, Freewheeling but Structure Intact 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z “The flashing words are experimentation and improvisation,” said Crawford, 56, an art historian at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. With Art Colleges Closing, a Chicago Museum Has an Alternative 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z As she explained after class, “I teach a balance of technique, composition and improvisation, and weave them into the technique.” In Each Child, an Inner Choreographer 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Bebop was about jam sessions and improvisation, and you never knew who would show up at Minton’s; the musicians — Charles Mingus, Coleman Hawkins, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Lester Young — were the celebrities. The Harlem Jazz Club Where the Spirit of Billie Holiday Lives On 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Like “La Confidence” the final work would be a combination of set choreography and improvisation, the dancers continually observing and anticipating the birds’ movements, leading or reacting. DANCE: Choreography With Real Swans 2012-06-03T04:30:53Z If Mr. Bennett were a less-polite accompanist, she might venture more deeply into improvisation. Music Review: Just a Couple of Sports, Merrily Singing Along 2011-06-01T22:32:50Z But jazz is more eclectic, more surprising, largely because of the often-misunderstood art of improvisation. Listen up: ‘How to Listen to Jazz’ 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Miller said that he relied on improvisation in his filmmaking and might even rewrite a scene the morning it is to be shot. David Letterman, Even Retired, Keeps On Interviewing 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z One notable divergence was the use of a dancing chorus, an ensemble of nine young hoofers that got its own numbers, each a mix of choreography and spots for individual improvisation. Conjuring Spirits at the Tap Family Reunion 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z At the end of the day it’s Pan-American folk song, even with its high refinements of collective improvisation and even when small orchestras are involved. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-08-29T21:53:00Z So you think in the best instances, improvisation and composition would produce the same results? Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z A fair amount of improvisation occurred, as was to be expected. Fake Former Presidents Use Comedy for a Cause 2010-03-05T23:12:00Z But Stallworth’s own performance — as a black-hating white guy eager to defend the Aryan race — required some quick-witted improvisation of his own. He Wrote a Memoir About Infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan. Then Spike Lee Turned It Into a Film. 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z However complex the charts or the improvisation, their music flows as easily as a 12-bar blues. James Carter Organ Trio ? review 2011-07-24T16:31:00Z That looseness drives the record, as do easy structures that allow for quickie improvisations, strange four- and eight-bar diversions and an overall vibe of musicians making it work live in the studio. D'Angelo releases 'Black Messiah,' his politically charged new album 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z It was made with a Dogme-like set of rules encouraging spontaneous improvisation in real locales. The Comedian, Byzantium, The Big Wedding: this week's new films 2013-06-01T05:00:00Z Mills and McDuffie may be at the helm, but they allow for a great deal of room for improvisation from their Athens-sourced band. Mike Mills’ classical rock: Life after R.E.M. includes a new violin concerto bringing orchestra crowds to their feet 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z The rest is improvisation, the alchemy in the moment. Without Michael Bennett’s choreography, is it still ‘A Chorus Line’? 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z By the time he started touring America in the early 1940s, his flair for improvisation and a good pull quote emerged after he claimed he'd only play "classical music with the boring parts left out". Liberace: the 10 things you need to know 2013-06-07T11:27:40Z On the set, Kubrick allowed Sellers to improvise in rehearsals, and then Kubrick would take the best of Sellers’s improvisations, write them into the script, and shoot them. The Half-Century Anniversary of 'Dr. Strangelove' 2014-05-14T04:00:00Z We took apart the script and we talked about it and we talked about ourselves, our families, and we did some improvisations. 'The Judge' stars, director and producer reexamine the evidence 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z It wedged ecstatic improvised blues choruses inside an owlishly clever composition; improvisation and composition, it symbolised everything Brubeck believed in. The best of Dave Brubeck – in video clips 2012-12-06T11:38:57Z A few are improvisations or flights of fancy, like the grotto with fishermen that appears to have evolved from an ink-covered area of handwriting. Art Review: Spanish Draftsmanship That Leaps Off the Page 2010-10-14T21:52:00Z Meanwhile, jamming with Williams and Sanchez on Leaving Town, Metheny's blues/funk phrasing is as fresh as any of his recorded improvisations in recent times. Pat Metheny: Unity Band – review 2012-06-07T21:30:00Z For a concert in 2004 Mozart’s Requiem was paired with Persian and Indian improvisations. Critic’s Notebook: Mostly Mozart Opens With Louis Langrée and Lawrence Brownlee 2012-08-01T21:47:28Z But Leah Cox, adapting a structured improvisation that Bill T. Jones made for himself, couldn’t justify its repetitions. Dance Review: ?Dancer Crush? at New York Live Arts - Review 2011-10-09T21:21:50Z But Mr. Paxton, of comparable importance and influence, has been much more committed to the freedoms and strictures of improvisation: different every time, here and gone. Steve Paxton Reprises Dance Works at Dia:Beacon 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z Yes, but only in the few scenes we constructed in a hurry, resulting in unhealthy elements of improvisation. Mike Leigh on his first film, Bleak Moments 2013-01-01T17:00:01Z In the 1970s, when Mr. Paxton was a founder of the improvisational group Grand Union, he developed contact improvisation, which became an international genre. Review: At MoMA, Dances by Steve Paxton, an Original Too Rarely Seen 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z The first cookbook from The Times’s popular Cooking app is less a recipe collection than a spur to improvisation, with lavish photos. New & Noteworthy, From Vivian Gornick’s Essays to No-Recipe Recipes 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Successful memorials are broad enough in their invitation to allow for considerable improvisation by visitors. Review | New Native American memorial offers peace in the heart of one of the city’s few wild spaces 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z Similarly, while the music — played onstage by Vilner’s 10-piece big band — largely sticks to period standards like “Shiny Stockings,” the arrangements are new, tailored to these performers, the improvisatory sections responsive to the dancers’ improvisations. Swing Today: ‘Our Dance Is Modern Because We’re Alive Right Now’ 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z "Puerto Rican bilingual English style and language and voices. The wordplay, improvisation, it was amazing. That catapulted me. I never forgot it." U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera: 'The audience is half of the poem' 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z “He exposed them to creative process of improvisation and the sheer joy of playing.” Oran Sandel, who led Living Stage Theatre Company, dies at 64 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Over the course of his lifetime, Elahi established a repertory of some 75 modes and melodic genres and some 100 melodies and hymns, which underpinned his improvisations. Ostad Elahi, a Tanbur Master, Is Celebrated at Met Museum 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z It started from the premise of Mr. Coleman’s music: clarion bebop themes giving way to long and grooving collective improvisations with no predetermined chord changes. Playlist: CDs From Guillermo Klein, Kris Davis and the Body 2010-08-08T00:47:00Z Oja said the work is best described as contemporary: "I find it very alive, almost like improvisation." Estonia operetta lyricizes economic austerity 2013-04-06T09:01:05Z I’ve never had the nerve to do so much improvisation as I am now. Laurie Anderson keeps experimenting, next with ‘Letters to Jack’ 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Though widely known for stunning solo improvisations, the pianist enjoys near-telepathic communication with bassist Gary Peacock — who taught at Seattle's Cornish College for years — and drummer Jack DeJohnette. Earshot has Keith Jarrett, other hot headliners 2011-10-13T18:30:06Z It’s been 50 years since Soft Machine released its first album alchemizing intrepid, jazz-influenced improvisation with rock ’n’ roll fantasy, thus creating something like a blueprint for progressive rock. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Josef Albers assigned collage-making to his students as an exercise to attune the eye to the expressive character of found materials, and to train the hand in disciplined improvisation. The Short Life and Long Legacy of Black Mountain College 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z The transcriptions of the improvisations have provided me with material that I can generate a lot of pieces from in a very fast way. A Pioneering Black Composer Keeps Pushing 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z At eighteen, Rollins already foreshadows the modernism—jettisoning the changes for free melody-based improvisations—of which he would be in the forefront in the late fifties and the sixties. The Year’s Most Essential Jazz Reissue 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z It’s not quite improvisation because choreographically everything is very placed. What Do Two Fires Have In Common? It Comes Down to Guts. 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z Each event is a site-specific experience; as the programme says, the "evening is a free improvisation determined by the performing space". Jan Garbarek and the Hilliard Ensemble 2010-10-06T21:30:00Z How do you create an orchestral version of a piece like that, one that has its origin in avant-jazz performance practice, and that still needs to have room for improvisation in the orchestral setting? A Pioneering Black Composer Keeps Pushing 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z It is one of the few recordings of the group's live visual improvisations. Single Wing Turquoise Bird flashes back to its '60s light shows 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z They brought spooky calm to “Unrealistic Love,” a Very Very Circus tune, and some solar-flare intensity to “The Flew,” a piece that courts free improvisation. Henry Threadgill Festival at Harlem Stage 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z Instead, Mr. Mitchell’s playbook leans on long thematic arcs, slithery polytonality, rhythmic caginess and a chamber-like internal logic that carries over to the practice of group improvisation. Review: On ‘Vista Accumulation,’ Matt Mitchell Plays Tension Like an Instrument 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z The Second Reform Act of 1867, which added half a million voters to the electorate, was the most notable of his inspired improvisations. Disraeli: Or the Two Lives by Douglas Hurd and Edward Young – review 2013-07-17T17:05:21Z Instead, Verlaine’s songs reveled in the open-ended: in improvisations that could spiral out toward free jazz and in verbal enigmas and paradoxes. Tom Verlaine’s 15 Essential Songs 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z The goal is to reflect the way hustle was learned initially: through observation and improvisation on the dance floor. A Walk in Their Heels: Meet the Hustle Evangelist 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Ensemble gave the premiere of a chamber-orchestra version of one of your improvisations, “Distant Radio Transmission.” A Pioneering Black Composer Keeps Pushing 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z The improvisations of other dancers to a conversation about atheism look like a conversation. Dance Review: Sean Curran Company at the Joyce Theater 2013-02-01T22:53:53Z The second is swinging, which is the opposite of improvisation. Wynton Marsalis Finds Solace in the Optimism of the Blues 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z They met to share their work but ultimately created different sounds for each chapter, a range that includes experimental music, improvisation, folk traditions and "large scale quotations of Monteverdi," Lowenstein said. Industry's 'Hopscotch' opera will take to L.A. streets in cars 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z “Titanique” is playing at the subterranean Asylum NYC, the former home of the Upright Citizens Brigade comedy troupe, a fitting spot for a show that incorporates a degree of improvisation. ‘Titanique’ Review: A Musical Finds Its Sea Legs 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z Much of it is a monotonous look at the bustle of urban life — with too many moments of amateur improvisation — and, like “Pursuit,” it’s better suited to the men. Dance Review: Juilliard Dance at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2012-12-14T23:58:27Z The array of Wilco side projects suggested a study of its component parts: some hazy melody, some shrewd improvisation, a lot of careful texture. Music: Jeff Tweedy and Wilco Build a Festival at Mass MoCA 2010-08-16T22:44:00Z A version of this show with the improvisation dialed up even 10 percent would be one that felt infinitely more alive. Westworld's Finale Raises the Bar But Doesn't Quite Clear It 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z A vigorous duo performance by Paula Matthusen and Philip White — on laptops and sundry electronics — referenced free improvisation, noise rock, as well as the outer planes of dance music. Celebrating a Union That Rewired Classical Music 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z She creates in scraps, from her own improvisations. Twyla Tharp: The possibilities are endless 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z Still, Rauschenberg never lost his hankering for improvisation and no artist was ever better at banging mismatched objects into compelling configurations. A Rare Look at Rauschenberg’s Second Act 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z As in “Hamilton,” the smash Broadway hip-hop musical that netted 16 Tony nominations this year, the 14 actors in “Ça ira” developed some of the dialogue with weeks of improvisation during rehearsals. ‘Ça ira,’ a Birth-of-a-Nation Tale in France, Wins Molière Award for Best Play 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Would you say that with improvisation you're trying to get to a place where it's as fluent as speech? Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z Three years later his practice is now aimed almost purely at improvisation. Gary Marcus, Professor at N.Y.U., Picks Up a Guitar 2012-01-26T00:47:36Z But the prompt that Ms. Mnouchkine provided to get their improvisations going had nothing to do with that. A Theater Visionary ‘Nourished by the World’ 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z The violinist Lady Jess played a wistful improvisation as we walked past her, through a tunnel formed by weeping beeches. Review: In a Cemetery, Music Lives 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z It allowed for the looseness and improvisation that sometimes gets squeezed out of movies. On TV, a Super-Sized Performer Breaking Out of a Small Box 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z In the middle movement, “Noise Impromptu,” two notebook computers provided directions for a guided improvisation crammed with exaggerated squeaks, grinds and skitters. Music Review: Conor Hanick Performing John Cage at the Stone 2013-01-03T23:09:13Z Is a scene like that highly choreographed down to every movement, or is there room for improvisation? Robert Pattinson and Director David Cronenberg on Cars, Cosmopolis and Fans Who Care 2012-08-14T20:48:47Z And his interest in improvisation first brought Mr. Sorey into Alarm Will Sound’s repertoire last year. 17 Players in Five States, Composing Over the Internet 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z Arnie's expertise as a double bassist was well suited to this, and it became clear that the eventual performance would include major elements of jazz improvisation. Robert Macfarlane's Untrue Island: the voices of Orford Ness 2012-07-08T18:01:01Z Jazz is an inherently experimentative form, she said, developed through eras of cultural exchange and sonic improvisation, and she sees her own work, “as intuitive as possible,” as fitting into that legacy. MacArthur ‘genius’ grants launch winners from obscurity: ‘Now I feel like I’m working with a face’ 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z I recently saw a production of “Sense and Sensibility” by the Bedlam theater company, which injected Austen’s calm certainties with a revivifying dose of mad improvisation and physicality. In Trying Times, the Balm of Jane Austen 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z “Heal Yourself and Move” addresses that idea explicitly with its titular mantra-refrain, promising spiritual restoration through physical improvisation. Perspective | How to listen alone in a lockdown 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z A certain amount of improvisation was used – something I'm not always a fan of – but here it works really well. Excluded and Lost Land of the Tiger 2010-09-22T06:59:00Z Mr. Kittappa, a Ph.D. fellow in composition at the University of California, Berkeley, writes music meshing rock, electronics and improvisation. In Make Music Winter, Critics Find Their Inner Yodelers and Pilgrims 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Keszler’s music inhabits a gray area between those poles, using rigorously conceived scores to harness the inchoate energy of improvisation and its capacity for surprise. Music Review: Eli Keszler’s ‘L-Carrier’ at Eyebeam in Chelsea 2012-06-10T22:00:27Z But instead of “improvisation,” Brother Ah preferred the term “spontaneous creativity,” and “it really came to me when I was playing with Sun Ra,” he said. Perspective | Brother Ah heard the music in everything 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Led Zeppelin sneaked in deftly on Tuesday evening, with a lick from “Stairway to Heaven” as part of an improvisation by L’Arpeggiata’s double bassist, Boris Schmidt. Review: L’Arpeggiata Opens Before Bach Festival at Carnegie Hall 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z The simplicity of the original Waldorf salad has encouraged improvisation, almost since the moment the dish was introduced. The Waldorf Is Shutting Its Doors, but Its Salad Will Live On 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z You start with a script and add a lot of improvisation. 'The League' Creators Jeff and Jackie Schaffer on Their Show's Final Season 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z One track on which this happens, “Kismet,” is a three-minute improvisation on bass saxophone, a notoriously bulky instrument that Mr. Landrus handles with feathery grace. New Music: New Albums From Kirin J. Callinan and Brian Landrus 2013-07-01T22:17:06Z Much of the collages using found sound seemed to involve improvisation. From Silence to Noise: Rauschenberg’s Influence on Music 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Yelchin, 22, and Ms. Jones, 27, made Mr. Doremus’s film without a script, without knowing each other, through improvisation and, ultimately, a process that both declared was “total freedom.” ?Like Crazy? Was Filmed Without a Script 2011-10-23T01:03:02Z It’s clearly in the contemporary classical tradition — though there’s also room for improvisation. David Sanford’s Music Has Flown Under the Radar. It Shouldn’t. 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z His son Deepak served as an unfortunate, perhaps inevitable contrast: frazzled and frantic in his own demonstration of rhythmic improvisation, his eyebrows putting question marks on everything. Dance Review: Pandit Birju Maharaj at Symphony Space 2012-10-16T21:55:27Z He programs it with algorithms, so that the instrument responds to his improvisations in real time. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z So instead, we came up with what we’re calling the ‘Crazy Girls and Naughty Boys,’ wild people who work in improvisation. The Dutch Composer Louis Andriessen at Carnegie Hall 2010-04-01T20:43:00Z Q: You do a lot of improvisation and sketch work; does that give you an advantage going into a competition like this? Five Seattle Comedians vying for a chance to appear on NBC's ‘Last Comic Standing' 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Michael was acting in Minneapolis when he heard the news about Mary, who as a 24-year-old employee of the American Dental Association had swallowed her fear and taken an improvisation course at Loyola University. Hollywood's fickle; family ties endure 2011-03-16T21:28:00Z Indeed, improvisation has helped the store stay in business. In the Jersey Suburbs, a Bookstore Whose Vibe Is Pure Narnia 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z He ever so gracefully lands into the melody of “Just Friends” and perfectly introduces the song at the end of his improvisation. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Bebop 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z They drive the pieces, introduce various kinds of improvisation into them, bring them to a close. Playlist : New CDs: Jesse Davis, Cyrus Chestnut, Bobby Womack 2012-06-10T04:23:03Z These are desperate measures, improvisations meant to generate cash flow and keep tenuous businesses alive as long as possible in the hopes that the current disruption won’t last too long. The coronavirus will change wine shopping, and some independent winemakers won’t survive it 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z And I think with improvisation and in journalism, a curiosity. Jordan Klepper has a theory on comedy: It's "baby explosions of humanity" 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z The community he nurtures has basic requirements—an understanding of Charlie Parker’s language for improvisation, a fluency in multiple rhythmic traditions, and a blend of rigor and openness of mind. ‘Live at the Village Vanguard, Vol. I (The Embedded Sets)’ by Steve Coleman Review: The Complex Made Accessible 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z This track is authentic and unpretentious, blending acoustic instruments with electronic sounds, catchy hooks with improvisation and diverse musical sections, and jazz chords with polyrhythmic raps that express personal stories in hip-hop vernacular. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love 21st-Century Jazz 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z An esteemed pianist, composer and instructor, Ms. Crothers encouraged students to invest in their intuition, and to chase improvisations as far as they could go. For Mara Rosenbloom, Piano as a Remedy and a Force in Jazz 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z The arrangement seems to teeter between structure and improvisation, straight groove and cosmic freedom. Chick Corea: Hear 12 Essential Performances 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z Perhaps they reflect a jazz improvisation or maybe they echo the way the world looks when viewed from the bottom of a bottle. Theater Review: ‘Fabulous Miss Marie’ Drinks and Dances at Castillo Theater 2014-05-07T21:36:15Z Saturday night’s free concert at Central Park Summerstage amounted to three and a half hours of intelligent groove, informed by jazz but rarely beholden to it, with improvisation as a binding but nonidiomatic force. Music Review: Three Bands, Floating Their Music on a Cool Breeze 2011-06-12T22:53:07Z The movement looks like a beginners' workshop in contact improvisation, lacking a chemistry of touch. Lost Dog 2010-05-10T21:35:00Z Juggling several exchanges with men, narrating the conversation in various voices, she transforms the banter on a dating app into compelling long-form improvisation. She Swipes Right on Tinder, and Everyone’s in on the Joke 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z But you don’t need to wait that long to see a dynamic comic performer with a rubbery face and a gift for improvisation. The Week Ahead: Dec. 11 ? 17 2011-12-09T19:28:35Z His later projects included an album of unaccompanied alto flute improvisations. Sam Most, Who Helped Bring the Flute Into the Jazz Mainstream, Dies at 82 2013-06-23T02:12:54Z It was also the first time improvisation had featured in her work. Coltrane by De Keersmaeker, Freewheeling but Structure Intact 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z We need, or at least I need, a certain amount of spontaneity, a certain amount of improvisation at every show ... Lauryn returns? 2010-09-02T09:26:00Z And instead of gradually escalating the craziness of her flights of improvisation, Hughes seems unsure of her lines and stuck in a one-note state of fluster. Intiman fest opens with a hungry farce, Italian-style 2013-07-15T20:09:34Z In these familiar premises, Thede, whose parents named her after Robin Williams, foregrounds character and improvisations, allowing room to riff and improvise, never letting seconds go by without a joke. ‘A Black Lady Sketch Show’ Has the Most Exciting Comics (and the Silliest) 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Yet it also made sense: their album Amok wove together sections of the band's studio improvisations with electronic arrangements so intricately that you wondered how it would work on stage. Atoms for Peace – review 2013-07-25T15:06:00Z The core is improvisation, but these theaters have increasingly diversified their offerings over the years, presenting sketch, stand-up and occasionally short plays. Annoyance Theater Moves Brooklyn Into Comedy Theater Scene 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z I don’t clean up or edit or polish improvisations. Patti Smith’s most personal interview: “The things that make me feel strange – I’ve transformed them into work” 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z In the second, fans text in themes and ideas to jump-start improvisation, ala the “Stew Art Series.” Umphrey's McGee lets fans conduct the band in concert 2012-04-19T17:23:00Z On Feb. 3, Stubbs returns to Daniels Hall to perform with musicians Bill Frisell and Mikhail Schmidt and host Tom Allen for "Structured Impulse," a night of interdisciplinary improvisation. Pacific MusicWorks debuts first complete season 2011-10-20T20:12:06Z Meanwhile, her judgment as a bandleader and an arranger is apparent in her own playing, which includes improvisation; brief, precise hockets between her guitar and the quartet provide a sense of liftoff during “Flying Song.” 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z Coxon then talks passionately about how improvisation drives all kinds of music-making – and how everyone in About Group has always loved, and played, songs. About Group: Alexis Taylor swaps Hot Chip for jazz improv 2011-03-31T21:29:00Z But then you have to give yourself over to the not yet, the not planned, which is the mystery of improvisation.” Clarinetist and composer James Falzone blends improvisation with liturgical music in ‘The Already and the Not Yet’ 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z On the other hand, he has distinguished himself as a saxophonist with an uncommonly round tone, a layer of grit underneath that tone and an organic approach to improvisation. Review | Saxophonist Azar Lawrence’s Coltrane devotion takes center stage at Blues Alley 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z Tobin, a Dublin-born singer with a background in improvisation, is releasing an album of languid, stripped-down versions of King's extremely well-known songs. Christine Tobin weaves a new Tapestry 2010-06-24T22:30:00Z They may sound like adorable forest imps, or perhaps a tedious improvisation troupe, but drumlins are actually elongated hills. Designer Mary Little Unveils a Series of Minimalist Textile Wall Hangings 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Terrance Hayes, 42, Pittsburgh: Hayes brings a sense of verbal improvisation to poems exploring issues of race, family and gender. Meet MacArthur's new 'genius grant' winners 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z The iO theater, a mainstay of Chicago’s comedy scene and part of the foundation of modern improvisation, is closing permanently, its owner said. Chicago Comedy Institution iO Theater Is Closing 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z “It really stressed the importance of improvisation, which is virtually nonexistent in classical music playing,” he said. Patrick Belaga Is a Cellist Who Moonlights as a Model 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z But through tenacity and improvisation, Fletcher Street has remained a cherished refuge and an ardent pastime for both kids and adults on the streets of Philadelphia’s Strawberry Mansion. ‘Concrete Cowboy’ shows Philadelphia’s Black cowboy culture 2021-03-30T04:00:00Z Total improvisation is also antithetical to Cunningham’s practice, but these are expert improvisers, and in their gentle, speechlike interactions they keep discovering novel and fugitive beauty. Review: Who Can Commune With Cunningham and Cage? 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z “You weren’t given lines, or a script at Anna Scher. You had to make it up. It was improvisation and it let out a lot of steam.” Daniel Kaluuya: ‘I'm not a spokesman. No one’s expected to speak for all white people’ 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z There was just a lot of improvisation that was encouraged and it was great. In “Set It Up,” Taye Diggs loves playing a terrible boss and wants to film more rom-coms now 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z Her chords, both dense and concise, offset free improvisations that reflect Ms. Sanchez’s careful attention to narrative clarity. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z The show is billed as "an exquisite night of structured improvisation encompassing surges and shocks." Music will meet dance in Danse Perdue's avant-garde 'IRRUPTIONS' 2010-09-16T20:15:00Z The quartet in residence will be PubliQuartet, which incorporates improvisation and contemporary compositions into its performances of the canon. MetLiveArts Series Features Podcaster as Artist in Residence 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z This points to that quality of improvisation with the work you’re doing. Vince Gilligan: I’ve never Googled “Breaking Bad” 2012-07-23T20:47:00Z Small, rushed strokes predominate, with occasional forays into linear improvisations that deftly balance geometry and image. Art Review: At Hauser & Worth, Ziolkowski?s U.S. Solo Debut 2010-07-05T21:52:00Z The thundering incantations of the second part, “Free Among the Dead,” were formed out of improvisations with the producer Dave Hunt. Diamanda Galás Gives Voice to Unbearable Pain, Once More 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z But after that triumph at age 9, he dropped theater for soccer, later finding his way back through improvisation classes at the Anna Scher Theater, a neighborhood institution that offered inexpensive drop-in sessions. Daniel Kaluuya Isn’t Waiting for Your Approval 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z The exchange, which pivoted on the subject of improvisation, left a strong impression. Jon Batiste Will Lead ‘The Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Band in a Style He Sees Fit 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z A program note tells us that the choreography contains some element of improvisation, which in this case was surely of more stimulus to the performers than to the audience. Dance Review: Illustrious Local Compatriot Contributes to a Troupe?s New York Visit 2011-08-16T21:52:58Z The program juxtaposed straightforward songs with open-ended improvisations. Music Review: Allies in Improvisation and in a Cause 2011-03-28T23:31:42Z Being a classic British vehicle, the testing involved hasty improvisation with strands of wool and sticky tape. Jaguar E-Type turns 50 2011-02-08T17:48:20Z But as with both Sorey and Burnt Sugar, improvisation is only part of the draw. For Music, a Fall Deluge of Performances Is Beginning 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z As a composer, she is often minimal, using songs to establish some general shapes and then letting improvisation do the rest of the work. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z On his 2016 debut album, “The Truth of What I Am > The Narcissist,” Burton coaxed a luminous glow in his piano tones even during his wildest, most outside improvisations. Review | George Burton takes the audience on a wild ride 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z Jazz improvisation requires a lot more discipline and preparation than these dancers appear to have. Review: Urban Bush Women Channel John Coltrane at BAM 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z I realized that while teaching her, he was doing tiny improvisations with his voice, which pointed to a different kind of imagination and training. With Open Ears, Indian Ragas and Western Melodies Merge 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Unlike many bebop pianists, however, Mr. Silver emphasized melodic simplicity over harmonic complexity; his improvisations, while sophisticated, were never so intricate as to be inaccessible. Horace Silver, 85, Master of Earthy Jazz, Is Dead 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z And beyond that you were hearing principles of free improvisation between Mr. Watkins and Mr. Trammell: agreement, opposition, density, space, development. Review: Black Spirituals, a Duo That Defies Categories 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Most important, there were two performers experienced in the risk-taking of improvisation. ‘Stardust’ Makes Debut at Queer New York Arts Festival 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z To create a rigorous, engaging suite of music singing the praises of homeopathic healing and improvisation, you need chutzpah and imagination in equal doses. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z He was, Ted Gioia wrote in his book “West Coast Jazz,” “inspired by the process of improvisation rather than by its history.” Dave Brubeck, Jazz Musician, Dies at 91 2012-12-05T18:31:41Z She looks scornful when I ask why improvisation is so important. Ariane Mnouchkine and the Théâtre du Soleil: a life in theatre 2012-08-10T14:31:00Z Soon enough she was center stage, laughing as she invited her fellow “old-timers” to join her for an improvisation both quirky and moving. Dance Review: Jawole Willa Jo Zollar?s ?Black Jam? at Danspace Project 2012-02-19T20:52:27Z For his part of this double bill, Mr. Evans will delve into solo improvisation, as he does on an intense new album, “Lifeblood.” Jazz Listings for Oct. 7-13 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Programming includes discussions and sound improvisations by an impressive array of artists, scholars and critics. 9 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z So much of our personal lives can feel like desperate improvisation, but Flock reveals the scripts we consult — from novels, television, family lore and religion. First Comes Love, Then Comes What Exactly? 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z This music is heard alongside an electronic backdrop that layers dozens of takes of guitar improvisation through a tape echo. Review: Anthony de Mare Introduces the Last of His Sondheim Project 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z Noting that Fitzgerald’s improvisations always stayed harmonically sound, the music writer Will Friedwald recites a lengthy list of songs she incorporated during a five-minute scat version of “How High the Moon.” ‘Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things’ Review: Words Without Much Music 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z Matt Dillon is in sync with the way many people like to eat now: informal, seasonal, a meal that’s more improvisation than set piece. Bar Sajor is Matt Dillon’s finest yet 2013-06-13T21:27:15Z Sixty sites across Berlin will showcase 200 different productions, ranging across the genres: opera, dance, theater, music, literature, cabaret, puppetry, improvisation, acrobatics. In Transit: In Berlin, a 'Long Night' of Culture 2011-04-15T10:00:30Z "The result is dramatically a bit rough, ready and ragged but it lends the evening a useful whiff of improvisation and spontaneity." Sunny reviews for Kinks musical 2014-05-02T12:35:07Z But it’s a pretty good handle for the aural environments Varner and diverse collaborators create this time of year for unorthodox improvisation. Wild sounds: Jazz improv and field recordings mix for ‘End of Summer Sound Vespers’ 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z For that project, Ban cavalierly dropped eight of Enescu's sinewy themes between long passages of sympathetic improvisation and astute deployment of a mixed-genre lineup. This week's new live music 2012-05-18T23:05:00Z This means an emphasis on improvisation, throwing out traditional things such as shoot schedules, and doing bonding exercises instead. Kevin Bacon: ‘I thought I'd be sent to the TV graveyard’ 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z But much of the film consists not of blistering to-camera improvisation but of loosely structured backstage footage. ‘Juice WRLD: Into the Abyss’ Review: Free Fall 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z And the climax, in classic Savall style, was a playful, gently swaying improvisation on a Renaissance “canario” dance melody, building into flurries of notes frizzling off Mr. Savall’s tiny treble viol. A Musical Handshake Spanning Centuries: Venice in New York 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z She was a master of improvisation, the original mother of invention. “Auld Lang Syne” and Four Generations of My Family 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z “Trisha’s work had a very strong impact on me as a young dancer,” she said, especially how Brown, “in her idiosyncratic movement,” found “a way to use improvisation and then also to set it.” Sasha Waltz’s ‘In C’ Marries Choreography and Improvisation 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z “This is more of an improvisation. I’m exploring, imagining.” An Odissi Dancer Charts New Paths in ‘the Land of Discovery’ 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Using a rare example of transcribed improvisation from near the end of Clara’s life as a model, Ms. Loftus presents improvisations of her own to link together short character pieces. Clara Schumann, Music’s Unsung Renaissance Woman 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z Following the premiere of “Everything Must Go,” his Bruckner curtain raiser for the full orchestra, he gave an intimate concert that included improvisations with Ms. Lee and the tap dancer Caleb Teicher. Conrad Tao Was Never Just Another Prodigy 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z His work was a combination of artistic improvisation and low-budget invention. Perspective | Martin Margiela did himself a favor: He anticipated fashion’s future — and its failures 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z On the camp’s second day, Goodwin got the girls started on their own improvisation by playing a selection from “Zodiac Suite,” and asking if anyone knew the composer. Girls Are Outnumbered in Jazz. At This Summer Camp, They Run the Show. 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Hence its contradictory sense of smoky enclosure and unbounded space, of deprecation and self-belief, of lyricism and improvisation. Birmingham Royal Ballet ? Pointes of View 2010-09-25T23:06:00Z In addition, Mr. Byrne has created a structured improvisation piece at Lever House, home to an exhibit of Mr. LaChapelle’s work, “From Darkness To Light.” ArtsBeat: Talking Dance and Art with David LaChapelle and John Byrne 2011-06-29T20:44:05Z It would be impossible to recreate the old improvisations and the nuances of the studio mix with its vast, lonely phantom spaces and instruments appearing and disappearing like daydreams. Music Review: Spiritualized ?Floats in Space? at Radio City 2010-08-01T22:22:00Z One is highly composed, the other born of improvisation. Listening to Music in the Desert at Dawn 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z While his vibrant score, created with the musicians, opened up space for brief improvisations with the dancers, in the end, it seemed more like a concert with dancers than a fully realized dance. Review: Michelle Dorrance Returns to the Joyce. Where’s the Zip? 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z Inside, however, activity is truly buzzing, as Nublu has become a stronghold for musical improvisation across genres. 10 of the best hidden bars and restaurants in New York 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Laced with opportunities for individual improvisation, “2.6 Pentadactyl” veered between unanimity of movement and a circling constellation of sound and color, creating an aural feast. Review | Imani Winds quintet warms up a frigid evening 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Looking like a cross between contact improvisation and ballroom dance, the duets share a similar vocabulary of dips, bends, lunges, low lifts and smooth exchanges of weight. Review: Those Touchy-Feely Folks on the Plazas? They’re in ‘Pop-Up Duets’ 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z On “Run for the Red Fort,” the melody and improvisations are rooted in the chandrakauns raga, meaning the notes are chosen from that harmonic vocabulary. The Playlist: Frank Ocean Rescues ‘Moon River,’ and 10 More New Songs 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z “I started playing really perverted versions of it — I’d refer to it just for a second, then I’d go off on an improvisation.” Chick Corea: Hear 12 Essential Performances 2021-02-12T05:00:00Z And in every case, the open line and feeling of improvisation allow readers space to let their own imagination work on how characters might look and behave. Quentin Blake at 80: the illustrator's magical art 2012-12-14T22:55:10Z The LMP celebrates its third anniversary with an evening saluting improvisation on Earth and in space. 5 events around Seattle for the classical-music fan 2017-04-07T04:00:00Z Levy, who has directed "Night at the Museum" movies, said he always allows for improvisation and that Fey and Bateman are "as good as it gets" at coming up with ideas. Fey, Bateman improv sibling love in 'This is Where I Leave You' 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Ellman fashions a quick and elegant solo, but then comes the track’s centerpiece, a braying-and-pecking collective improvisation by the reeds, both chaotic and in perfect order. New Music: ‘La Misma Gran Senora’ by Jenni Rivera and ‘Tiresian Symmetry’ by Jason Robinson 2012-12-17T22:57:59Z Mr. Gosling was a Zorn veteran by that point: Mr. Zorn had written “Illuminations,” which experiments with improvisation within a notated work, for him, and more premieres had followed. The Unsingable Music That Stumped a Diva 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Topping the bill is Father Figures, a young Brooklyn quintet unafraid of turning up the volume on their rock-out-ready improvisations. Sounds Outside brings jazz to the people ? free and outdoors 2010-07-15T21:27:00Z Italy's love of improvisation goes up and down depending on the politics. Evan Parker's musical utopia 2010-04-22T21:35:00Z The standard genres – comedy, melodrama, western, film noir – he took to himself with peculiar zest; his secret was an ease at improvisation that required a constant adroitness with his company. Howard Hawks, Hollywood's finest practitioner of everyday chivalry 2011-01-15T00:05:49Z “I do a lot of improvisation but then I meticulously edit everything, and he does that with his visual choices,” Mr. Overall said. This Artist Got His Start as an I.C.U. Nurse 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Gilman points to “transformations,” exercises in which improvisations were rapidly changed to build agility, suppleness and ensemble unity, as a crucial link between these two figures. Sam Shepard, the cowboy playwright who rewrote the rules of the American stage 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Time-manipulated movies, which require extreme forethought and preclude improvisation, are, by their nature, literary ones. “Bird Box,” Reviewed: An Apocalypse Built for Netflix 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z The friction between complementary forces -- control and improvisation, palpability and ephemerality -- generates energy and movement within the work. Cynthia Ona Innis' painted topographies resonate 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z “We did ballet, jazz, improvisations, we made performances,” Ms. De Keersmaeker recounted. Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, the Passionate Formalist 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z For more than sixty years now, Taylor, who was born in 1929, has produced, often amid great criticism, some of the more difficult, emotional, and percussive jazz improvisations ever recorded. Prince, Cecil Taylor, and Beyoncé’s Shape-Shifting Black Body 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z “I also thought improvisation would be a helpful way for performers to get back into material after not being onstage for so long,” he said. A Choreographer Finds His Way, Getting Lost in the Stars 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z The compositions are varied and memorable, but improvisation and resourcefulness are the crucial drivers of their live impact. This week's new live music 2012-12-01T00:05:58Z Of course, improvisation is the most important one. Ibrahim Maalouf Gives His Trumpet a Human Voice 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z I gather that improvisation is not encouraged on the Mad Men set. Rogue male 2013-04-07T17:00:01Z This is one of those facts of musical life, especially in improvisation: People matter. A Long-Lost Score, Rebuilt With the Help of a Photo 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z He was nearly evangelical in his belief in improvisation as a way of viewing the world, Mr. Sweet said. Richard Schaal Dies at 86; Known for Physical Comedy 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z But he has also been a TV presenter, nightclub co-owner and has released an album of solo piano improvisations. Andrew WK: meet the US's new cultural ambassador to Bahrain 2012-11-26T20:00:05Z He continued to gingerly approach the new medium in his second-string quartet based on a catchy tune he used for improvisation, and "G Song" proved another delight. For Minimalist music mastermind Terry Riley, a major birthday bash 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z On April 7 and 8, he is appearing in the courtyard of Performance Space New York, a storied East Village site of the avant-garde, for two nights of freestyle improvisation. Storyboard P: Where Is the Place for a Genius of Street Dance? 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z He was then educated at Claremont Men's College, where he studied political science and also took improvisation acting classes. Robin Williams obituary 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z Hot Chip had always flirted with improvisation live, but this was something new for Taylor. About Group: Alexis Taylor swaps Hot Chip for jazz improv 2011-03-31T21:29:00Z “He builds them on the basis of elaborate improvisations, constructing long scenes of comic misadventures and amorous misunderstandings,” he wrote. Jacques Rozier, Last of the French New Wave Directors, Dies at 96 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Rudd was also invited to participate in conversations and videotaped improvisations, as was his wife, Julie. Judd Apatow’s Life as Art in ‘This Is 40’ 2012-11-14T15:13:43Z During the pandemic, Marshall started to embrace improvisation; he also found himself drawn to jazz, which led him to think about the role improvisation plays in Black art. A Choreographer Finds His Way, Getting Lost in the Stars 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z She avoided listening to any of the initial tracks before entering the studio, to maintain the purity of her impulses, and recorded her improvisations. How the R&B Innovator Kelela Unlocked a New Level 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z At its idealistic peak, as in recent large-ensemble works by the composer and bandleader Anthony Braxton, improvisation can represent a vision of collaborative democracy. Music Review: Jazz Meets Classical at the Miller Theater 2010-07-25T23:55:00Z But by the time he’s sitting there in one of this country’s primo landmarks of improvisation, innovation and artistic introspection — of incandescence and intensity — Carmichael no longer seemed to be doing a routine. Jerrod Carmichael Knows How to Wear the Truth 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z An unnotated improvisation on themes devised by Fisher, it's pleasant enough — but hints at New Age tendencies that Fisher successfully avoids in the close and twining polyphonies of "Kocho." Review: Seattle's Fisher Ensemble says yes to Noh in 'Kocho' 2011-04-09T19:31:05Z "For me, it's sort of like an acting or improvisation exercise," Maltese says. The Boy Who Lived Forever 2011-07-07T09:15:00Z Her witty nickname for her occasional vocal improvisations was “Jewish scat.” Review: Linda Lavin, Scratching Out Fresh Starts, at 54 Below 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z But by his teenage years the swing era had arrived and the jazz-tinged style known as Western swing had evolved, bringing improvisation and invention to the standard hillbilly band. Johnny Gimble, Who Fiddled His Way to Fame, Dies at 88 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z The arrangements are measured and careful, but the rest runs on impulse; what you retain of his shows are his improvisations, volatile from moment to moment but ultimately consonant and brought into line. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-04-25T21:59:41Z Years earlier, as a client in training, I had occasion to benefit from a therapist’s confident improvisation. What the therapist heard: ‘What would you do if your client behaved like a dog?’ 2019-12-21T05:00:00Z Even when his improvisations did not amount to much — in “Our Worst Tendencies,” a collaboration with Ms. Negrón and eight bell-playing volunteers from the audience — they were always amusing. Music Review: Ecstatic Music Fest With Sxip Shirey and Ang?lica Negr?n 2012-02-08T22:50:39Z Chopin’s ethereal nocturnes, poetic ballades, audacious scherzos, aptly titled impromptus and lacy waltzes often sound like written-out improvisations. ArtsBeat: The Top 10 Composers: The Romantics 2011-01-19T12:00:08Z In a 1982 interview at his Cornish office, he described music as an “experiential landscape,” improvisation like “playing tag with the mind.” Jazz musician Gary Peacock, who died this month, spent some crucial years in Seattle 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z But in the early 1970s, well before many others, he was using those repetitions as a structure to contain improvisation, as well as rhythms and harmonies borrowed from pop. Minimalist Composer Julius Eastman, Dead for 26 Years, Crashes the Canon 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z "He has done things with improvisation that really no one has ever done." Ma, Diamond, Streep receive Kennedy Center Honors 2011-12-05T14:27:10Z Mr. Smith was revered by guitarists for his pure tone and flawless technique, which gave his most complex improvisations an effortless, almost weightless quality. Johnny Smith, Venerable Jazz Guitarist, Dies at 90 2013-06-18T14:13:23Z If the earlier works hinged on notions of control, these celebrate process, improvisation, freedom. Sui Jianguo: Chinese sculpture about control and its absence 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z That bush, at once natural observation and fantastic improvisation, is obviously Leonardo. The Virgin of the Rocks: Da Vinci decoded 2010-07-13T20:31:00Z “When I’m making the piece, it has a lot of improvisation, like a conversation,” he said. The Artistic Machines of Anton Alvarez 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z His voicing and articulation were delightfully varied, and his use of embellishments was imbued with a delectable spirit of improvisation. Review | French pianist has something to say about the Goldberg Variations 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z He finished the main program and was going to close with two of his dazzlingly polished improvisations. Music Review: Christopher Houlihan at Church of the Ascension 2012-06-04T21:59:02Z To create the soundtrack, the Bucket Boys improvised at 160 beats per minute, then the others laid down improvisations in response, riffing on the blues song “Sweet Home, Chicago.” ‘It Taunts the Eye’: Footwork’s Fast Moves Loom Over Chicago 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z Was Cage doing some improvisation, based on acting tricks of his own? Joe review – these woods are lovely, dark and deep 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z In Bach’s time, all composers were trained in improvisation, and Bach’s own ingenious improvisations were praised even by those who considered his music overly rigorous and old-fashioned. Glenn Gould’s Every Detail. But Why? 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z Classically trained, he’s been involved in free improvisation for 30 years or so, working mostly in Europe; he hasn’t performed in New York since 2004. Music Review: Wayne Horvitz, and Sax and Percussion, at the Stone 2010-04-08T22:12:00Z “I was in such a place of improvisation that it didn’t feel quite right for me to start dictating to people what to do with their bodies.” A Choreographer Finds His Way, Getting Lost in the Stars 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Both Mr. Dylan and the Stones hold on to a 1960s spirit of improvisation; with them, no two concerts are the same. Review: Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones, Electric, Not Just Nostalgic, at Desert Trip 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z She performed at small, underground spaces and toured with artists of different disciplines, including musicians and poets, to present works based on improvisations. Mika Kurosawa, Leading Figure in Contemporary Dance in Japan, Dies at 59 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Choreography and improvisation, leader and follower — such binaries blurred in the swirl and swing. Swing Today: ‘Our Dance Is Modern Because We’re Alive Right Now’ 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z But Magma personalized its sources, constructing symphonic-scale pieces with nooks of improvisation. Review: Magma Plays Prog-Rock at Le Poisson Rouge 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z Allen and his regular trio at the center, playing on-the-spot improvisations and some of Mr. Allen’s own written music. ArtsBeat: A Lot of Jazz. Many More People. 2011-01-08T22:14:32Z According to the press materials, “pink pony 2” is set choreography, while “pink pony 1” is improvisation guided by instructions. Dance Review: Yvonne Meier’s ‘This Is Not a Pink Pony,’ at the Abrons Arts Center 2013-06-02T21:24:55Z He rightly emphasizes that long-form improvisation is a distinctly American form, but overstates the case — you see this even in his title — ignoring major figures and traditions in other countries. In the World of Comedy, Improv May Now Be More Important Than Stand-Up 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z The tone here is playful, and the finished portfolio occupies a realm somewhere between dreamy improvisation and the casual goofing of two friends passing notes in study hall. Mario Schifano’s Excellent New York Adventure 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z When Lattimore moved to Philadelphia after college, a vibrant network of young experimental musicians indoctrinated her in improvisation. Mary Lattimore: Has Harp, Must Travel 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z We knew that these areas were about improvisation and exploration. Drummer says Jim Morrison never exposed himself 2010-12-03T02:36:00Z Thielemans, who turned 90 in April, was the first musician to create full-fledged jazz improvisations on the harmonica. Musician friends celebrate Thielemans' 90 years 2012-09-30T03:04:08Z In his enthusiasm, Mr Gioia’s analysis of improvisation sometimes veers into abstraction. Steps to heaven 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Throughout the album the improvisation shifts easily from one musician to the next, and the rhythmic brio in the group obviates the need for a percussionist. Playlist: New CDS From the Four Bags and Phantom Family Halo 2011-10-01T04:00:07Z So it’s quite a coup for Olney Theatre Center that Mason Alexander Park is taking a detour from their Hollywood ascent to grace the venue with velvety vocals, incisive improvisations and glam-rock radiance. Review | Mason Alexander Park brings star power to Olney’s ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Indeed, in his vast catalogue — including both his Beatles and solo work — there may be no better platform for gleaning his breathtaking vocal range and knack for improvisation than Ram. Paul and Linda McCartney's "Ram": Dramatic pop virtuosity that still shines brightly at 50 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Gradually, Joanna took shape, a woman more guarded than Bayer and more stunted, with her same love of snacks and her same gift for antic improvisation but none of her obvious success. In ‘I Love That for You,’ Vanessa Bayer Sells Out 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z And I wanted to ask you, do you think composition and improvisation are the same thing? Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z The production is slated to feature animation, live cello music, vocal improvisation and sound scapes by contemporary composer Hugh Livingston. Cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa in the spotlight, and a celebration of Kafka Cage was originally supposed to play Brad, but the filmmakers relegated him to a background role after his improvisations during the auditioning process were deemed too weird. 15 quick facts about "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z Tradition, improvisation, political expression — that’s the Sweet Honey tonic for what ails the world. At the Triple Door: Sweet Honey, sweet harmony | Concert review 2012-12-05T20:55:35Z Curated by a different musician every Sunday, the sessions are dedicated to exploring innovative original compositions and improvisation. Top 10 live music venues in Seattle 2013-05-24T23:10:00Z Many students were taken with the similarities to Chinese classical music, which also features much improvisation and less firepower. Going Baroque in China 2010-10-27T13:19:00Z The second half of the track includes one of your longest improvisations of the album, right? The Music of More: A Young Pianist Plays a Modern Master 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z In 1974, he issued “Guitar Solos,” the first in an influential series of records demonstrating his idiosyncratic approach to improvisation. Music Review: Fred Frith Brings a Week’s Worth of Variety to the Stone 2013-08-29T20:38:08Z And the golden age of improvisation flourished in Chicago, with Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Stephen Colbert and others developing their skills, before the Upright Citizens Brigade established an expanding empire on the coasts. Comedy Is Booming. I Can’t Wait for the Bust. 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z But in the moment it reminded me of another famous De Niro improvisation, way back in the 70s, on the set of Taxi Driver. Ageing bulls: have Robert De Niro’s roles inspired Donald Trump? 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Most people don't realize that improvisation and composition are different versions of the same thing. Musicians and cooks talk shop on "Treme" 2011-05-31T13:32:00Z Through its spontaneity, watercolour can also be a medium for imaginative improvisation, as seen here in the visionary illuminations of William Blake and the beatnik urban revelation of Edward Burra. This week's new exhibitions 2010-06-25T23:06:00Z Meadows went on to direct Considine in Dead Man’s Shoes, and the actor considers those early performances as little more than improvisations. Paddy Considine: ‘I was always portrayed as angry, but I was just ill’ 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z Ms. Kole explored the darker corners of George Michael’s “Faith” and Paul Simon’s “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover,” both of which received hot, spicy arrangements into which Ms. Kole wove tentative vocal improvisation. Music Review: Hilary Kole Sings at 54 Below 2012-08-17T22:21:02Z Glitching seemed to offer a portal into LJ’s musicality — her facility with improvisation and her attraction to found sounds — but I wasn’t sure if I was getting a better understanding of her synesthesia. You Know What London Looks Like. But Have You Really Heard It? 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Paul Merton is a Bafta award-winning presenter, writer, actor and comedian, known for his improvisation skills and deadpan humour. Top 10 tips for being a comedian 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z The work is actually three in one, interweaving a companion piece to “Actual Size,” a celebration of female strength titled “Threading In,” and structured improvisations. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z One obvious explanation might be British insularity as against Continental passions; Mr. Jacobs himself welcomes the influx of southern European and South American early-music performers, given their greater predilection for passion and improvisation. Ren? Jacobs?s Harmonia Mundi CDs and DVDs 2011-11-20T02:15:30Z Her long-form works fuse folklore with personal narrative, and put rigorous compositions together with fierce improvisation and, sometimes, open dialogue with the audience. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Rush has relied on practical improvisations, often in unglamorous circumstances, his entire life. Bobby Rush Lived the Blues. Six Decades On, He’s Still Playing Them. 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z When she took the same stage the following evening with her trio, it quickly became clear that they share an affinity for narrative improvisation. Portland Jazz fest wraps Friday-Sunday with Regina Carter and others 2011-02-24T21:50:14Z Adaptive Use Musical Instruments, an interactive computer program developed with her foundation’s support, enables individuals with severe physical impairments to participate in musical improvisation. The Composer Pauline Oliveros Stays Busy at 80 2012-08-11T22:02:08Z The score begins with what had been a long piano improvisation by Beethoven that he later wrote out. Mirga's majestic moments at the Bowl before her big one in Birmingham 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z His impassioned improvisation was pitch perfect for the generation watching him, most of whom saw it later in a documentary on the festival. Richie Havens, Guitarist and Singer, Dies at 72 2013-04-23T02:06:59Z Here, he offers a program of solo improvisations on piano and 1-bit electronics. Classical Music Listings for Nov. 27-Dec. 3 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z Wubbels fuses the contemplative, obsessive space of early American Minimalism and the vibrant complexity of the post-World War II European avant-garde; transitions clearly indebted to legacies of jazz-informed improvisation act as soldering material. A Musician’s Turn to Improvisation Bears Fruit 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z An untested Santa, one who happens to look and sound suspiciously like Uncle Andy, could ruin a kid’s Christmas and shatter their sense of trust if he’s not skilled in the art of improvisation. Santas are also in short supply this year, which leads to some intriguing alternatives 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z He’s reciting a script we all know well, and he’s not adept at improvisation. Best of 2018: What a dominatrix knows about #MeToo 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z And yet, by the time the cameras roll, there's no improvisation at all — the script is by then set in stone. 'Another Year,' another improvised Mike Leigh script 2011-01-21T00:28:50Z He is also known for extensive electronic improvisations that make use of oscillators, synthesizers, tape recorders and flashlights, among others. Review: In ‘Takehisa Kosugi: Music Expanded,’ Violinist Uses More Than Strings and a Bow 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z “Dissolution,” described in a program note as “a personal meditation on misunderstandings, interference and disruptions,” conveyed a sense of directed improvisation. Music Review: Pauline Oliveros and Olivia Block Find the Unconventional 2013-09-15T22:03:58Z The truth, however, is that my recipe can handle some improvisations. This genius shrimp and spaghetti is the perfect spring dinner 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z Though Kapustin had some early experience as an improviser in jazz ensembles, he didn’t make space for improvisation in his notated works. A Composer Shows the Way to Give Classical Music Swing 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z In some ways, Pulse is Julian Barnes's very English improvisation of that idea. Pulse by Julian Barnes ? review 2011-01-02T00:03:03Z The only real requirement is that you leave some of your songs open for reinterpretation on a nightly basis so that improvisation plays an important part in what you are doing. Gov't Mule embraces Pink Floyd, peace and protest: "We're in some pretty precarious times" 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z Director Jonathan Levine said the actors did a lot of improvisation on set and that the movie sought to touch on some real life matters in a funny way. 'Long Shot' pairs Charlize Theron, Seth Rogen in political romance 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z The best Indian music relies on improvisation and expertise, and this year's festival, now an established Easter fixture, provided both. Darbar festival 2010-04-07T21:00:00Z Of course, improvisation is embedded in the D.N.A. of “Saturday Night Live.” The Best Bit of Steve Carell’s Turn on “S.N.L.” This Week 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z And this unfashionable attitude is even more evident in free improvisation. Evan Parker's musical utopia 2010-04-22T21:35:00Z It was his talent as a 12-year-old wizard at improvisation, after all, that brought him to Mr. Burton’s attention when he was performing at a festival in the Soviet Union. Music: Kirill Gerstein Balances Classical Music and Jazz 2012-04-13T20:24:11Z Ms. Cowan said that in her piece, “Harlem Shake,” the audience should listen for a passage of saxophone improvisation and catch the way the melody repeats. Review: The Philharmonic’s Women Can Wear Pants in the Park 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z It’s a movement they identify with, unlike the mumblecore subgenre they were tossed into because of their projects’ heavy improvisation and emphasis on human intimacy. How the Duplass brothers have worked together for almost 40 years without killing each other 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z There are moments, in the tumble of a typical improvisation, when the saxophonist Chris Potter seems to be embarked on a hero’s journey. Music Review: Conversation for Four, With Homeric Accents 2011-02-10T00:15:10Z Playing with Mr. Sorey here, he often reduced Monk’s song themes to scaffolds and wisps; his own chiming, splintery swing feels attested to Monk’s long shadow, even in a context dominated by free improvisation. At 100, Thelonious Monk Gets a Hero’s Celebration 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z Standing on the concrete floor in semidarkness, he played one long, unbroken improvisation that defied the conventional limitations of the instrument, if not the laws of physics. With Peter Evans on Trumpet, Only the Shape Is Familiar 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z And then he finished off with structures for his improvisations: standards. Music Review: After Hints Of Genius, A Muse Is Expelled 2011-01-17T22:30:26Z What seems at first like pure improvisation resolves into structures assembled with the lightest touch. Review: This Sublime New Dance Work Embraces Wonder 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z This has been a good year, maybe a banner year, for those working at the intersection of traditional Cuban music and state-of-the-art improvisation. New Music: Releases From Velvet Underground, Eric Reed and Volcán 2013-12-16T23:33:13Z He studied drama and improvisation at the Steppenwolf Theater Company in Chicago and is well versed in Stephen Sondheim. Instead of Killer Punchlines, Killer Choruses 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z By constantly changing meter and tempo, and by building compositions with strange musical structures that tend to end abruptly, the Bad Plus gleefully deconstructs long-accepted rules of small-group improvisation. The Bad Plus could do better 2010-12-17T15:52:00Z Like a lot of introverts drawn to improvisation he creates a feeling of floating time, phrasing behind or around the beat. Music Review: Floating Along on the Rhythm While Staying Anchored to the Beat 2011-04-20T21:48:56Z And the album has proportionate doses of knockabout groove, scratchy free improvisation and chamber-esque restraint. Playlist: Straightening Out, Rapping and Leading a Band 2010-12-10T20:18:00Z The in-the-moment freshness was enhanced by the vivid spontaneity of actors who reportedly shaped their scenes through improvisation. Review: Adding the Women’s Side to the ‘Diner’ Menu 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z There was very little improvisation; instead, these tunes were played seven, eight, or even ten times, depending on the player’s level of interest or delight. The Joy of a Musical Session 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z Ms. Cowan, who was 10 at the time, said that her “Harlem Shake” was an exercise in layering, but with saxophone improvisations that nodded to the neighborhood’s past. Meet the 11-Year-Old Girls Whose Music Wowed the Philharmonic 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z For me, the 66-year-old saxophonist is the greatest living exponent of free improvisation. Evan Parker's musical utopia 2010-04-22T21:35:00Z Qawwali is a beloved Pakistani musical form characterized by complex vocalizations and improvisation. U.S. tries "hip hop" diplomacy in Pakistan 2011-11-14T19:42:45Z Part improvisation, part designed with earlier work woven in, Williams seamlessly merged old and new. Lustmord, Grouper explore noise and texture in deep Masonic Lodge set 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z Is it a brilliantly assembled suite of compositions for trio, or a loose, 30-minute improvisation? The Best Jazz of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z She was present, participating as an accordionist in two improvisations: a genial, sighing solo and a flickering duet with the violinist Jennifer Curtis. Review: International Contemporary Ensemble and Others Play in Brooklyn 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z Their show at the Public Theatre alternated between freewheeling improvisations and more conventional solo standup bits. Kate Berlant and John Early’s Escape from Comic Realism 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z With this group I’m almost certain there will be moments of creativity and improvisation that no one expects — not even us.” In Transit: In Paris, a Tribute to Davis Featuring Three Famed Alumni 2011-07-15T10:00:46Z The sheer range of music gathered under its umbrella — detailed compositions as well as top-to-bottom improvisations, in all manner of instrumental lineups — suggests a house policy of ecumenicalism. Music Review: A Kind of Orthodoxy Built on Improvisation 2011-06-09T22:53:47Z In the late ’70s, he began self-releasing a series of splenetic improvisations that suggested the blues broken into bits following a violent car crash. The Remarkable, Resilient Loren Connors 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z She casts a wide net: South Asian dance, improvisation, Irish step and drag are all represented in the festival. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z Hence the artist’s typically bland and clunky name for the show — “Unlights” — and his insistence that these works are “drawings,” a term meant to suggest a certain sense of improvisation and free play. Robert Irwin’s Ambient Odyssey 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Paris said her father encouraged her and did improvisation sessions to develop her skills. Jackson daughter tells 'Ellen' about acting dreams 2011-12-14T20:19:17Z There's more improvisation that goes on in the clubs. Jazz pianist Chick Corea celebrating at Blue Note 2011-11-04T21:19:07Z She has freedom, and on Broadway where highly structured improvisation is hardly the norm, that’s rare. Don’t Box Them In. Their Dancing Belongs to the World. 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z The Dance-a-Thon took place about one month into social distancing, as Instagram events were beginning to pivot away from improvisation toward more structure and, in some cases, corporate and philanthropic partnership. How Hip-Hop Royalty Found a New Home on Instagram Live 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z In what was either a brilliant improvisation or a surprise rewrite, she offered some unsolicited feedback: “Oh her? I dated her.” ‘The L Word’ Is Back With Sex, Glamour and a Wider Lens 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z Above all, the quartet, which appears at Subculture on Sunday, has a lived-in sound: There’s nothing provisional about it, even during a group improvisation like “Rest/Peace.” Review: John Raymond, Uncovering the Possibilities of the Familiar 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Mr. Koliada said that many Free Theater productions — especially Mr. Khalezin’s documentary works, which are rooted in recent and often personal histories — begin not with text but physical improvisation. Banned in Belarus, but the Shows Go On 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z “Broken Scherzo: Tripping Up, Falling Down,” the second movement, is even more jumpy and fragmented, with skittish bursts that suggest both jazzy improvisation and ethereal Messiaen. Review: Anthony Cheung’s ‘Elective Memory,’ a Response to Beethoven 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Musicians can learn improvisation only by doing, Mr. Murphy told the website All About Jazz in 2009. Mark Murphy, an Unconventional Jazz Vocalist, Dies at 83 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z And he made it impossible to guess exactly where improvisation met rehearsal. Review: Maxwell’s Sensual R&B Makes a Big Room Intimate 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Inevitably, perhaps, the quality of the music is variable – some of the pieces sound very much like written down improvisations – but it's never, ever dull, and its sheer imagination and energy are irrepressible. Stevenson: Piano Music – review 2013-01-24T12:33:33Z A newly posted video captures the restless spark of their improvisation, featuring Mr. Allen’s far-out bleeps and tones on EWI, a windblown synthesizer. The Playlist: David Bowie’s Unreleased Songs and a ‘Putin’ Satire 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z And on Thursday, she called the jazz singer Kurt Elling to the stage for an extended interlude of shared vocal improvisation. Review: Ann Hampton Callaway Hits Redial in ‘On My Way to You’ 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z Only on his own unaccompanied improvisations, typically wedged between tunes, did he pull the focus off Mr. Ross and Mr. Wilkins — who often took solos away from each other, wrangling in a friendly repartee. The Month in Live Jazz: 5 Standout Shows 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z The appeal of "A Prairie Home Companion" is improvisation. 'Prairie Home Companion' star sings with Seattle Symphony 2010-10-08T21:11:00Z Previously unreleased, the relentless 88-minute track “Autumn/Parade” catches the inexhaustible Cecil Taylor Unit in the grip of one revelation after another, playing free jazz, a style of improvisation, in the purest definition of free. An Exhilarating Set of Cecil Taylor’s Jazz Arrives, 49 Years Later 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z They are trapped in 50 years of improvisation, called life. Hilary Mantel on Taking Her ‘Wolf Hall’ Novels to the Stage 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z They watch a soloist in the center or an encounter that looks like an aestheticized scuffle, combining the weight-sharing of contact improvisation with more aggressive intent. Review: BalletBoyz Get Ready to Rumble 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z That, of course, meant a lot of improvisation. The Carpetbagger: Acting Tips from Mrs. Wolf of Wall Street (Hint: Get a Flask) 2013-12-31T16:30:27Z Hal is more reflective then he seems, but the keynote must be an air of improvisation. Nine Hours of Shakespeare 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z But, in that way, good improvisation has a structure. Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z The recital opened and closed with two works for cello and piano by jazz composers, “Tango Bittersweet” by Mr. Hersch, a pianist known for his improvisations, and “Spin” by Mr. Byron, the clarinetist. Music Review: Wendy Sutter and Olga Vinokur Perform at Bargemusic 2013-07-15T21:40:35Z Most of his documented improvisations come in the context of larger groups, from quartets to sextets, in which his solo time is brief and leaves listeners hungry for more. The Best Archival Jazz Releases of 2018 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z To hear Mr. Lawrence upshift through his improvisations, honoring a song’s rhythm and harmony and then breaking free of it, is one of jazz’s current thrills, and he understands this music as well as anyone. Revisiting 1964 Coltrane 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Caine’s dynamic improvisations created a witty conversation with the ensemble, a sometimes raucous dialogue that ebbed and flowed in unpredictable directions. ‘Blues Symphony’ by Wynton Marsalis Has Its New York Premiere 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z The trio performed a nearly hour-long improvisation whose wordless vocalese was accompanied primarily by violin and percussion, supplemented sparingly by keyboards and electronics. Review | Throat singer Tanya Tagaq is both earthy and ethereal in Kennedy Center performance 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z Another preoccupation, he said, is thinking of the vibes less as a solo instrument that recedes at the end of a spotlighted improvisation. Creating Uncommon Vibes 2011-07-22T20:52:11Z Freedom of improvisation within form itself was a reflection of their human condition. Wendell Pierce on the restorative power of art, his passion for New Orleans and his new book 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z The giddy momentum generated in the final movement felt less like written music than a gloriously extended improvisation. Northern Sinfonia/Dean – review 2013-05-12T13:55:17Z Free improvisation, strenuous and illuminated, plays a crucial role in that aesthetic, and so it did here. Memorial Service for David S. Ware, Jazz Saxophonist 2013-01-08T23:13:50Z It was Bunny, putting on his own unscripted line, a piece of inspired improvisation that made a perfect end to a sad little comedy.” Jean Alexander obituary 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Clips of Mr. Murray’s “Saturday Night Live” and film appearances highlighted his eccentric charm and knack for improvisation. Bill Murray Gets a Cubs Win and the Mark Twain Prize 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z With Tyrone Proctor, a pioneer of waacking who happened to be Burnett’s brother-in-law, he helped revive that style of flamboyant, air-slicing improvisation, developed in Los Angeles gay clubs in the 1970s. A Vogue Legend, Still Enlarging Circles of Pleasure 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z For more than 40 years, the musician also hosted a US radio show, giving listeners an insight into the elusive topic of jazz improvisation. Jazz pianist Marian McPartland dies 2013-08-22T10:30:31Z This kind of improvisation extends to digital content, too. What’s the Point of a Fashion Magazine Now? 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Almost on every album – “Wave” is an improvisation. Patti Smith’s most personal interview: “The things that make me feel strange – I’ve transformed them into work” 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z You never even talked about what happened previous to this action, you never did any research, any improvisation. 'Silly question!' Mike Leigh interviewed by our readers and famous fans 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z It was at Northwestern in the mid-1980s that Colbert switched from plans to study serious acting and instead joined an improvisation team. Colbert will speak at Northwestern commencement 2011-01-25T00:30:17Z In “SI 8 and SI 9,” Ms. Bruning created a structured improvisation for her dancers and musicians; it was undeveloped, especially when the dancers stood behind the musicians and used their arms like bows. Review: Diane Coburn Bruning and Ashley Bouder Stretch the Rules of Classicism at the Joyce 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z His improvisations on Wayne Shorter's "Footprints," Gershwin's "Embraceable You" and his own "Canteloupe Island" frankly felt a bit eager to please, with their "classical" flourishes, though his playing was clearly genuine. Herbie Hancock mixes it up at Benaroya Hall 2011-11-19T22:33:06Z Before and after her performance, a sound installation played of poets and artists discussing race, while a player piano ran through a preprogrammed set of Mr. Iyer’s improvisations. Wynton Marsalis Provokes Again With Head-Scratching ‘Ever Fonky Lowdown’ 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z The Caledonia Soul Orchestra included a string section and horns, playing fixed arrangements and rehearsed passages, but every song made room for improvisation. CD Reissues: Van Morrison, Sarah Vaughn and More 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z “She’d captivate a whole room of metalheads with nothing but the power of instrumental cello improvisation. She is quite magical.” Seattle cellist Lori Goldston, who played with Nirvana’s 1993-94 tour, brings her silent-film scores to Base 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z But it’s a pretty good handle for the aural environments Varner, 61, and diverse collaborators create this time of year for unorthodox improvisation. Wild sounds: Jazz improv and field recordings mix for ‘End of Summer Sound Vespers’ 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z She lets him know when he flubs the improvisation. Jim & Doreen: NBC4’s top-rated anchors are still leading the pack after 25 years The October Revolution in Jazz & Contemporary Music was something like a State of the Union for free improvisation and avant-garde composition, and also a statement of potential. A Revolution in Jazz? An Avant-Garde Festival Makes History, but Not Community 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z The performance takes its time, as Hawkins develops his improvisation alone over bass and drums, with gathering abstraction from the tune. Music: Coleman Hawkins Outplays Himself in Savory Collection 2010-08-17T22:17:00Z In addition, the performers offered an improvisation in each half of the program, drawing thread from the Baroque music at hand but venturing far beyond the period, even into modern modes of expression. Music Review: Repast Baroque Ensemble at the Baruch Performing Arts Center 2013-05-24T21:17:11Z “All improvisation, like an endless symphonic conversation,” he declared, rightly. Music Review: Milton Graves at Center of Vision Festival’s Opening Night 2013-06-13T21:03:09Z The patience and optimism in the pianist George Cables’s music, from his improvisation down to the spirit of his songwriting, looks like it has prevailed. Review: George Cables Trio at the Village Vanguard 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z While the Covid crisis has tested his capacity for improvisation, the Black Lives Matter movement has fueled Mr. Kordansky’s impatience for change. With Black Artists’ Input, One Gallery Is ‘Starting to Look Different’ 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z “Free improvisation was going to change the world,” he said of his generation’s 1960s dreams. The Composer Frederic Rzewski: In His Notes, Protest and Politics 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z “Of course there’s going to be some improvisation, but I’ve created something particular for this environment and for this day,” he said. In New York, a Kwanzaa Celebration With Savion Glover 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Its absence allows her a pleasing freedom of improvisation, but makes very hard the achievement of reflective depth or delicate judgment.” Pauline Kael and Her Legacy 2011-10-15T22:17:20Z In the improvisation, her right hand freely pushes and pulls against the time over funky left-hand chords. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Mary Lou Williams 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z His improvisations hold your attention thanks to careful, smart pacing, and Stephens’s willingness to sprinkle moments of simple beauty into his counterintuitive flights. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z Here was contemporary jazz improvisation built on a post-bop language and unencumbered by standard phrase structures. The fresh sound of guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel 2011-03-04T14:34:10Z Her melodies reach back to the hearty simplicity of folk songs; she uses the modes of Arabic classical music, but at times her improvisations also hint at raga, Japanese music and Tibetan overtone singing. Music Review: Ghalia Benali at French Institute Alliance Française 2013-05-16T21:42:33Z The fragile ballad Antique brought an improvisation of tender intensity from Julian Siegel on tenor sax. Mike Gibbs ? review 2011-02-17T17:07:40Z Next, the 15th Vision Festival, an event planned and run community-style, with minimum sponsorship and maximum input from musicians, by Patricia Parker; it’s built around the lineage of free improvisation and jazz’s nonmainstream. CareFusion, Vision, Undead and Other Jazz Fests 2010-06-10T22:15:00Z What started as dinner-party fun — Richard Rodgers waltzes at the piano, and some improvisation — became a formal program inspired by their mutual love for Gershwin and his contemporaries. For This Classical Piano Star, a Detour Is Business as Usual 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Ms. Sung’s playing maintains a temperate and subtle energy — nothing rhythmically loose or dynamically abrupt — whereas Mr. Green has a harder keyboard touch and teases your ear, drawling and dragging on his continuous single-note improvisations. Playlist : At Midcareer, Some Astonish, Some Explore 2011-04-29T18:39:43Z With child actress Olga Milshtein in the mix as the young daughter, while shooting "Jealousy" there were sometimes allowances for additional takes and for improvisations on the set. 'Jealousy' a Garrel family endeavor to create art from loss 2014-08-16T04:00:00Z It included a five-minute improvisation that Mr. Dank described as “very liberating” after playing 50 minutes of the printed score. Music Review: ‘Happy Birthday, Ursula!,’ a Tribute at Symphony Space 2014-03-11T22:07:11Z Solis, 35, trained as a pianist in Mexico but was drawn to electronic music and improvisation after he won scholarships to New York University and the Media Lab at MIT. 'Axial: Undersea volcano star of sound installation at UW 2011-12-09T19:33:04Z I thought about what he said later on that night, after my final calls, and about improvisation, live-ness and what it means to attempt theater without theater. There’s No Place Like Home (Theater) 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z He occasionally restates them with light improvisation, but rarely lets rip with full-on solos. London jazz festival 2012: Where has Jan Garbarek gone? I miss him 2012-11-14T17:21:38Z Like all the Duplass brothers' films, "Cyrus" is essentially a work of collective guided improvisation, so both Hill and the directors deserve full credit for the gradual revelation of Cyrus' character. The unlikely stardom of Jonah Hill 2010-06-16T16:55:00Z I loved working the way they worked, with improvisation and playing around, although there's very little improvisation in "Wet Hot American Summer." What makes Paul Rudd laugh 2010-07-30T00:29:00Z Instructions on the scores warn against sloppy improvisation: “Play slowly until you catch the swing, and never play ragtime fast at any time.” Art of Internment Camps Will Head to Auction 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z The pair ventures often into free improvisations: playfully dyspeptic, scattered, opaque. The Playlist: Drake Preps for a Return, and 12 More New Songs 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z Now 78, Mr. Cyrille has never lost his omnivorous musical appetite; his work ranges from free improvisations to smoldering small-group jazz to a collaboration with Haitian musicians. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z But that cosmic allusion is just a launchpad for improvisations that depict layered forms and patterns “in space and in the space of our bodies,” as Marchand’s statement puts it. Review | In the galleries: Autobiographical pieces prevail at the Trawick Prize 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z For each primary recipe, the former New York Times columnist provides variants to help inspire culinary improvisation. The cookbooks you need to raise your grilling and barbecue game 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z The collaboration by Vladislav Delay and Lillevan, a shared improvisation, was simultaneously lush and bleak, enveloping the room with ominous implications. 2010-02-06T05:36:00Z There was a lot of improvisation in the early days. The Last Resort? Canyon Ranch Succumbs to Botox 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z From the vantage point of Tedeschi Trucks, blues morphs into soul, soul shapeshifts into rock, and rock deconstructs into a dynamic form of jazz improvisation. The inspiring poetics of Tedeschi Trucks Band 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z While “Tea for Three” will make references to past dances, including Ms. Rainer’s seminal “Trio A,” improvisation will also be evident. Steve Paxton, a Buddha of American Dance 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z “Outlier II” involves an A.I.-generated melody that generalizes over time, gradually losing nuance before being disrupted by a series of chance-based improvisations. When Technology Makes Music More Accessible 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z Unlike many, this approach to free improvisation is not individualist or strident or perhaps even consciously avant-garde. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z By contrast, with African-American bands, “there’s a lot more improvisation, interactive and participatory call-and-response type of component.” There’s Halftime. Then There’s ‘Showtime.’ Welcome to the Battle of the Bands. 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z Feinberg said that it was important to the group, as novices at improvisation, to do its best to learn Ms. Lee’s particular approach. Orchestras Looking to Broaden Horizons? Start Improvising 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Moran’s improvisation was somewhat glitchy: a series of recycled motifs that then turned into unaccompanied solo, lovely and languid — then atonal and percussive. A night of ‘Jason+’ includes Mason Bates and jazz stars 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z When these improvisations "worked", the effect was that of the music being created by a separate consciousness or muse, with the six musicians bent to its will. The greatest ever album covers 2012-07-06T16:00:14Z Listeners bobbed to Thiruchelvam’s thumping electronics, interspersed with her improvisations on Carnatic flute and electric guitar, and cheered for Chandrasselan’s jerky choreography, her boots managing impressive friction against the pool’s wet ledge. For This Experimental Festival, Bring Your Swimsuit and Dancing Shoes 2023-03-22T04:00:00Z I stopped being interested in improvisation and I continue to not be that interested in it. Greta Gerwig on Frances Ha: “I Feel Like an Adult” 2013-05-02T21:23:51Z And yet in the years since that Bernstein debacle, the distinction between improvisation and composition has also come “under serious threat,” as the musician and scholar George Lewis has said. Orchestras Looking to Broaden Horizons? Start Improvising 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Hoggett set up improvisations in which dancers were told to imagine that they were blind creatures and that their only way to find a chair was to taste the room. This Angel in America Takes Wing With Help From 5 Shadows 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z When I got to New York City in the late-50s, and people were talking about collective improvisation,” he said, “I only knew how it related to Dixieland.” Roswell Rudd, in a Celebratory Mood, Reflects on His Winding Path 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Breuker wrote parts with specific members of the group in mind, clearing pockets of space for improvisation. Willem Breuker, Dutch Composer and Bandleader, Dies at 65 2010-07-29T06:19:00Z The two musicians hadn’t worked seriously together for over a decade when they recorded some duo improvisations a few years ago at , where Mr. Braxton enjoys a magisterial tenure. Playlist: New CDs From Bjork, Barry Harris and Dwele 2010-07-09T23:42:00Z Mr. Pérez, Mr. Patitucci and Mr. Blade have found a way to make improvisations that are loose and unfastened, even at high velocities, but retain a cohesive tension. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Bach, with his aura of improvisation, off-colored notes and dramatic abruptions, to steal the show. Stephen Hough twists the kaleidoscope of Edvard Grieg’s moods 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The group’s ethos of sprawling live improvisation instead of studio-culled hooks is as reliable as anything in the loose world of jazz-tinged jam bands. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for Jan. 1-7 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Here, he invites a trio led by the pianist Marcus Roberts to help with improvisations and the swinging American idiom. What Is American Music? Three Classical Albums Offer Answers. 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z So he's always been a performer… Actually, he "fell into" acting after following his younger sister Claudia to improvisation classes. Why we are watching… Nico Mirallegro 2013-06-16T07:00:03Z Often enough these men display their “renegade” natures by adding loopy improvisations: sneakers or Samuel L. Jackson frock coats or open-necked shirts. Formal-Wear Tips From Men?s Fashion Experts 2012-02-22T21:48:18Z The best pieces involved Azmeh, whose tone quality and improvisation skills were a step above, including on his composition “Wedding,” a cacophonous evocation of a Syrian village wedding. Crossover act signals change at Dumbarton Oaks 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z I loved the opportunity to do improvisation because that’s always been a strength of mine. Fran Drescher reveals the role she turned down out of principle: "Who am I if not my word?" 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Did the training in improvisation teach her to trust herself as an actress? Jackie Hoffman Kvetches Her Way to Royalty in ‘Once Upon a Mattress’ 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z The appearance of puttering and improvisation belies the film’s depth of insight and the defiant resilience of its director, whose not-a-film you might just watch again to see how it’s done. What to Know About Jafar Panahi, the Imprisoned Iranian Filmmaker 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z The long-standing traditions of improvisation, bebop, northern Indian vocal music, Renaissance choral music, Bach and French Impressionism are all now employed as part of his vast musical universe. For Minimalist music mastermind Terry Riley, a major birthday bash 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z It segued versions of the same song by different people; it knitted together Charlie Christian’s guitar solos from different takes of “Breakfast Feud” with the Benny Goodman Sextet into one long, five-chorus improvisation. Arts & Leisure Preview: Ultimate Box of Jazz? Not Exactly 2011-03-17T17:46:52Z Elsewhere he dashes into outlandish improvisations before even stating the melody. The Playlist: Ariana Grande Shows Her Heart, and 8 More New Songs 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z Most of the afternoon’s solos were built of prefabricated lines and licks, without much sense of melodic improvisation. Critic's Notebook: Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition 2011-09-13T06:51:04Z “The thing I know about our liberation practices is that there’s a high level of tactics, technique, improvisation, and a relationship to scale and movement,” she said. An Artist’s Gateway to Freedom and Possibility 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z There’s just a hint of 12-bar improvisation in the song’s guitar solo. Parquet Courts: ‘Sunbathing Animal’ has a punk sound with surprising influences But its spark plug is the tenor saxophonist Walter Smith III, even if the brusque intelligence of his improvisation often evokes Branford Marsalis. Playlist : For Longtime Artists, Dawning of a New Day 2011-07-17T01:30:27Z Black Magic Woman" and "Smooth," the show will also feature improvisation: "We play close to three hours, but we improvise a lot in the middle for the show. Ghosts play with Carlos Santana at White River 2011-08-18T23:47:10Z In one sense, this conversation with Bach was a little unbalanced: Bach’s inventions mostly last a minute or two, while Tepfer’s improvisations tend to be five minutes or longer. Bach Invented. Now a Pianist Is Trying to Match Him. 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z She comes up with movement through improvisation, working, as she said, from her “kitchen to the studio.” The Dance Delight in ‘Barbie’ Belongs to the Kens 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z Why bother in a genre where covers are accepted, even encouraged, particularly if you are bold enough to add something to the text through improvisation and innovation. 'Blurred Lines' verdict: In jazz, the vibe is everything 2015-03-13T04:00:00Z In a run-through of his landmark works, the band balanced freewheeling group improvisation against park-on-a-dime ensemble precision. Django Bates 50th Birthday 2010-10-06T20:59:00Z At one point Mr. Gray explains how, through improvisation, transcription and revision, his pieces arrived at their final shape and duration. | 'And Everything Is Going Fine': Visiting an Ordinarily Unique Artist 2010-12-09T23:30:00Z In the tradition of Christopher Guest, Mountlake Terrace High School student Nicholas Terry's mockumentary uses improvisation to depict a group of teens facing the biggest night of the year. Homegrown feature films screen in SIFF's Northwest Connections program 2010-05-12T23:44:00Z Malle did no such thing with Davis’s music, featuring eight of the trumpeter’s extended improvisations, which run on the soundtrack for two or three minutes at a stretch. Louis Malle’s “Elevator to the Gallows,” and Its Historic Miles Davis Soundtrack 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z Her improvisation on the ballad, “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered” was stunning. Ladies rule at Vancouver jazz fest | Concert review 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Some of the ensemble’s offerings were untitled improvisations. Music Review: Two Interpretations of New York, One Layered With Tart Observations 2011-08-11T21:59:53Z And written it is, despite its heavy reliance on improvisation. Television: ‘The Joe Schmo Show’ Returns to Spike 2013-01-06T04:22:04Z How to make it last was the subject of her improvisation with Mr. Elling, who has been married to the same woman for nearly 20 years. Review: Ann Hampton Callaway Hits Redial in ‘On My Way to You’ 2015-06-19T04:00:00Z But the open improvisations of the Abstract Expressionists also come to mind. A Less Anxious Edvard Munch 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Parker took the harmonic structures of popular songs, and of his own compositions, and complexified them, extending the range of improvisations into exotically chromatic realms. Ornette Coleman’s Revolution 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Omitting the two works not by Cage, especially the Improvisation by four old Cage hands, which seemed incongruous in a concert celebrating a composer who profoundly mistrusted improvisation, would have made a difference. Prom 47: Cage Night – review 2012-08-19T12:56:17Z Many collaborations operated along the principles of Morris’s concept of “conduction,” a method of live musical composition, a structured form of improvisation. A Utopian Space for Black Artists, Reimagined at MoMA 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z The show has retained an impression of seat-of-the-pants, frantic improvisation, such as one associates with local shoestring entertainments. Review: ‘39 Steps,’ Frenetic Thriller Spoof, Rises Again 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z To its many detractors, it amounts to little more than pretentious noodling, based as it is largely on improvisation. Steps to heaven 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z His “Mestizo II” is an ebullient infusion of free improvisation into the classical orchestra. Lifting the Cone of Silence From Black Composers 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z Thursday performance that featured a lively parade of character pieces, mostly loosely crafted monologues that leaned heavily on improvisation. Annoyance Theater Moves Brooklyn Into Comedy Theater Scene 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z Smiley's trilogy demonstrates repeatedly that most lives are a combination of improvisation and serendipity, good luck and bad. Jane Smiley's 'Golden Age' brings an epic tale to a solemnly fine end 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Another of the divers, Stuart Whatley, described how the project came together thanks to "good planning, good logistics, fantastic improvisation." Bristol marks 40th anniversary of SS Great Britain's return 2010-07-19T19:00:00Z Consisting of two 45-minute sets, interspersing compositional forms with open improvisation, the performance unfolds as a heroic dialogue, with a few detours into soliloquy. Playlist: Hard-Swinging Sounds, With the Help of Friends 2013-08-16T19:26:20Z And the piece as a whole has its own cumulative momentum, its music becoming denser and broader, coming to a period of wordless collective improvisation in the middle. New Music: Scotty McCreery, Lauren Alaina, Claudia Quintet - New Albums 2011-10-11T00:13:28Z The surrealist and often amusing tableau seemed random but didn’t incorporate improvisation, rarely part of Cage’s scores. Music Review: Juilliard School?s Focus! Festival Celebrates John Cage 2012-01-29T22:47:28Z Moran, 42, has led bands through precisely written scores and through loose improvisations, but this session was something else. This Kennedy Center director is making performance art out of jazz. Can he bring fans along? 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z Working with thorny dissonance but a gentle touch, he grounded the improvisation in an unsettled, wakeful vein. Music Review: Tyshawn Sorey’s Wu Wei Quintet at Greenwich House 2013-04-18T22:47:19Z Or maybe you’ll take heart in the fact that while a computer is producing the extra notes that accompany his piano playing here, it is also responding in real time to Tepfer’s improvisations. 15 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Leigh, a Brit, is a unique and fascinating filmmaker who creates his film's screenplays entirely through elaborate sessions of improvisations with his actors. Mike Leigh's latest picked up at Cannes 2010-05-19T23:01:00Z All of these movements produced different results — rubbings and harmonics and glissandos and single tones and rough noise — and the switching among them was as much a part of the improvisation as the sound. Review: The Cellist Okkyung Lee Tests Extended Technique’s Boundaries 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Like his early admirer Miles Davis, Jamal develops improvisations as integrated, composition-like pieces full of unexpected turns, rather than headlong torrents of notes. Ahmad Jamal: 'After a time you discover the Mozart in you' 2013-02-01T05:00:00Z The skits and improvisations of this two-hour show are largely fast and snappy, even if the outlines are fairly familiar. Second City puts sting in ‘Almost Accurate Guide to America’ 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z Although there is always real food on the table, she said that improvisation is occasionally necessary. On ‘Downton Abbey,’ Beware the Fish Mousse 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Talking about his public improvisations two years ago, Murray seemed to reference Gurdjieff. The greatest role of Bill Murray’s life has been playing Bill Murray 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z “The feeling of it still being alive, like an improvisation, is important in the piece.” At Trisha Brown, a New Voice Creates a ‘Symphony of Layers’ 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Songs typically started as improvisations built around a loop created by Mr. Brancowitz. Phoenix’s New Album Arrives in a Darker World, but the Beat Goes On 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z For the band’s last performance before quarantine, at Roulette in Brooklyn, Mr. Ross composed an extended piece using excerpts from improvisations he had recorded with the saxophonist Sergio Tabanico. How the Vibraphonist Joel Ross Keeps Finding Fresh Rhythms 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z Besides concerts, the festival offers workshops on improvisation, Korean traditional instruments, and ways of getting new sounds from orchestral instruments. ArtsBeat: Two New Music Festivals to Enliven New York Stages 2014-04-23T18:45:10Z It is characterized by rhyme, repetition, word play and improvisation. Amanda Gorman’s poetry shows why spoken word belongs in school 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z The taping of the Town Hall concert was another feat of improvisation. An Exhilarating Set of Cecil Taylor’s Jazz Arrives, 49 Years Later 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z It’s in that spirit of improvisation that Mr. Zorn, with his grounding in jazz, perceives a connection between his work and Martin’s that transcends their obvious differences. Can You Hear Agnes Martin’s Serenity in John Zorn’s Frenzied Music? 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Now one word or one gesture during the play can set off a memory of that improvisation, and it feels like new life running through you.” Putting the Juice in ?Jerusalem? 2011-04-07T19:58:14Z But the triggers here are transcribed from Whitehead's original solo improvisations recorded while viewing Turner's work – particularly the painter's fastest and most intuitive sketches and watercolours. Tim Whitehead: Colour Beginnings ? review 2010-12-02T22:40:00Z By building performances on relatively simple mathematical ideas, says the guitarist, he and the trio have been able to construct surprisingly complex improvisations. Switched-on guitar: Fareed Haque meets the Moog 2011-01-24T14:43:52Z In “Footholds,” the final premiere, Mr. Cemerek, a Czech choreographer, incorporates hip-hop and contact improvisation to create a scene of falling, rolling and curving bodies. Dance Review: Juilliard Dance at Peter Jay Sharp Theater 2012-12-14T23:58:27Z The film's scenes were shot in sequential order, so any changes to the story that evolved from improvisation could be accommodated. John C. Reilly talks about winging it in 'Cyrus' 2010-06-28T23:20:00Z “Colours” grew out of another kind of improvisation, she said. Listening to Devon Sproule 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z The roomy Interbay coffeehouse, with lovely acoustics and comfortable couches, buzzed with excitement as several acts delivered a vibrant showcase ranging from ambient synthesizer washes to jagged improvisations. Review: Impressive acts at launch of Seattle jazz label Table & Chairs 2011-03-14T23:57:03Z “It’s the liveness, the improvisation of working out ideas in community that make the work so exciting, and resonate with so many.” At His Moment of Triumph, Arthur Jafa Is Looking for Trouble 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Their style of collective improvisation has a different ecological inspiration: the flow of birds in migration. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Money in those days was not an issue, since no one in Bellamy’s crowd had any and survival depended on improvisation. Dick Bellamy: The Man Hiding at the Center of Everything 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z Fans would text ideas or descriptive words that were flashed on a screen, and the band would build improvisations in response, changing course each time a new word popped up. Umphrey's McGee lets fans conduct the band in concert 2012-04-19T17:23:00Z This is a case not of split personality but of improvisation. At Okonomi, Don’t Look for French Toast 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Sorey’s ability to devise lengthy, spontaneous improvisations with the tautness and logic of a composition was on display last month during a residency at the Stone, in the East Village. Is It Jazz? Improvisation? Tyshawn Sorey Is Obliterating the Lines 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z He worked painstakingly to recreate improvisations that were videotaped. Who Knows What This Means? 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z In his case, his luck began with an improvisation class taught by comic actor Harvey Lembeck. Al Molinaro, character actor on ‘Happy Days’ and ‘The Odd Couple,’ dies at 96 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z Cianfrance, whose background is in documentaries, shoots in real locations and encourages improvisation, pushing, the director says, toward "that place where acting stops and behavior begins." Gosling at ease in every role except movie star 2013-03-20T16:53:12Z One moment that suggested as much on Wednesday night, in an impressive opening set at the Jazz Gallery, landed near the homestretch, after about an hour of alert collective improvisation. Review: Eric Revis Trio Lets the Music Lead the Way at the Jazz Gallery 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Jazz musicians regularly play for tap dancers, but they’re uncommon in the world of modern dance and even rarer in ballet, partly because of a fear that musical improvisation might interfere with complex choreography. BalletNext and Abraham.In.Motion Experiment With Jazz 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z In his similarly unorthodox career, Mr. Goldstein has developed unusual techniques and worked extensively on improvisation. Review: Malcolm Goldstein Offers a Freespirited Salute to Ornette Coleman 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z His disquisitions on the intricacies of vocal embellishment and improvisation, some written while he was still in his 20s, can be found in scholarly journals and on the subscription service Grove Music Online. Music: Will Crutchfield, Preaching the Gospel of Bel Canto 2010-07-03T17:17:00Z The band was graceful in ballads, scrappy and intense in collective improvisations, deft with uneven phrases, smart about repertory. New Music: Albums From Rick Ross, Cassandra Wilson and Ralph Peterson 2012-06-25T22:30:29Z Too often, though, her work has the texture of transcription, not invention or improvisation. Rap’s Radical First Act 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z The Arabic and Sephardic pieces tended to be more intricately modal and to allow for more extended, virtuosic improvisation, which these players essayed with their characteristic energy and nuance. Music Review: Jordi Savall’s ‘Orient-Occident’ at Metropolitan Museum 2012-06-14T21:18:32Z The album’s distinguishing element of improvisation is left to the percussionist Obi Jenne. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-01-27T05:00:00Z Mr. Jaglom watched Pryor’s early experiments with improvisation and learned a lot about the difference between a white liberal’s racial politics and those of a black kid who didn’t come from a family of pacifists. ‘Becoming Richard Pryor,’ Scott Saul’s Biography 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z In his lifetime, before his untimely death from cancer in 1993, Zappa made countless albums of complex and highly satirical rock music that ranged from hippy era social commentary to political guitar improvisations. Tim Marlow on Gaugin 2010-10-16T05:45:00Z Powers at first was using a harmonium to provide the background drone to his trombone improvisations, before turning to Dempster for an alternative on the brass didjeridu. It's playtime for Seattle trombonist-didjeriduist Stuart Dempster 2010-08-11T23:04:00Z Improbable's Lifegame was magic at the Lyric on Thursday night, where actor Kerry Shale was the subject of this mix of biography and improvisation. What to see: Lyn Gardner's theatre tips 2010-07-09T16:38:00Z Unlike many Fringe plays, “The Dish” is never stalled by the improvisation. ‘The Dish’ at Capital Fringe Festival serves up a decent amount of satire During the many hours of painstaking transcription of these improvisations that followed, I frequently noticed this mutation of themes over one piece, and often even between improvs separated by days and weeks. How Turner's paintings inspired jazz composer Tim Whitehead's new record 2010-09-23T21:45:00Z British pianist Django Bates – with so much improvisation now pouring from him that his impetuous fluency is startling even his longest-serving fans – played a Vortex rammed to the doors. Django Bates 2010-04-14T20:45:00Z “Taking mutable logics and changing it into stable logics. Improvisation becomes composition. Composition becomes improvisation.” Anthony Braxton Composes Together Past, Present and Future 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Even when tumbling through an open-plan improvisation, the two don’t seem to be jockeying or sniping. The Playlist: Janelle Monáe Feels the Funk, and 13 More New Songs 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z It just takes a little bit of improvisation. The power of Purell compels you! 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z The climax directly involves the audience and demands a lot of improvisation, which makes “The Magic Play” a very live act. Review | Dramatic tricks abound in new ‘Magic Play’ 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z In 1997, by the time he came to shoot his first feature film, Twenty Four Seven, he was embracing improvisation, ad-libbing and maximum input from his cast. This Is England redux 2010-09-03T23:03:00Z “It speaks to me as an artist: the improvisation, the freedom,” Leguizamo said in an interview. Interactive Shadowboxes Breathe Life Into the Legacies of Village Artists 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z One improvisation saw Mr. Ozone, hands crossed, adding tufted offbeat accents to the robustly voiced melody. Music Review: Makoto Ozone Plays With the New York Philharmonic 2014-04-23T22:00:53Z “In playing his music, it’s that sense of clarity that informs our other improvisations.” An Allen Toussaint Tribute by New Orleans’s Modern-Day All-Stars 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z The album’s seventh and final track is a 26-minute free improvisation titled “Lift,” which Wilkins saw as an opportunity to set aside his own map and let spirit take over. On ‘The 7th Hand,’ Immanuel Wilkins Sees Jazz as an Escape Pod 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z It’s this sort of endeavor that gives improvisation a bad name. Review: Diane Coburn Bruning and Ashley Bouder Stretch the Rules of Classicism at the Joyce 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z The three artists share a long history of creation, a fondness for incorporating improvisation into their creative process and an interest in finding many ways to dissect and understand a spectrum of relationships. Dance Listings for Sept. 19-25 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Notes are to be played as they appear on the page, even though jazz is rooted in improvisation. “Whiplash” confirms what this drummer already knew: Jazz is full of arrogant, sadistic jerks 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z A degree of improvisation is allowed at specific times. For 24 Hours Onstage, Alia Shawkat Felt Great to Feel ‘Shameless’ 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z The art of improvisation laid down the foundation for us to stretch and create our own temporal conditions. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Ornette Coleman 2022-11-02T04:00:00Z In the mid-1960s, as jazz was absorbing the furious output of an emergent avant-garde, Mr. Breuker fell in with European musicians seeking to establish their own take on free improvisation. Willem Breuker, Dutch Composer and Bandleader, Dies at 65 2010-07-29T06:19:00Z On her third album, “Chamber Music Society,” she and her band combine improvisation and string trio arrangements with lilting vocals. | Esperanza Spalding: Rocking the Classics 2010-10-22T20:30:00Z “The improvisations were so brilliant, it muscled up to four hours,” she said. The Carpetbagger: Scenes Not Safe for Work, Even for the Film Editor 2013-12-09T17:42:29Z The complex, shifting interplay that characterized the latter part of the raga returned almost immediately in the second piece, a 35-minute improvisation. Zakir Hussain and Niladri Kumar: A master class in tabla and sitar 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z The “mini stir fry,” a seasonal improvisation, was made recently with fiddlehead ferns, pine nuts and tender, lime-green needles from the spring tips of spruce branches. Flavors Cross Borders at Little Tong Noodle Shop 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z He was eager to juxtapose the multileveled intricacy of his piano improvisations with quacking, wriggling synthesizer tones, hopping between profundity and comedy. Music Review: Herbie Hancock at Rose Theater 2012-03-11T22:05:23Z Ms. Monheit is also singing more softly than before, lending her improvisations a lighter, springier momentum. Music Review: A Plush Voice Discovers Some Room to Be Frisky 2010-10-22T21:27:00Z One of his greatest gifts as a performer is how well he seems to listen, a skill he says he learned early on in his career, in improvisation class. What “M*A*S*H” Taught Us 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z “His improvisation changed the landscape of jazz, and some of his most famous songs were ‘What a Wonderful World,’ ‘West End Blues’ and ‘Hello, Dolly!’ Inside a special Black History Month rite at ‘The Lion King’ 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z In it, they experiment with how bodies can let go of habits and familiar ways of moving — through both choreography and improvisation — to attain freedom and transformation. 5 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Todorowski doesn’t use the word “improvisation” to describe this process. Twyla Tharp, the Maximal Minimalist, and Her ‘Eight Jelly Rolls’ 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z "A lot of people have a natural antipathy towards" – he grits his teeth – "squeaky-door music, which is how people think of improvisation." About Group: Alexis Taylor swaps Hot Chip for jazz improv 2011-03-31T21:29:00Z Then it becomes a piano improvisation, full of sly timing, feints and weaves. Frank Harrison: Sideways ?review 2012-02-09T22:31:01Z He took classical acting, modern acting, improvisation, technical theater and script analysis. The education of Dave Chappelle: How a D.C. arts school prepared him for stardom 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z It begins with what was originally a piano improvisation in which Beethoven seems to be getting his compositional juices flowing. Dudamel, L.A. Phil scale down amid Andsnes' elegant Beethoven 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z He didn't invent jazz, but he fully embodied and popularized its introduction of individual expression and improvisation rooted in African American culture. Dr. John infuses Louis Armstrong tribute album with 'Spirit of Satch' 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z In her teaching at Berkeley, Melford introduces improvisation and complex music to students, telling them it’s OK not to like it, but asking that they at least truly listen. Myra Melford Builds Anew With an All-Star, All-Woman Quintet 2022-11-06T04:00:00Z His work can take the form of marathon solo-saxophone improvisations or full-dress orchestral pieces, with a spirit of determined inquiry as the running thread. The Week Ahead: Feb.13 ? 19 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z Chetwynd's carnivalesque performances and sculptural installations are said to create an "atmosphere of joyful improvisation" in the notes describing the installation. Films and funny puppets vie for Turner art prize 2012-10-01T22:10:14Z He was alluding to Bunch's rhythmic ease and fluency, the sense that his jazz improvisations were always nimble and elegantly formed. John Bunch obituary 2010-05-03T19:59:00Z The impeccable timing, musical knowledge and vocal dexterity employed in this seven-plus-minute vocal improvisation exemplifies musical genius. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Vocals 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z The Necks Every performance by Australia's cult improv trio the Necks is different – though you can be sure that each will be a seamless episode of free improvisation. What to see in summer 2010 2010-05-23T20:30:00Z Gioia is at his best in explaining how jazz improvisation is anything but a random collection of sounds. Listen up: ‘How to Listen to Jazz’ 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z A selection of improvisations showed Mr. Kosugi, often joined by his collaborators, exploring the whines, crackles and hisses created by different electronic devices, including wireless oscillators and receivers. Review: In ‘Takehisa Kosugi: Music Expanded,’ Violinist Uses More Than Strings and a Bow 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Satpathy describes the score, which is recorded, as an aural map that leads her from one idea to the next, while leaving space for improvisation. An Odissi Dancer Charts New Paths in ‘the Land of Discovery’ 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z Her financial improvisation was stupid, and implausible from both characterizaation and plot standpoints. Walter White has to laugh, otherwise he'd cry 2011-09-26T07:27:00Z Coleman continues to explore improvisation through his long-running ensemble Five Elements, a group whose sound reflects a focus on constant movement and rather than familiar repeated melodies. Saxophonist Steve Coleman honored with MacArthur "genius grant" 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z She promised that the rules of improvisation would “change your life and reduce belly fat,” before admitting that the part about belly fat wasn’t true. In the World of Comedy, Improv May Now Be More Important Than Stand-Up 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Comedy was supplied by a Paul Merton improvisation event. Jeremy Hunt's inoffensive festival 2010-08-31T21:40:00Z “They would make the most wonderful improvisations that seemed to have a beginning and a middle and an end. They seemed to have complete forms.” Celebrating the Works of Irving Fine, Born 100 Years Ago 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z A pensive, darting piano improvisation near the end of the song is a whiff of possibility amid the constraints. Beyoncé’s Anthem for the Unique, and 10 More New Songs 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Even if the change in Hughes’s birth year came from his mother, “such reinvention does connect with other kinds of black improvisation,” Mr. Young said. Langston Hughes Just Got a Year Older 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z But the two are, in fact, bound by similar DNA — the spirit of improvisation, Hubbard Street artistic director Glenn Edgerton says. 'The Art of Falling' stage is big enough for Second City improv and Hubbard Street dance 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Their intent improvisations had Ms. Courvoisier plucking inside the piano when she wasn’t riffling impressionistic chords and ostinatos against the whistles, clanks, rustles and crackles from Ms. Ibarra and Ms. Mori. Music Review: Allies in Improvisation and in a Cause 2011-03-28T23:31:42Z The young tenor saxophonist Aaron Burnett, originally from Chicago, can play a ballad standard with feeling, and then head into an improvisation with wide intervals and split-tone effects. | Pop: New Variations on Standard Jazz 2014-02-28T23:22:37Z “I saw people doing full-on contact improvisation with no permission or giving or asking,” she says. A choreographer works to bring dance to the disabled 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z The “Frankenstein Suite” was an early success, but Mr. Gruber was uncomfortable with the amount of improvisation it allowed. Philharmonic to Present H. K. Gruber?s ?Frankenstein!!? 2011-12-04T04:23:05Z Growing up on the South Side of Chicago, Mr. Coleman gravitated to the music of Charlie Parker, another alto saxophonist with a highly specific language of improvisation. Steve Coleman, a Jazz Outlier, Rides a Wave of Acclaim 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z Whereas, going to the feminist bookstore and shooting our three sketches in a single day allowed for flexibility in performance and allowed more time for improvisation. Quirky sketches, goofy humor and sharp social commentary — ‘Portlandia’ is back 2014-02-19T20:20:55Z I always try to link all these things together, because this thing to me is an ongoing process: the study of composition and improvisation in parallel. A Pioneering Black Composer Keeps Pushing 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z It was all about edgy, hard-hitting groove, and the improvisations tended to be collective ones. Review | Michael Bowie gets funky at Blues Alley 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z So it was a mercy that the next and final performance was his: a solo improvisation played at his home, as part of a short film by Amine Kouider. Memorial Service for David S. Ware, Jazz Saxophonist 2013-01-08T23:13:50Z It was very collaborative and a lot of improvisation on set. “As long as humans are around, there will be d*ck jokes”: Adam Scott on the enduring appeal of “Hot Tub Time Machine 2″ 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z Part of her program was given to experimental iconoclasm, by way of improvisations on other composers’ works. Music Review: Du Yun at the 21st Century Schizoid Music Concerts 2010-06-29T20:58:00Z In his own improvisations he likes to limit his hand movements as a way of structuring the music. Xenakis: So what does a wiggly line sound like? 2010-06-03T22:00:00Z But they still left "blank spots" at the beginning and end of each song performance to allow for improvisation. Black Eyed Peas' E.N.D. tour has staying power 2010-07-24T03:50:00Z And in this new recording, of works and improvisations spanning years yet gaining the cohesion of a cyclic suite, she seems to be asking “What is reality?” 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z So one thing I’m going to do onboard is keyboard improvisations to go along with the text of those books. Chick Corea’s 75th Birthday Celebration Will Make Music for Months 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z A very poor advertisement for improvisation, which a lot of it is. TV review: Into Orbit: A Culture Show Special; Secrets of Our Living Planet; True Love 2012-06-17T22:00:01Z She is among the very few classical musicians who have embraced improvisation. Pianist Gabriela Montero combines classical improv with a spicy Latin beat 2011-02-05T15:53:00Z Displayed atop two big, white adjoined cubes, a baker’s dozen of her finely made, eccentrically ornamental improvisations on the vase archetype delights the eye and the mind. Art Review: The Uncluttered Look Has Its Day 2011-03-03T23:30:06Z It was created using the method Shelton began devising with "My Effortless Brilliance": an actor-centered way of crafting a screenplay primarily through improvisation. Lynn Shelton: 'I never imagined I could be a filmmaker' 2012-05-12T22:34:37Z Ever-present throughout “How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America” is the blues ethos of stating and confronting the brutal facts of life and of placing a high premium on style, improvisation and excellence. Kiese Laymon Revisits Some Early Essays, and Reclaims His Voice 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z The playfulness of the loose theatrical improvisations exposes a burning core of mystical energy. A Lost Masterwork Is Found: Thomas White's “Who's Crazy?” 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z And soon the Second City comedy club - famed for its satire and improvisation - will use this fodder, as it turns its wit on the city itself. Famed comedy club seeking laughs in Chicago's past 2011-11-05T14:53:08Z If the first show was a happening, juiced up by improvisation, this was a performance. Subway Performances Can Be a Wonder of Grit and Grace 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z “But it doesn’t really allow the audience to see the thoughts and the planning and the groundwork that it takes to even get an improvisation mobilized.” Sally Silvers?s ?Prize Every Time? at Roulette in Brooklyn 2011-10-09T04:00:16Z To pull off these unique sets of songs threaded together through improvisation requires an exquisite interconnectedness among the band members, one that engenders both synchroneity and freedom. Communing with the Dead: I followed the Grateful Dead to escape and ended up finding home 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Like Sanchez's drumming, improvisation was the key to putting the soundtrack together, especially in those early phases. Antonio Sanchez's soaring beat takes flight in 'Birdman' 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z “You are freer there, so to speak,” he reminded the harpist where the score mandated improvisation. 2010-01-08T21:25:00Z There are pieces that suggest oblique funk or hijacked show music, pieces that evoke art song or chamber-group improvisation. Playlist: Whether Jazz, Rock Or War Anthems, A Vintage Harvest 2010-09-25T21:04:00Z Mr. Mekurya performed with the Ex, but he earned one of the evening’s loudest cheers with a vaulting unaccompanied improvisation. Getatchew Mekurya, Ethiopian Jazz Saxophonist, Dies at 81 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z We'll use bits of his voice, some samples from interviews; I'll be sampling some of his records, in situ, and using that as a backdrop for further improvisation. Holding out for a hero: Soweto Kinch on Joe Harriott 2011-07-21T21:30:01Z On May 28, the choreographer Kyle Marshall posted a dance improvisation dedicated to recent victims of police brutality. Five Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Unruly, unrelenting and unsentimental, Mr. McKay’s movies sometimes seem not written at all, but shot in real time over 90 minutes of hit-or-miss improvisation. Film: Adam McKay Directs Cops Under Arrested Adolescence 2010-08-01T01:53:00Z And they are carefully plotted; improvisation steals in during repetitive stretches, but the superstructures are unmovable. New Music From Real Estate, My Brightest Diamond, Harold O?Neal 2011-10-17T22:37:44Z Nowhere is improvisation more on display than in Memphis. They fed the civil rights movement. Now are black-owned barbecue joints dying? 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Their performance represents, they note, “improvisations” on the work. What Is American Music? Three Classical Albums Offer Answers. 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z This was where the band found its way toward its best stuff, enfolded improvisations and shifting densities, and where it kept applying pressure on the music, filling it with tension and drama. Allman Brothers Band, at Beacon Theater, Plays Final Concert 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z Since the late 1970s, Negativland has worked more as a collective with fluctuating membership, using improvisation and scavenged audio detritus as raw materials. Richard Lyons, a Founder of the Subversive Band Negativland, Dies at 57 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z If you're going to be doing a long improvisation, it's boring to sit on one scale and just go up and down. Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z In some cases, including on the individual parts for “Out to Lunch!,” he wrote out the unusual scales beneath the composition, as a possible basis for improvisation. A New Focus on Eric Dolphy, in Washington and Montclair 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Present-day France may be alive with protests, but this was a dance performed by trained dancers somewhat proficient in improvisation. Review: Rebel Yells and Chants of ‘Adieu!’ From Ballet de Lorraine 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z She would be appearing on stage as a guest monologuist for the improvisation company Upright Citizens Brigade. Even the Teen Vogue Writer Who Took on Trump Gets Stage Fright 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z In his solo concerts since the 1970s, Mr. Jarrett has committed himself to spontaneous improvisation, to ideas that surface in the moment. Music Review: After Hints Of Genius, A Muse Is Expelled 2011-01-17T22:30:26Z Ms. Jeanrenaud studied both improvisation and composition at Indiana, and her own music has evolved from the first to the second. A Daughter of Kronos Revisits Quartet?s Fold 2012-02-24T20:17:42Z Wu’s vigorous, expressionistic improvisations often elided passages of figuration, especially of landscape. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z Ms. Bauer’s choreography draws heavily on Steve Paxton’s practice of contact improvisation, in which dancers respond to and anticipate each other’s motions. A Lighter Matthew Barney Goes Back to School, and Back Home 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z The group complicates the harmonies and fills the interstices of the songs with improvisation, often with Mr. McCaslin’s saxophone chasing Mr. Bowie’s voice. Review: ‘Blackstar,’ David Bowie’s Emotive and Cryptic New Album 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z Like a spiritual epiphany, this explosion of improvisation embodies the innate humanity of the music and foreshadows the brilliance of bebop yet to come. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love New Orleans Jazz 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z He kept it fresh by finding new ways to play the song, new arrangements and more substantial improvisations. In the year jazz went avant-garde, Ramsey Lewis went pop with a bang 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z The lack of novelty, despite the perpetual surprise of improvisation, was what drove the act, and the friends, apart: A Lovingly Obsessive Tribute to Mike Nichols, by Elaine May 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z The focus on the film careers of “Saturday Night Live” stars raises a broader question: What is improvisation anyway? In the World of Comedy, Improv May Now Be More Important Than Stand-Up 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z A recent performance at the Stone in Manhattan showed off the hallmarks of this music, built on the maqam scales of Arabic music, with jazzy flights of improvisation and fleeting echoes of early Baroque ornamentation. A Violinist Questions the Musical Divide Between West and East 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Be supportive and follow the “yes, and” rule of improvisation to foster a collaborative mindset, suggests Chad. When Collaborating Actually Makes Sense (and When It Doesn’t) 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z “When I think of the cultural characteristics of the Northeast in general and Maine in particular,” he said of the sentiment that guided him, “improvisation is what comes to mind.” Choice Tables: Portland, Me.: Locavore in Menu and Décor 2013-08-29T19:13:32Z Mr. Bley, a pioneer of free improvisation on the piano, encouraged her to compose tunes for him. Carla Bley, Still Improvising and Inspiring as She Turns 80 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Velez-Jackson, a choreographer and interdisciplinary artist with a strong base in improvisation, said that much of her work got its start at Aunts events. Aunts Is Back, Turning City Blocks Into Dance Floors 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z He built complex arguments about how these forms were vastly more than untutored improvisation, and about how music allowed black people to tell their story in ways that literature often could not. The Top Books of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z The concert will be structured as subsets of solo improvisations and various formations of the artists bookended by sessions featuring the entire group. SOUNDbox kicks off this month, offering a platform to Seattle’s vibrant new-music scene 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Combined with his elaborate ornamentation and improvisations, his developments resulted in a greater richness of sound, texture and polyphony. Ostad Elahi, a Tanbur Master, Is Celebrated at Met Museum 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Evans laid out for a long stretch of Allen’s solo, then returned for his own improvisation: a set of joyful variations that channeled the Carter Family’s 1928 recording of the song. Pianist Orrin Evans and quartet shine at Bohemian Caverns As Mr. Mittal prepared his students to go back into the traditionally notated Composition No. 55, he encouraged them to transition into the piece after another go at Mr. Braxton’s improvisation language. High School Musicians Take on the (Almost) Unplayable 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z We went to Ricky’s old office and got some actor friends of mine to do some improvisations and cobbled this thing together, and his performance was off the charts.” Stephen Merchant Moves From Gervais?s Shadow to Stand-Up 2011-12-14T17:41:07Z A sherpa and a shepherd from the Pyrenees will both describe a deep spiritual connection to the land and similar personality traits: insularity, self-reliance, a gift for improvisation, a suspicion of outsiders. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Judith Matloff on Why Mountains Attract War 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z That agile kind of playing debunks the idea of improvisation as some serendipitous expression drawn from thin air. Perspective | The coronavirus is devastating a uniquely American art form 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z He went into the studio with two drummer friends to record a lengthy improvisation, then picked apart and edited that recording, and had two keyboardists subsequently lay their own improvisations over it. Lana Del Rey’s Sisterly Solidarity, and 10 More New Songs 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z Like “Femenine” and other works, it invites interpretive choices and improvisation; and by now, this group expertly responds to such calls. Now Celebrated, Julius Eastman’s Music Points to a New Canon 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z It was hardly a natural match: The dancers, whose skill level fluctuates wildly, showed strain and uncertainty in their doodling improvisations. Dance Review: Brooklyn Ballet’s Spring Show, With a Little Christmas Added 2014-04-11T22:41:21Z Instead, each sound responds to what was there before — making Priester’s improvisation so melodic you could believe it was composed. Seattle’s Julian Priester helped create jazz as we know it. Now, he’s focusing on teaching the art of listening 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Drama fans can see Galli Theater perform “The Frog Prince” at 5 p.m. and participate in an improvisation and theater game workshop with actors from Classical Theater of Harlem. Events for Children in NYC This Week 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z For American Beauty – her most lauded role – she praises screenwriter Alan Ball’s “knife edge” writing over her own improvisation. Annette Bening: ‘Women don’t have to do everything’ 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z He also admires Apatow’s openness to improvisation by his actors, a freedom to play that Crawford tried to cultivate among the cast of “The Last Wish.” What ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’ Owes to Samurai and Sergio Leone 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z There is no script, just a story outline, character development and improvisation around it – a way of working that reminds me more of devised theatre work than television filming. Dominic Savage's love letter to Margate 2012-06-05T18:00:02Z Even with snippets of notated material, Wubbels’s improvisations with Lee are all unique. A Musician’s Turn to Improvisation Bears Fruit 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Mr. Gates has made a specialty out of vocalese, the jazz practice of setting original lyrics to a musician’s improvisations. 2010-01-08T03:51:00Z All the while, he pursued his passion for jazz saxophone and improvisation. Review: As Goes Music, So Goes the Universe 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z The "dream role" took nearly a year to land and Novak can't help but gush about "the amazing cast" he worked with, and the "incredible script" that meant there was hardly any improvisation during filming. Prankster's paradise: Fonejacker hits the streets 2010-04-09T23:11:00Z The Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, a troupe that specializes in sketch comedy and improvisation, is planning to present “Blank! The Musical,” a new immersive work that will be composed afresh nightly, with the audience’s help. Upright Citizens Brigade Will Invite the Audience to Help Write 'Blank! The Musical' 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z But he’s less interested in illustrating this point than tracing the careers of stars with a connection to improvisation. In the World of Comedy, Improv May Now Be More Important Than Stand-Up 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z From another part of the spectrum, Common captured the crowd Sunday with a smart concept show titled “Black America Again,” which illuminated the continuity between jazz improvisation and rapid-fire freestyling. Seattle-area musicians on hand as Monterey Jazz Festival marks 60th year 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z Instead he plays a song, a warped electronic blues improvisation. Atlas Sound – review 2012-07-23T14:44:51Z In an interview, he said his collaborations with the artist were based on improvisation. Christian Marclay Sees in Sound in a Show at White Cube in London 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z This opened space for improvisation, and for Barney to introduce sculptural props that the players negotiate. Matthew Barney, Back in the Game 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z “The goal is to let both the aural and visual mediums influence each other as much as possible, which brings an element of improvisation to our performance,” he said by email. There's Madonna, Marsalis, Colbert and more: Why everyone is jookin with Lil Buck 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z After detours into riotous improvisation, the performance eventually hurtles into a bumptious, tuba-driven conclusion. ‘Mastery and Transgression’ in Music That Bridges Genres 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z By the time he recorded “Gnu High,” Mr. Wheeler had been working for several years with Mr. Braxton and was best known in jazz circles as an exponent of free improvisation. Kenny Wheeler, Influential Sound in Jazz, Dies at 84 2014-09-21T04:00:00Z Ms. Witkowski will infuse a selection of Chopin’s nocturnes and preludes with improvisations inspired by jazz and Brazilian rhythms. Spare Times for Dec. 5-Dec. 11 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z “His now legendary art of improvisation was like walking a tightrope with the ever-present risk of falling,” the orchestra said in a statement after his death. Georges Prêtre, French Conductor Known for Interpretation, Dies at 92 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Eastman’s contribution was to expand hardcore process-oriented Minimalism, finding ways to fit in expressive dissonances, improvisation and elements of African American music, including its spirituality. The resurrection of Julius Eastman: gay, black and brilliant 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z Mr. Abercrombie played with a handful of rising musicians inhabiting the divide between avant-garde improvisation, jazz tradition and hard rock. John Abercrombie, Lyrical Jazz Guitarist, Dies at 72 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z These pieces share an unspoken emphasis on swinging rhythm and sly harmonic irresolution, as if to recall the earliest blush of free improvisation in the early 1960s. New Music: Kid Rock’s ‘Rebel Soul,’ and Alicia Keys’s ‘Girl on Fire’ 2012-11-26T23:07:45Z There was a lot of improvisation, and I could sing a line, and then it's so exciting when you sing a line and then the trumpet plays the line . Natalie Merchant on overcoming pain, roadblocks to produce the "best-sounding record I've ever made" 2023-04-16T04:00:00Z No doubt her trademark improvisations will close the evening — a sweet meringue. What our writers love this week 2010-11-14T05:01:00Z Pryor’s improvisations heighten the movie’s dialectic of oppressive reality and imaginary escape. In Paul Schrader’s ‘Blue Collar,’ the Factory Floor Is Brutal 2021-07-08T04:00:00Z He was also surrounded by a sonic culture built on fusion, education and black styles — a scene that prized combining genres, improvisation and creating new sounds. How Minneapolis made Prince 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z The pile, usually referred to as a cairn, seems to have begun as an improvisation. Lessons in Constructive Solitude From Thoreau 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z During a recent rehearsal, Bond often left space for future improvisation. A Cabaret Star and an Opera Star Walk Onto a Stage … 2021-09-19T04:00:00Z It’s a departure from the rhetoric that typically surrounds any mingling of jazz and state, a story of democracy, improvisation and American exceptionalism. Global Flavors and Asides to Obamas at White House Jazz Gala 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z He was open to my improvisation and ideas and we were more collaborating and creating something in terms of what I could bring to it as well. How Matt McGorry falls in love: “When I do, I’m all in” 2016-07-08T04:00:00Z The big group parts are basically all structured improvisations, which is quite different and terrifying for me. Her Longtime Dancer Died. Instead of Moving On, She Embraced Loss. 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z What freedom did you have to insert your personality and those improvisations into Joel? Why we all love "Somebody Somewhere" star Jeff Hiller: "Everybody feels like they're the outsider" 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z But from 1971, when a period of intense introspection provoked by the Vietnam War resulted in “Sonic Meditations,” Ms. Oliveros has moved decisively into ritualistic improvisation and communal experiences that can involve nonspecialist participants. The Composer Pauline Oliveros Stays Busy at 80 2012-08-11T22:02:08Z “I learned about all kinds of things,” he said, “orchestration, form, improvisation, timbre.” Critic?s Notebook: Four Young Pianists on the Rise in the Jazz Scene 2011-10-06T22:37:04Z “Green Kalahari” is the name of the piece, a two-and-a-half-minute improvisation. 2010-02-15T01:32:00Z Ms. Rosenthal’s work melded dance, theater, dramatic monologues, improvisation and visual art to illuminate her abiding concerns: feminism, environmentalism and animal rights. Rachel Rosenthal, Bold Performance Artist, Dies at 88 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z There, a group of choreographers rejected the theatrical conventions of modern dance and ballet, proposing that pedestrian movements and improvisation were equally valid forms of performance. 7 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z Ms. Lee was born in Korea, studied composition and improvisation at music schools in Boston, and moved to New York in 2000, eventually playing with all kinds of improvisers, musical or otherwise. Review: The Cellist Okkyung Lee Tests Extended Technique’s Boundaries 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z "For all its sense of freedom and improvisation and joy, the actual craft you need to be a high-end jazz musician requires a really high level of technique," Chazelle says. Jazz films explore the hell and joy of musical perfection 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z But they did share one heady dance experience: before Ms. Lacey moved to Paris in 2000, they took part in an improvisation in the East Village. Wally Cardona and Jennifer Lacey?s ?Tool Is Loot? 2011-09-21T22:23:13Z Through her, he said, “I got to think of improvisation as a mode of social interaction, which really changed everything about my music-making.” Conrad Tao Was Never Just Another Prodigy 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Among the “64 arts” a woman should master are “improvisation of poetry; knowledge of dictionaries; knowledge of prosody” and “reciting difficult verses.” Books of The Times: The Kama Sutra, Newly Translated 2012-01-31T17:03:33Z She tells me both projects relied heavily on improvisation and she was drawn to the idea of having so much input. Why Emily Blunt can't believe her luck 2012-06-16T21:31:04Z In 1938 he was hired to help write and appear in the union’s musical show “Pins and Needles,” and he soon began to develop his signature comedy style of zany improvisation. Irwin Corey, Comedian and ‘Foremost Authority,’ Dies at 102 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Finally, the jazz pianist Dan Tepfer brings the version he recorded, which intersperses the familiar variations with his own improvisations, bracing, startling, like sea air in the face. A celebration of ‘theme and variations’ 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z But with that third movement specifically, it’s the only one where he indicates there’s an optional improvisation on the theme. The Music of More: A Young Pianist Plays a Modern Master 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z "Groovy, funky and the undisputed master of improvisation, Prince's performances are all unique and unpredictable," it said of the 54-year-old viewed as a pioneer of online music distribution and maverick in the business. Prince to headline Montreux jazz with three pricey concerts 2013-02-14T17:58:01Z Through its layered structure and complexities, its finely meshed improvisations and its lush beauty, it ended up a revolutionary, influential and enormously popular record. ‘Walking With ’Trane’: A dance ode to the art of John Coltrane 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z Like Roy Hargrove, Cassandra Wilson or Jason Moran a couple of decades earlier, Mr. Ross is an upstart reasserting how scholarly group improvisation, rooted in spiritual intent, might feel fresh — even provocative. How the Vibraphonist Joel Ross Keeps Finding Fresh Rhythms 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z It is arranged in largely contrapuntal exchanges between extremes: spare and labor-intensive; little or no color and lots of it; improvisation and deliberation; and riffs on Minimalism and reconsiderations of Expressionism, both abstract and figurative. ‘The Forever Now,’ a Survey of Contemporary Painting at MoMA 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z And while there, he began to deepen his engagement with improvisation. A Musician’s Turn to Improvisation Bears Fruit 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Do you prefer to work by improvisation that way, rather than with a strict script? Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams: Cannes' hottest couple 2010-05-21T15:40:00Z Hahn last appeared here in June 2012 at an unlikely venue: the Neptune Theatre, on a tour with German pianist Hauschka that emphasized improvisation and experimentation. Superstar violinist Hilary Hahn returns to Seattle April 25, 27 2013-04-17T21:16:57Z Because Brown and her dancers developed the movement through improvisation before setting it, Candoco’s approach to “Set and Reset” honors the spirit of the original work more than a traditional staging would. A Trisha Brown Masterpiece, ‘Reset’ on an Inclusive Troupe 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z You have to be on point with this kind of improvisation. Actors of ‘The Big Short’ Talk About the Debt Crisis, in Beverly Hills 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z The dialogue is tightly scripted, but Chasten treats it like improvisation, a drum solo that relies more on brushes than sticks. Review: Jessica Chastain Dazzles in Miss Sloane, an Elegantly Scripted Drama for Grown-ups 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Like Sorey, Mitchell is known for explosive improvisation but also for highly concentrated compositions that guide the listener to an uncanny focus on sound itself. Volcanic drummer and MacArthur ‘genius grant’ winner Tyshawn Sorey premieres new work with Seattle Symphony 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Kline said he had been playing around with drones that he creates on his electric guitar, using them as the basis for improvisations he spins out of the feedback generated by an amplifier. Johann Johannsson’s ‘Drone Mass’ Bridges Ancient and Modern at Temple of Dendur 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Without stopping for small details like a completed script, Russell embraced improvisation and ended up making the best and highest-grossing film of his career. When big-screen reunions work … and when they don't 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Jordan taught his students “River Niger,” and regardless of level, beginner or advanced, each student had an important role — whether playing the pentatonic scale according to his conduction or taking solo or collective free improvisations. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love New Orleans Jazz 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z A birdcall is sort of an improvisation, though. The Pianist Taka Kigawa on Playing Messiaen’s Bird Marathon 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z Much of the choreography seemed to be generated by similar improvisation exercises. Review: Reimagined Gibney Company Makes a Long-Winded Debut 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z “I really believe in the politics of improvisation,” she says. Amy Sillman’s Breakthrough Moment Is Here 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z It began using multitrack mixers — a move that Mr. Czukay would call “the beginning of the end,” because it led the band away from its signature open-ended improvisations. Holger Czukay, 79, Influential Rock Experimenter, Is Dead 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z But in 1989 he created “How to Get Started,” an experiment in sound design that, through the use of structured improvisation, creates greater emotional vulnerability in the performer with interesting results. Critic’s Notebook: So Percussion’s ‘Where (we) Live’ Has Echoes of John Cage 2012-12-18T23:05:51Z Critics love pointing out that he never did learn how to paint hands and had to rely on all kinds of splendid improvisations. New ‘Revelations’ in the Life of Francis Bacon, a Master of Darkness and Distortion 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Toward the end of the set the music began to weigh more on Mr. Sanders, who sang along to his bass improvisations. 2010-02-11T08:10:00Z On Bush: "In his gift for surreal improvisation he resembles an unintentional Paul Merton, a linguistic dada-ist, armed with nuclear weapons and a worrying sense that God is on his side." The Wit and Wisdom of Boris Johnson, introduced and edited by Harry Mount – review 2013-05-22T13:00:01Z Two improvisations of 30-45 minutes, "Great Howl" and "Town Haul," are on the program. Town Hall acoustics are just one of the 'instruments' used by the Deep Listening Band 2011-01-14T20:43:06Z Attacca communicated their joyful enthusiasm for this intriguing, idiomatic music with all the spontaneity of an on-the-spot improvisation. Young Attacca Quartet plays well beyond their years 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z Yet the execution of the written arrangements was excellent: their biggest challenge, as this talented group evolve on the bandstand, may be to find a closer integration between written elements and improvisation. Phil Robson's IMS Quintet ? review 2011-01-20T18:24:04Z They became astonishingly good at improvisation: it was stunning that they actually managed to keep the kids on track, without losing their characters. How we made Knightmare 2013-04-08T16:58:00Z Somewhere between the hypnosis of New Age, the grounded wisdom of folk songs and the chancy interplay of jazz improvisation, you’ll find the Aguas Trio. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z The work consists of a series of musical situations which, though meticulously composed, allow for generous amounts of improvisation and flexibility. Finding Beauty in Georg Friedrich Haas’s Darkness 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z As for the lack of quality control, Mitchum says that "if good improvisation is all about taking chances, there are going to be a few stinkers in there". Be grateful to the Grateful Dead 2011-01-27T21:30:01Z More germane is that the choro genre that evolved in the 19th century depended heavily on improvisation, and Villa-Lobos’s form develops here with seeming whimsy, seldom looking back on itself. Review: São Paulo State Youth Orchestra Saves Razzle-Dazzle for the End 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z “When it is, it’s done in a very institutional fashion — usually in conservatories, which do not encourage group play or improvisation.” Appalachia on the Seine: Bluegrass Swings in Paris 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z That is not to say that improvisation is entirely absent. Orchestras Looking to Broaden Horizons? Start Improvising 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z In her phrasing and improvisation, Ms. Callaway is not a trailblazer like Vaughan but an extremely skillful mimic. Music Review: Ann Hampton Callaway at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola 2013-05-03T21:15:43Z He had been immersed in musical education since the 60s, convinced by improvisation's potential as an enriching educational experience, and was always open and encouraging of his students' ideas; the Kollektief ran educational workshops worldwide. Willem Breuker obituary 2010-07-29T17:27:00Z He doesn’t just improvise, he teaches a class in aesthetic and social theories of improvisation, at Harvard; he makes music that not only intersects different strategies but lingers over the places of intersection. Releases From Bob Dylan and Diana Krall 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z The slow improvisations here are the stars: “Tokyo Part III,” which grows into a mild flurry of dissonance; “Tokyo Part IV,” with its Bill Evans-like, rootless chord voicings; and the super-slow, magisterial “Tokyo Part IX.” Masabumi Kikuchi, Playing Peacefully Through the Dissonance 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z In both cases, the delay resulted not from indecision or wilfulness on the part of the dramatist, but because the plays were born out of improvisations with the cast. Do play titles matter? 2013-04-01T11:17:03Z "A film has to move forward all the time, so there's slightly less room for improvisation," said the veteran writer. Connolly's 'joy' at being Outnumbered 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z There was always an improvisation which could spin in any way, a vocal improvisation on my part. It Was ‘Cool Central’: Bill T. Jones Leads a Trip Through His Archive 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z It grants us a veritable conservator’s-eye view, stressing the deliberation with which Rauschenberg worked, despite the appearance of improvisation and randomness. Art Review: Rauschenberg, Before Fame Struck 2014-05-08T20:35:43Z Scully began managing the band, recognized for their improvisation and fusion of genres of country and blues with rock, and helped them become one of the top touring groups. First Grateful Dead manager Rock Scully dies at age 73 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z They are masters in improvisation with a 'can-do' attitude. Havana’s Symphony of Sound 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Here, pedestrian movement was OK; improvisation was OK; minimalism was OK. Valda Setterfield Dies at 88; a Star in the Postmodern Dance Firmament 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z It had lyrical grace, funk, gospel crescendos and gnashing collective improvisation; it also broke out into a unaccompanied solo passages for Mr. Washington and for the drummers, Mr. Austin and Ronald Bruner. Review: Kamasi Washington’s Spiritual Circle, Looking Inward 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z It was so fluid, before anyone in China knew what free improvisation was. Du Yun: A Composer’s 10 Cultural Influences 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z As a model they also looked to Yehudi Menuhin and Stéphane Grappelli’s classical-meets-jazz collaborations, Feinstein said, in which Menuhin’s parts were precisely notated while Grappelli’s left room for improvisation. For This Classical Piano Star, a Detour Is Business as Usual 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Ms. Forti is still pushing today, now pulling language into her earthy movement improvisations. Vibrant Scene?s 20th-Century Base 2010-12-17T14:43:11Z Born in Decatur, Ga., on April 23, 1957, and raised in Atlanta, Ms. Hooks got her comedy training, as many other “S.N.L.” performers did, at the Groundlings, the Los Angeles improvisation and sketch troupe. Jan Hooks of ‘Saturday Night Live’ Fame Is Dead at 57 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Werkplaats Walter is a roost for the extremes of classical, electronic, jazz, rock and improvisation. 10 of the best music venues in Brussels 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z NBC's Thursday night lineup has four comedies that complement each other without seeming like clones -- single-camera, formally playful sitcoms with a whiff of improvisation. Is NBC's Thursday night lineup doomed? 2011-04-15T14:15:00Z “Challenge Within” was the set’s most outwardly dazzling number, and it provoked some of its strongest improvisations. | Antonio Sanchez Quartet: Paths Converging on a Rhythmic Base 2010-09-22T22:00:00Z There are also many scales of Dolphy’s own devising, which he was using as the basis for improvisation; practice books and lead sheets; and a page of transcriptions of bird calls. A New Focus on Eric Dolphy, in Washington and Montclair 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z “There was a heavy focus in Adia’s mind on improvisation and allowing space for weird experiments and futuristic alchemy to happen,” Dessner said. Adia Victoria Wants to Make the Blues Dangerous Again 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z At Dia:Beacon, those elements, presented in a certain order, are material for an improvisation by Mr. Konjar, who is Slovenian and several decades younger than Mr. Paxton. Steve Paxton Reprises Dance Works at Dia:Beacon 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z At the Jazz Gallery, they hardly addressed that source material, instead swerving quickly into the open terrain of free improvisation. Wynton Marsalis Provokes Again With Head-Scratching ‘Ever Fonky Lowdown’ 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z The laptops, processing the violin sounds in real time and introducing new ones, scrambled the message through improvisation. Music Review | Glissando bin Laden: Violins Face Off Against Laptops in a Friendly Improvisational Duel 2010-03-08T06:36:00Z Where so much contemporary jazz can be a dreary display of muscle memory, Tigran has found a way to keep improvisation fresh and lyrical. London Jazz Festival: Tigran Hamasyan – review 2012-11-11T17:51:46Z And it's about improvisation, singing in the spaces. Broadway vet Brian Stokes Mitchell jazzes up SSO pops 2012-05-24T20:27:06Z The middle section varies from comedian to comedian, but it's usually a couple of sentences of foul-mouthed improvisation designed to make an audience squirm a little bit. Bob Saget, a dirty daddy: Appreciating the darker elements of the talented comedian's work 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z Electronic bleeps and Wurlitzer organ noises get blown away by sax blasts, and wistfully romantic ballad themes develop over soft synth strings, before scuttling guitar improvisations wrestle with free-tenor eruptions. Shatner's Bassoon: Aquatic Ape Privilege – review 2013-02-07T23:45:01Z The group had found a winning formula — repeating a catchy melody over and over, as in a pop tune, adding a bluesy rhythm and leaving room for improvisation. Redd Holt, Drummer on Instrumentals That Became Pop Hits, Dies at 91 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z What role does improvisation play in your music? Bob Dylan Has a Lot on His Mind 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z It is a prolonged and controlled fury, definitely one of the best improvisations I’ve heard this year. Playlist: Revisiting the Cassette Era and Tito Puente 2011-03-25T19:04:13Z In it, Ms. Benitez blends contact improvisation, a form of dance improvisation that involves physical contact, and sign language in three interrelated vignettes; each section is composed in reaction to its surroundings. Dance This Week: Francisca Benitez, Yvonne Rainer and More 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Open Movement, a Performance Space tradition offering free improvisation sessions and workshops each Sunday, also returns. 54 Dance Programs, Festivals and More Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z There are moments when the slapstick becomes slapdash – it's debatable whether the digressive improvisations based on Ghostbusters and The Lion King are really necessary, and the whole concept may be too cloying for some. Hamlet the Clown?Prince ? review 2011-03-09T19:45:00Z The aura of improvisation applies at least doubly to the persona of Lewis Carroll adopted by Charles Lutwidge Dodson, venerable, finicky and socially maladroit Oxford don. Looking at the Birth of Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice,’ 150 Years Old 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z But in a steel pan orchestra, much of the playing is straightforward, and there’s almost no room for improvisation. In Victor Provost’s hands, the steel pan becomes a mesmerizing ride 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Later, in the 1960s, when Zimmermann was working with a jazz quintet on improvisations based on his theatrical music, he would again employ similarly wiry keyboard attacks. A Musical Modernist’s New, Smiling Guise 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z And listening as a young adult, I feel it demands immediate reverence and respect — for these elders, who were masters of improvisation and innovation, and whose music deserves to be celebrated. ‘Buena Vista Social Club’ at 25: Memories of Memories 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Still an undergraduate at the Royal Academy of Music in London, he’s been continuing lessons with his teacher over video chat this spring, and working on the improvisations and arrangements he likes to toy with. The Sheku Effect: A Classical Music Star Rises 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z The connections are there, the closer you listen: in instrumentation, in the compressed balance between composition and improvisation, in the spirit of revision. Arts & Leisure Preview: Ultimate Box of Jazz? Not Exactly 2011-03-17T17:46:52Z In Europe, he fell in with Don Cherry, an American trumpeter who became an exponent of free jazz, which eschewed traditional harmonies and tempos in favor of free-spirited improvisation. Gato Barbieri, Grammy-winning saxophonist heard on ‘Last Tango in Paris’ score, dies at 83 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Maybe you saw “Shadows,” which inaugurated the actor’s directorial career in the late 1950s, and believed its closing title card: “The film you have just seen was an improvisation.” Find Cassavetes Confusing? Start Here 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Rivette loved his actors and built most of his movies on the basis of their contributions to the substance of the film, whether in improvisation or in the script. Postscript: Jacques Rivette 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z So in “Inventions/Reinventions,” Tepfer boldly — even audaciously — supplies those “missing” nine inventions in the form of his own free improvisations. Bach Invented. Now a Pianist Is Trying to Match Him. 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z Reports differ on how much was scripted and how much was ad-libbed, but the resulting repartee feels akin to both tightly scripted screwball comedy and the loose freewheeling improvisation of The Trip. My streaming gem: why you should watch Road to Bali 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z This comic tale of marital doldrums is a demonstration of Apatow’s signature generosity as a director: he loves actors, he loves improvisation, he loves being on set. Apatow’s This Is 40: Way Too Many Scenes From a Marriage 2012-12-19T15:00:17Z “Romance at short notice was her specialty,” Saki wrote of the heroine in his short story “The Open Window”; Marian, too, has discovered the usefulness of quick improvisation. In Simon Mawer’s ‘Tightrope,’ a Female Spy Masters the Tools of Her Trade 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z I’m sure we did some improvisation, but I don’t remember. Scary Movie Week: Famous horror-movie death scenes 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z Directs two plays for the stage – Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs, and The Box Play – in which he first experiments with improvisation. 'Silly question!' Mike Leigh interviewed by our readers and famous fans 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z The choreographic process for “This” also included, for the first time, duet improvisations. Neil Greenberg at New York Live Arts 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Superficially, Continuous Interruptions is an abstract piece: its vocabulary a muscular, sculptural fusion of ballet, street dance and contact improvisation; its structure accommodating deftly crafted contrasts of scale and dynamic. Russian dance that's out of this world: Turin's Teatro a Corte 2011-07-13T11:36:09Z Noting the absence of a two-piano score, he likens the piece to an improvisation and counts himself skeptical of attempts to mount it without her. Reviving the Ghostly Sounds of Maryanne Amacher 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z “Which Side Are You On?” — a Rzewski piece based on a 1931 protest song — features an extended improvisation, which has become integral to Mr. Tao’s performance practice over the past few years. Conrad Tao Was Never Just Another Prodigy 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z The dance, for four performers, is a search for happiness that explores “mysticism and sensuality, as well as meditation and improvisation,” according to Live Arts. Dance Inspired by ‘A Love Supreme’ to Open New York Live Arts Season 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z The New Deal, a keyboard-bass-drums trio, percolated through blipping, upbeat instrumentals with the unswerving tempo and dynamics of digital loops, only to rupture the illusion now and then with an outburst of noisy keyboard improvisation. The Hudson Project, Cut Short by a (Real) Tempest 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z He said, “This improvisation stuff is great, but get those lines out. I don’t care if you say them before, during or after whatever you’re doing. The words are important.” Steven Bochco and Others on Creating ‘Hill Street Blues’ 2014-05-01T17:39:39Z Those improvisations are included in the film, along with footage of her early days, when she worked only with women. Twyla Tharp and Her Body of Perpetual Motion 2021-03-18T04:00:00Z That much is apparent on “Asteroidea,” its engrossing debut album of free improvisations, released in October. The Month in Live Jazz: 5 Standout Shows 2017-12-31T05:00:00Z Yet even when you approach improvisation with the purest of intentions and the sharpest of skills, you’re never entirely certain what will happen. Music Review: Jazz Meets Classical at the Miller Theater 2010-07-25T23:55:00Z The Second City’s 55th Anniversary Tour The Chicago-based troupe offers new improvisations and classic sketches. L.A. theater openings, Nov. 9-16: 'O Réjane' and more 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z With its swirling organ, boogaloo fugues and aggressively atonal guitar bursts, this extended improvisation suggests a musical showdown between the jazz guitarist Sonny Sharrock and the avant-garde German group Can. Meet the Musicians Who Gave Isaac Hayes His Groove 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Another: His gifted improvisations on the piano, despite never having taken a music lesson. Before ‘Elvis,’ Improv Students Exchange Ad-Libbed Vows 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Bass joined them, adding piano and vocals to the group's performance art approach to collective improvisation. Fontella Bass obituary 2012-12-28T13:51:36Z Mr. Ellis was an early disciple of Charlie Christian, whose deft improvisations, built on long single-note lines, established the template for modern jazz guitar in the 1940s. Herb Ellis, Jazz Guitarist, Is Dead at 88 2010-03-31T03:52:00Z Produced by the bassist Derrick Hodge, it’s got a spacey, glistening ambience, but Francies cuts through that with his bright, forthright touch and dashing improvisations. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Leigh himself will give a two-hour master class on Dec. 11 for those interested in the writer and director’s famous technique of developing scripts through improvisation with his actors. In Transit Blog: In Paris, Celebrating London on the Big Screen 2011-12-07T11:00:53Z The New York Times' review of Beat Street praised the actor Guy Davis, "who plays a disc jockey with a special gift for the rhymed improvisation that's called rapping". It's a rap: hip-hop and Hollywood 2012-07-19T19:00:00Z And he did nothing substantially different from what he’s been doing since the 1950s, which is playing more-or-less free improvisation with standards as a guide. Music Review: Veterans With Quartets, Stretching Out in Sound 2011-02-27T23:05:32Z He opened his program on Saturday by seguing from his own mercurial, rippling improvisation into Adams’s kaleidoscopic “China Gates.” Two Pianists, Two Recitals, Two Deeply Personal Statements 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z A tumult of loose improvisation opened the show, followed by a slow theme with a flamenco-like kick that built into a torrent of fast, ascending runs; Jarrett crouched and muttered, stamping his feet. Keith Jarrett – review 2013-02-26T18:16:43Z She also fails to work the sort of entertaining improvisations on her material that Ms. Fielding did in “Bridget Jones.” Curtis Sittenfeld’s ‘Eligible’ Updates Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’ 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z The three made their first collaborative sound collages in their bedrooms, recording improvisations and found sounds, including a teach-your-parakeet-to-speak record and a conversation between Mr. Wills’s parents. Richard Lyons, a Founder of the Subversive Band Negativland, Dies at 57 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z Here, the performance was preceded by a recording of Mr. Eastman singing a solo improvisation on the names of the saints Joan of Arc invoked during her trial. Review: American Contemporary Music Ensemble at the Kitchen 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z The merger of those two is the American aesthetic freedom of that improvisation within form. Wendell Pierce on bringing a Black Willy Loman to life, making "Death of a Salesman" relevant today 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Zimmerli’s writing is intricately plotted; where there’s space for improvisation he lays useful traps, seeking to thwart the reflexive fluency of his players. New Jazz Albums: ?Orvieto? and ?Modern Jazz? 2011-09-18T00:45:05Z Mr. Paxton also became a founding member of two groundbreaking collectives — Judson Dance Theater and Grand Union — that rebelled against the conventions of modern dance by embracing ordinary movement and risk-taking improvisation. Steve Paxton, a Buddha of American Dance 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z "Did I see Robin doing any improvisation? That would be like saying did you see the pope wearing his vestments?" said Goldberg, who became the supervising animator on the character. How Robin Williams became 'Aladdin's' Genie 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z They are a staple of the jam scene, and like the Grateful Dead and The Allman Brothers, play unpredictable shows full of improvisation and surprise set choices. Gov't Mule embraces Pink Floyd, peace and protest: "We're in some pretty precarious times" 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z Working with a Brazilian guitarist, he learned to fill empty musical spaces with expressive improvisations. Al Jarreau, seven-time Grammy-winning singer, dies at 76 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z Everyone contributes a brief, compelling improvisation before the arrival of a quickening coda, dark and unexpectedly brusque. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-03-14T23:23:56Z But improvisation is really about achieving communication in some higher realm in the moment. Patti Smith’s most personal interview: “The things that make me feel strange – I’ve transformed them into work” 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z The title track overlays two separately recorded duo improvisations, by the dissected halves of his quartet. New Music: New Albums from Patti Smith, Ravi Coltrane and Neneh Cherry 2012-06-18T21:55:59Z Neu!’s music channeled the improvisations of psychedelia through rigorous Minimalistic constraints: an unswerving beat, limited harmonies and determinedly terse melodies. Music Review: Michael Rother and Hermeto Pascoal at Damrosch Park 2010-08-08T22:13:00Z They spent a lot of time with each other, we did a lot of workshops, improvisations, and things like that, to bring that dynamic together. Director of Netflix’s “Skater Girl" on making a film set in India that avoids white savior tropes 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z For this culmination of a Danspace residency, programs will touch on improvisation, movement, fellowship, music and discussion. 39 Dance Performances to See This Fall 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z All those concerts were in one year, and that's the year I got into improvisation. Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z In Wednesday’s set, improvisations ran a bit longer, tempos ran a bit faster. Music Review: Warren Wolf & Wolfpack at 92Y Tribeca - Review 2011-11-17T22:19:55Z In an improvisation class in 1989, the instructor asked her to dance and speak at the same time. For Michelle Ellsworth, Practice Makes … More Practice 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z As Dolores pushes to uncover her hazy past, she, too, is working toward the moment when she can go beyond improvisation and write a new script for herself. The Latest “Westworld” Reveal Shows It’s No “Game of Thrones” 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z They kept those sessions loose, to capture variations and improvisations, which they would edit into audio scenes before moving on to another chunk of the story. How ‘Marcel the Shell’ Went From YouTube to the Big Screen 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z The invention of the long-playing record had allowed the art of extended improvisation, as well as the freedom of the jam session, to at last be represented on disc. 50 great moments in jazz: Duke Ellington plays Newport jazz festival 2010-04-06T11:02:00Z The ultimate aim is for the piece to become an interactive improvisation on the theme of the Floral Dance. Cornish Floral Dance: a fuzzy custom 2011-07-07T21:00:02Z Corboz turned to the acoustic piano to invite the long and meditative first-set episodes that brought the melting-candle effect, with a quiet ballad intro that elicited an initially shy and then supple trumpet improvisation. Erik Truffaz – review 2013-03-26T18:34:49Z Both derived from videotaped improvisations, culled, memorized and rearranged. Review: Neil Greenberg, Jennifer Monson and Yvonne Meier in Motion, in a Mixed Bill at Jack 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z Face the Music’s improvisation collective, featuring some of the youngest students, will perform Composition No. 192, a ritualistic piece from Mr. Braxton’s “Ghost Trance Music” series. High School Musicians Take on the (Almost) Unplayable 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z In 1966 he recorded an album with the Free Spirits, a short-lived rock band that mixed radio-friendly melodies with adventurous stretches of instrumental improvisation. Larry Coryell, Guitarist of Fusion Before It Had a Name, Dies at 73 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Near the end of class, the students did an improvisation to Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8, one of the darker pieces in the classical repertory. In Each Child, an Inner Choreographer 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z But by the time the performance went down, I could see that people had really made a transition there, and were really open to improvisation. A Pioneering Black Composer Keeps Pushing 2017-06-23T04:00:00Z In his improvisations, on tenor and soprano saxophone, Mr. Shorter didn’t play grand old man, delivering bravura statements with predictable arcs followed by obvious spaces for applause. Review: Wayne Shorter Goes Solo With the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z But he also provided the soundscapes for a wide range of recurring routines — from “The Lives of the Cowboys” to “Guy Noir, Private Eye” — using inventive improvisations. Tom Keith, Creator of Radio Soundscapes, Dies at 64 2011-11-02T03:54:16Z I'd gone to sing, but one day I found myself doing an improvisation and thought, "Oh God, I quite like this acting thing." Lesley Manville, actor – portrait of the artist 2013-04-16T18:00:01Z But an even higher level of trust and mutual listening is required in music that includes improvisation, a fact that the cellist Yo-Yo Ma seized on when he founded the Silk Road Ensemble in 1998. Watch 5 Moments When Classical Music Met Politics 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Presumably many listeners knew the whole recorded improvisation by heart, but here he rarely refers to it. Music: Coleman Hawkins Outplays Himself in Savory Collection 2010-08-17T22:17:00Z What is extraordinary is that it’s not cinematic grandstanding, but a tiny naturalistic drama that feels like an improvised film within a film: an improvisation embedded in an edited, scripted construct. 'A pas de deux of sex and violence': a poet's guide to film noir 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z It’s going to be pure improvisation — maximum risk. Jazz for Society's Darkest Side 2010-06-02T11:30:00Z The organ is also the only classical instrument for which improvisation is part of the standard training. Originality enlivens the birthday party for Hurricane Mama 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z Instead, they claim it was an improvisation exercise that involved no such trickery. Acting up: Angelina Jolie and the movie stars who dispute their interviews 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Leigh developed a method whereby he would begin each project without a script – only after months of rehearsal and improvisation would one emerge. 'Silly question!' Mike Leigh interviewed by our readers and famous fans 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z Through a mix of dumb luck and improvisation, the Blumquists have survived at the center, functioning almost like the eye of a hurricane that’s leveling the Upper Midwest. ‘Fargo’ Season 2, Episode 8: A Man Without a Country 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z And for a little while, when Mr. Brötzmann was changing a reed, he played an improvisation in deep, medium-slow swing fractured by rests — jazz, as most of us know it. Music Review: Peter Brötzmann and Jason Adasiewicz at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-09-06T21:59:32Z And “Carcassonne” uses the same elliptical narrative techniques employed in “A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters” to create a glittering improvisation on the life of the Italian hero Garibaldi. Books of The Times: Love, Loss, Change and Being English 2011-05-06T05:48:02Z Leigh repeatedly uses the word "precise," perhaps to emphasize that his method, partly influenced by Cassavetes, actually involves very little on-camera improvisation. "Another Year," another Oscar bet for Mike Leigh 2011-01-03T03:52:59Z Given how much improvisation was required, why did you decide to base the film around such a young character? Oscar Surprise: Why a 5-Year-Old Actress Might Just Win Over the Academy 2012-12-20T10:45:26Z Overall, the film was tightly scripted, but Dosch has a few moments of inspired improvisation. Meet the new double act of French cinema 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z In Brooklyn, his improvisation in C-sharp minor was gently jazzy, with passages of jumpy riffs alternating with delicate filigree. Bach Invented. Now a Pianist Is Trying to Match Him. 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z He studied at the Showcase Theater in Manhattan and spent a year working in Chicago with the Second City, the comedy improvisation troupe. Fred Willard, Who Played Characters ‘Gloriously Out of Their Depth,’ Dies at 86 2020-05-16T04:00:00Z A shard of melody bobbed up now and then, but it was the soft storm of ensemble improvisation that mattered most. Ahmad Jamal is still surprising at 84 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z Using quick cuts, inventive camera angles and a taste for improvisation, he created spontaneity on-screen in a way that still delights. 'A Hard Day's Night' continues to dazzle, 50 years on 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z "I proceed with painstaking logic; an expansive embrace of improvisation, spontaneity, as well as a regard for the body's natural capabilities, the natural pathways of its movement." Trisha Brown Dance Company brings familiar favorites, world premiere to Seattle 2011-03-26T01:04:18Z On the title track, a group improvisation, Mr. Garrison lays a framework of looped chords and effects, over which Ravi Coltrane ventures a soprano saxophone melody, elucidating a song form in real time. Review: Jack DeJohnette’s ‘In Movement’ and ‘Return’ Show Sweep 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z The music died in 1974, when the Stalinist Derg regime deposed Emperor Haile Selassie and banned almost every type of freedom, including a musical form based on improvisation. Swing State: Jazz-Mad Ethiopia Rejoices at a Musical Revival 2011-10-05T06:20:00Z Even with some improvisation, there is not one throwaway line in this fat-free script. Chris Rock a rough, raw, rare diamond in 'Top Five' 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Grainger fantasised about bringing together diverse forces for his Scotch Strathspey and Reel, including deep-sea sailors "miraculously endowed with the gift of polyphonic improvisation". Prom 25: Northern Sinfonia/Kathryn Tickell Band/BBC Singers ? review 2011-08-03T13:25:42Z Two young men born just after the end of the second world war meet on a music improvisation course. Why Kraftwerk are still the world's most influential band 2013-01-27T09:00:03Z I think there are three important elements: rhythm, harmony, and free improvisation. The Underground Worlds of Haruki Murakami 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z These improvisations were the beginnings of what would become the “Méditations,” composed in 1969. Music Review: Jon Gillock Plays Messiaen - Review 2011-11-16T22:40:23Z The improvisations work less well in the squad-room scenes, which can play like Detective Work for Dummies, and least well in the moments of friendly banter, which come off as forced and vaguely embarrassing. Review: ‘Suspects,’ Britain’s Unscripted Relative of ‘Law & Order’ 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z They made music that was decisive and purposeful and authoritative — almost as if attaining the greatest balance and coherence of written music were the point of free improvisation. Tyshawn Sorey and Marilyn Crispell Improvise at the Stone 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z The beauty of her voice and her facility at decorative improvisation spoke for themselves. Music Review: Jane Monheit at Birdland 2013-05-24T20:16:15Z There was slow or spacious solo-piano music from various indistinct traditions; a few melodies that might have been film-soundtrack themes; a bit of improvisation. Annoyed by Restaurant Playlists, a Master Musician Made His Own 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z He has been teaching that and improvisation for decades. In Switzerland, a musician searches for the ‘Holy Grail’ of instruments 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z How improvisational is the Body/Head stuff, and how important is improvisation to the finished songs? Kim Gordon on Body/Head and the election: “I can’t wait for it to be over, but I’m afraid of what’s going to happen” 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z When the high schoolers needed a break from the rigors of Composition No. 55, the adult musicians talked them through Mr. Braxton’s “language music” system for improvisation. High School Musicians Take on the (Almost) Unplayable 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z Right to the end, he thrilled audiences with his blend of delicate, drifting playing and passages of extraordinary, rapid-fire, rhythmic improvisation. Ravi Shankar: the Beatles' muse who turned his back on rock 2012-12-12T20:43:56Z The duo recently released a transfixing album, “Weatherbird,” which builds on the titular recording by Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines, colliding elements of stride piano and New Orleans jazz with free improvisation and extended technique. 15 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z But closer attention reveals one of the enduring masters of improvisation on the Great American Songbook, an all but lost art in its original form. Scott Hamilton review 2011-01-05T22:15:00Z He sang his Handel aria with such inspiration and poise that a Met coach asked him to write out the ornaments of improvisation he’d added. Sing for Your Life 2011-05-20T16:00:31Z The show is not scripted and she found the improvisations taxing, though perhaps not as tough as being banned from having her hair down or wearing makeup. Vivica A Fox: 'Black Lives Matter is going to be Trump's demise' 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z Small skittering hops and stamping motifs send the dancers ricocheting across a white, light-drenched stage, composed in the moment within the work’s overall arc, which is set but allows for a great deal of improvisation. Dance Review: No Matter the Country, Boys Will Be Boys 2010-10-20T21:31:00Z A native New Yorker who made her first solo in middle school, Ms. May grew up studying dance composition and improvisation; her early influences included the experimental choreographers Neil Greenberg and Susan Rethorst. A Dance of the Unspeakable 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Pushing her voice almost to the point at which her singing threatened to turn into an acting exercise, Ms. Bridgewater held back just enough for the piece to cohere as a brilliant jazz improvisation. Music Review | Dee Dee Bridgewater: A Woman and Her Band Commune With a Legend 2010-02-19T06:19:00Z Both she and Mavity were determined to ensure the improvisation was authentic and felt it was essential to maintain absolute secrecy. The risky business of using a live broadcast to plug a product 2013-06-19T10:51:51Z Its smoothly unfolding flow of movement holds no improvisation or uncertainty. Dance Review: Evolving Movements That Flow Through Time and Into Infinity 2010-10-12T21:40:00Z Priester’s musical philosophy is evident in his improvisation, like in the intro to “Polarization.” Seattle’s Julian Priester helped create jazz as we know it. Now, he’s focusing on teaching the art of listening 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Mr. Edberg is a cello professor at DePauw University, where, in addition to standard repertoire, he teaches improvisation; his website includes several clips of his work. Review: Tackling Bach, Debussy and Prokofiev at Spectrum 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z The one essential element in any jazz performance, the preservation of the illusion of improvisation, he has cast to the winds, pursuing instead rarer and rarer refinement. From the Observer archive, 29 November 1959: how to take pizzazz out of jazz 2012-11-24T00:05:25Z Mr. Corea and Mr. Frisell, who had never played together before, fashioned an exquisite duo improvisation on the standard "It Could Happen to You." ArtsBeat: SFJAZZ Center Opens as Temple of Jazz in California 2013-01-24T10:12:39Z At a remove from mainland studios, he often uses real locations, nonprofessional actors and improvisation, capturing something ephemeral in the process. Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien captures life's big, small moments 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z The work comprises a partly painted canvas and, in front of it, occasional improvisations by a ballerina and a violinist. Dance Listings for Jan. 3-9 2014-01-02T23:16:06Z Even more, it was about the appreciation of comic improvisation. Watchlist: Analyze This: A Webisode?s Id Meets Its TV Ego 2011-07-30T04:00:14Z Other examples of this genre — collective choreography drawn from a soloist accustomed to ad-libbing — are underwhelming, but Slyde’s “Interplay” finds a rare balance between set structure and prompts for individualizing improvisation. Sets Featuring Fonteyn, the Cunningham Company and Others 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z It amounted to a miniature history lesson on the evolution of European jazz-influenced improvisation. ICP Orchestra and Friends – review 2013-01-31T17:51:40Z That made it an apt partner in Ms. Dinnerstein’s brief improvisation on Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky,” which opened the evening, creating cobweb-and-moonbeam music well suited to the ominous nonsense text of the poem. Music Review: ‘The Story of Babar the Elephant’ at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-11-21T22:50:07Z |
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