I saw some tents here and there—for the most part, old ones with patches on them, or tents improvised out of sheets. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

A good book of this type will give the student a chance to improvise on many familiar tunes, and some also introduce the music theory involved. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

The sleeping bags were forward, under the improvised decking on the bow. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

"After," I say again, beginning to improvise an explanation. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Medieval church musicians called the technique of running two notes in parallel - which they improvised on the spot - ‘organum’, because to their ears it sounded like an organ. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And then I go for it, risking my worst talent with an improvised, final zinger: “It’s a tough thing to have a mom with a stomach ailment, when you barely have a dad at all.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I was finally learning the proper way to do all those skills I used to improvise on the trampoline. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Perhaps if he had time the principles of this device could be unraveled, but for now he would have to improvise. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

One by one the lovers tried out all the abandoned rooms, and finally chose an improvised nest in the depths of the basement. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taylor can improvise harmonies, and I guess we're all warmed up from singing the Oliver! songs, because it just sounds really amazing. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Game Time and Crunch Time engaged in a particularly sweaty and determined fencing match, their improvised swords—a fireplace poker and a snow shovel handle—whizzing and clanking. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

In an improvised “dressing room” behind the stage we lead actors sat on folding chairs. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The staggering fact is that Bach could improvise fugues like this at the keyboard, and often did. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The overall effect sounds as if the drummer, formerly the guardian of the steady pulse, has been asked to improvise a solo from the first beat of the piece. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And now she watched, one hand in the water, the other, in a kind of anguish, at her waist, which was circled still by the improvised apron of the morning. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

He had the awkward tenderness of someone who has never been loved and is forced to improvise. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m not really sure what the Old Man House looked like in real life, but I’m improvising. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

These shelters were lined up in a sort of organized chaos; they seemed improvised and temporary, but they’d been there for years. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

They had to improvise a bed for Alba on the floor because she refused to leave the room, and when they tried to take her out she had her first tantrum. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small jazz combo with a bass, a piano, and a drum set providing the "rhythm" background for a trumpet improvising a solo. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

On the first and last repetition, the melody is played or sung, and soloists improvise during the other repetitions. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

A good performer will be familiar with dozens of ragas and can improvise music — traditional classical music in India is improvised — using the accepted format for each raga. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

So the airwomen of the 46th Guards improvised a way to get their planes into the air. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

I tugged at Otto’s ear and he, in response to the improvised game, swung his hand in the air, making a random Z. Bouain froze. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

They lit a few improvised lamps made of tin cans filled with gasoline and a smoky wick. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

All its glamor had vanished, and the crudely improvised phosphorus atoms gave no hint that they would ever neatly fit into something of value. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

She wanted to try and catch Shadows, and without the instruments in her laboratory she had to improvise with the materials at hand. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He placed a foot in the improvised stirrup and swung upward. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

For example, because improvising music is far more complex than imitating basic patterns, the latter is required in order to perform the former. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

When she came to the refrain, however, she did not do the dance about evil spirits, but improvised—as Eskimos do at this point. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before he knew what was happening, Ricky improvised a hip throw and Luke landed on top of the flimsy coffee table, splintering the wood and glass. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The song was always improvised, except for the repeated Oh! Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

We do tend to improvise things like this as we go along, but it is clear that we can pick and choose. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t submit a single entry to our improvised playlist, because I wasn’t old enough to have an iPod and I only listened to Disney soundtracks at the time, besides. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Take another little piece of my heart now, baby ...” The band tried to improvise a big finish, but in the end, the song just fizzled out. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Inference learning occurs conceptually, where the student is able to identify, create, and improvise with musical materials already learned. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

From the tavern below a man improvised a ballad about “poor Mack Parker ... overcome with passion ... his body in the creek.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The improvised bridge wobbled and sprang a bit, but it held. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Down by the dock, June and Nora are embroiled in what looks like an improvised jousting match, charging at each other on the backs of inflatable animals with pool noodles. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I am not as good at improvising as I had hoped I would be. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“But you don’t wanna go in there improvising. Always get your cover story straight.” The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Since we didn’t have money for furniture, we improvised. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

At Tutwiler, women are crammed into dormitories and improvised living spaces. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He improvised an altar in the square and on Sunday he went through the town with a small bell, as in the days of insomnia, calling people to an open-air mass. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

When she tired of these melodies she improvised on the songs of her childhood. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

That meant Leo had only himself, his bag of junk food, and a few highly improvised weapons made from sugar and toothpaste. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Right: Astronauts studying the rock formations in Meteor Crater, Arizona Charlie Bassett and I standing by our improvised desert home Two views of the “Wheel.” Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luma learned that the boys lived in all kinds of improvised family arrangements, often not with parents but with uncles, aunts, and cousins. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

A shower had been improvised from a rubber hose and a bucket filled with water heated by the kitchen staff. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Once, during a performance when she was singing in German, she forgot some words and improvised others instead. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Tools for emergency, tow lines, a small block and tackle, a trenching tool and crowbar, tools for making and fixing and improvising. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hiding out in our apartment, sleeping on an improvised bed like the draft dodgers, a refugee, a displaced person, smoking up the kitchen with Jon wondering who the hell she is and why she’s there. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But we were going to have to improvise. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Dri’s improvised distiller filled two peanut cans a day, and the sky had to be cloudless. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t have the mortar and pestle Mama would have used in this situation back at the Night Zoo, but she improvised, using a rock to grind the seeds against a large leaf. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He took charge of distributing water, transferring into receptacles even the water already in the toilet tanks, and he improvised a kitchen that, to everyone’s amazement, produced instant coffee, cookies, and some cans of beer. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was everywhere at once, pushing, pulling, sawing, hammering, improvising, jollying everyone along with comradely exhortations and giving out from every fold of his body what seemed an inexhaustible supply of acrid-smelling sweat. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

My mother attended to my father, improvising her own version of CPR while also minding Shani. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t ’bout to do none of what he called “improvising nor improving”; he’d kept drilling in me that things had to go A-B-C and if they did we’d be all right. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

These tough ratings sat up in bed darning their socks, and insisted on hand-washing their own smalls, which they dried on washing lines improvised from string, suspended along the radiators. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Even as I sat, the ending I had improvised was fading from my memory. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Here, for instance, is an improvised exchange between two actors in a class that Johnstone was teaching: Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I wonder if they created drawings and stencils first, or if they just grabbed their cans of spray paint and improvised. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“In a—a fan magazine,” he improvised wildly and Krum looked mollified. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She is becoming even more indifferent to fashion, and strides around in improvised getups, a ski jacket, an old scarf, mitts that don’t match. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mine I must improvise to his because of his great size. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a good blacksmith and carpenter and wood- carver, and he could improvise anything with bits of wood and metal. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

True, they had settled a few islands by swimming short stretches of water or crossing them on improvised rafts. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

We make angels and devils of our own want and regard, improvising from ourselves along the way. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have improvised quite a bit trying to come up with tents that did not require blueprints.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Everything had to be improvised, a great many hands hired and taught to do the work. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to extract us from the nest without waking Songololo, but that would have been hard enough in a bed, even worse in an improvised hammock that tipped and rocked with every movement. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

We improvised and managed to exchange a great deal of information that way. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Attempting to swim the numbingly cold torrent or even to paddle some sort of improvised raft across seemed too risky to consider. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

People stopped sleeping in their houses, terrified at the thought that such a disaster could recur, improvising tents in open spaces or sleeping in the middle of squares and streets. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then his improvised wick caught and burned with a steady blue flame, and the world began to shimmer around them. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She kissed her on the forehead, just as Ferula had kissed her only a few hours earlier in her own dining room, and then she calmly proceeded to improvise the rites of the dead. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

At a game like this, a gifted human player could always triumph over the game’s AI, because software couldn’t improvise. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Polyrhythm, as it has since been dubbed, had long existed in African tribal drumming, improvised on the spot by highly intuitive, skillful players, often in various states of trance. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I improvise, trying to sound as though I am reciting a memorized message, without inflection in the words. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Each “mother” takes 8 beats to improvise using body percussion. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

On the day of our arrival, Father and I improvised a chamber pot, sacrificing a canning jar for this purpose. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

A colonel came down the beach with his entourage, exhorting the noncoms and junior officers to re-form and improvise squads. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Since there is no restriction tying the singer to a “fixed” notation, children are free to just imitate or to explore, improvise and play with the sound. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

He went to the improvised infirmary to get a package of cotton and found some handkerchiefs, but it was soon clear that they were insufficient. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She draws circles in the air with her right hand, which is the universal sign for “improvise.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Singers in training spent a lot of time learning to improvise with these syllables. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

“This was a blessing in disguise,” Dad continued, but from Mom’s glance at him, I saw that he had gone off-script and was improvising. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her apron, improvised from an old sheet, was wet where she had been leaning over the scrubbing-board. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Anyway, some couples were so abandoned—flinging high and wide, improvising steps and movements—that you couldn’t believe it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jason poked his head out from behind his improvised bomb shelter of a plastic horse. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he changes his notation so conspicuously that he seems to be improvising sets of variations. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He chuckled and opened the door of the improvised oven, reaching gingerly with his gloved hand. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I bet no soldier ever thought of this one,” I said, wading back in the water with my improvised net. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The computer program wasn’t built to handle something like this, so Artemis had to improvise. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

“The men you were drinking with,” I improvised. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I thanked God, in an improvised prayer, for having created mud in His infinite and wondrous universe. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Eighth Avenue, the market carts were parked hub to hub along the curb, improvised canopies shading the withering fruits and vegetables. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Using the plank as an improvised stretcher they carefully lifted Cluny on to it. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Duley was an inspiring figure as he shuffled around, improvising various ingenious grips on his camera. Rewind TV: Complicit; Walking Wounded: Return to the Frontline; Meet the Izzards – review 2013-02-23T22:45:01Z

Its central character is a neurasthenic who loves to strum a guitar and improvise ballads but is hypersensitive to noise. Review | Philip Glass in a warehouse, with lots of goth kids 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

He improvises with glee and slides into riffs with ease. From Japan, the Heavy-Metal Kid 2010-10-20T11:24:00Z

I'm writing this on the way back from presenting Forced Entertainment's improvised marathon story performance And On the Thousandth Night ... at Hebbel am Uffer in Berlin. Tim Etchells on performance: Improv storytelling's peculiar joy 2010-04-13T11:42:00Z

Havens's improvised version of the gospel song Motherless Child evolved into Freedom at Woodstock and became an anthem of the 1960s hippy generation. Richie Havens dies aged 72 2013-04-22T22:21:35Z

Many of the Hungarian marchers were planning to improvise. Hungarians let off steam in 'silly walk' parade 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z

A scraping cello on one path could have come from the trees, a bloom of jazz near Fifth Avenue improvises with the sunlight through the tree canopy. Perspective | ‘Soundwalk’ turns Central Park into an intoxicating musical adventure 2020-09-23T04:00:00Z

Celebrating 21 years of free, improvised music, Mopomoso – the name's squeezed from the query "MOdernism, POstMOdernism, SO what?" – go on the road for the first time. This week's new live music 2013-04-20T05:00:15Z

She was working off a teleprompter for her between-song patter, but improvising frequently, and for the better. Music Review: Closer to Her Fans and Further Away From Her Past 2011-08-15T22:00:35Z

Mr. Cross said they all shared a slightly different approach to making improvised music. Nubya Garcia, Tapping Into the Past to Make Jazz for a New Generation 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z

She didn’t know what to expect, so she improvised by making fun of him. In ‘Tulsa King,’ Sylvester Stallone Tries Something New: Being Himself 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

A rollicking tenor saxophonist with his feet firmly planted in the soul-jazz tradition, Person improvises with great fluency and creativity — treating blues clichés as valid ingredients, but mixing in plenty of lyrical originality as well. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

But within that structure there is the opportunity to improvise, to be bold, to surprise, to be unpredictable. Has Newsnight lost its way? 2011-08-20T23:06:06Z

“A Love Supreme” was a realized ideal: Its four-part suite perfectly melded spiritual transcendence and physical exertion, powerful composition and openhearted improvising. What a Rare, Live ‘A Love Supreme’ Reveals About John Coltrane 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

Bones, whose improvised medical tools are barely up to the task. A Quasi-American “Star Trek Beyond” 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

They are playing a game in which an armored car traverses a Middle Eastern landscape while an instructor plants enemy soldiers and virtual improvised explosive devices in different places. Art Review: Harun Farocki Video Installation at MoMA - Review 2011-08-25T22:27:41Z

He begins to unpack, improvising a zippy unpacking song. The Screening Room: “People Are Becoming Clouds” 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z

With decades of experience, performing and improvising come naturally to Gil, and we figured we might enjoy it more if we just let things unfold. Gil Scott-Heron: poet, campaigner and America's rough healer 2010-04-16T23:08:00Z

I was at his Portland Jazz Festival concert a few years ago where he did that and even encouraged some improvising from a few willing audience members. For Women in Jazz, a Year of Reckoning and Recognition 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Across more than 30 years on the New York scene, Mr. Frisell and his semisweet, misty-eyed attack have modeled both experimentation and serenity in improvised music. The Playlist: John Prine Comes Home, and 10 More New Songs 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

The album and the skits — Sam Harris improvised all of it, including the haughty announcement that the audiobook was written by the fictional “Irving P. Neville” — became the springboard for the podcast. X Ambassadors push boundaries with new multimedia project 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

Having completed their version of the development, they execute a tempo downshift before collectively improvising in a blues mode with broad appeal. What Is American Music? Three Classical Albums Offer Answers. 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z

The Brits despite that old urban myth like teeth have the most advanced palate and a wider choice than anywhere else in the world and have never been afraid to improvise on other sacred dishes. The Sun Never Set on the British Empire, or Its Food 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

He was able to improvise in a compositional way, playing sparse, terse phrases. Holding out for a hero: Soweto Kinch on Joe Harriott 2011-07-21T21:30:01Z

Because there wasn't really a script as such, we improvised, and Mahmoud would direct us while filming. Iranian film-maker Mohammad Shirvani takes aim at weighty issues 2013-04-23T15:31:08Z

A lot of people just assume that if you're great at improvising on stage, then you're probably great on a TV show or in a movie, but those are extremely different skills. 'Rapids' rewards for Helms, Arteta 2011-02-10T23:15:57Z

Mr. Torrisi likes to wing it, coming up with new dishes by improvising with ingredients. A Little Old, a Little New for the Four Seasons Space 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z

Under a lighting truss framed by tall trees in full leaf, the stage there is a new addition: an improvised attempt to salvage this coronavirus summer by moving at least some entertainment outdoors. Provincetown: Go for the Mask Compliance, Stay for a Show 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z

But if you piece together clues dropped in a screenplay partly improvised by the actors, the story seems to span a little less than a decade. Movie Review: ‘28 Hotel Rooms,’ by Matt Ross, With Marin Ireland 2012-11-16T01:40:55Z

De Ribes never outgrew her love of improvised finery, or of a grand entrance. Haute Ticket: Jacqueline de Ribes at the Met 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

Big Ears, one of the most wide-ranging music festivals in America, proposes a unified-field theory of immersive listening; it encompasses classical, traditional, electronic, experimental, improvising and rock traditions. Big Ears 2016 Lineup Includes a Laurie Anderson and Philip Glass Performance 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

Mindful of their versatility, Mr. Griesgraber gave them room to improvise. Music Review: New Kids: One Behaved, One, Eh 2011-05-27T20:51:08Z

Beside it, Fernández's work looks improvised and static, a mortifying own goal for a space that boasts the word "contemporary" in its title. Revealed ? review 2011-04-09T23:05:39Z

Some of the fun about this show is that you get to see these moments that one suspects are either callbacks to the cabaret or improvised in addition to the scripted moments. Why we all love "Somebody Somewhere" star Jeff Hiller: "Everybody feels like they're the outsider" 2023-05-07T04:00:00Z

Valverde said he hadn’t even written down his rendition, but rather was improvising. Costa Rica priest sings public health message amid pandemic 2021-05-03T04:00:00Z

Musical questions prompted improvised responses, the planned and unplanned intermingling. The Grateful Dead jam in mostly perfect harmony in Santa Clara 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

Instead of sticking to the speech prepared for her, Perez improvised some portions to jab at Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump. Gotham awards: Helen Mirren and Rosie Perez provide gags alongside gongs 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

As they improvise weapons from pool cues and other scavenged bits and bobs, their camaraderie and newfound purpose are rather sweet. ‘VFW’ Review: Old Soldiers, New War 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

This is an intimate, improvised, almost totally plotless and resolutely non-commercial exploration of middle-class English life, which in a strange way symbolizes the predicament facing auteur-oriented cinema in general and this festival in particular. Best of Cannes: "Another Year" with Mike Leigh 2010-05-17T16:15:00Z

It is described as a “joyful, uncensored and improvised romp through hell.” Comedy Listings for Oct. 3-9 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

The first Scottish Tectonics runs for two days this weekend, a mix of contemporary classical, experimental, improvised and electronic events, with the music of famous US avant-gardist Alvin Lucier as its focus. Lana Del Rey, Mikal Cronin, The Bad Plus: this week's new live music 2013-05-11T05:00:15Z

Eisenberg added: “If I were just playing improvised music or just writing songs, it would be so boring, and not very formally revolutionary. What I really care about is being musically subversive.” Wendy Eisenberg finds meaning in complexity 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z

He also describes an inherent ephemerality to these pieces, which were largely improvised. The Magnificent Cross-Cultural Recordings of Kenya’s Kipsigis Tribe 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

There was no scripted interaction between the women: Fox improvised that line, which addresses racial and gender solidarity more adroitly than some of the film’s bombastic monologues. Vivica A Fox: 'Black Lives Matter is going to be Trump's demise' 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z

Just as important as the prepared jokes is the interplay, the improvised retort, the way you take a punch. Insult Comedy as Blood Sport: The Rise of the Roast Battle 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

Curb is almost entirely improvised on the basis of a short synopsis. Larry David: 'I'm cranky' 2010-06-25T23:02:00Z

At the heart of that challenge, Parks explains, is the variety of cannabis strains available, which continue to evolve as expert growers improvise, cross-pollinate and perfect in order to service the culinary boom. Cooking with cannabis: ‘I have a fish guy, a meat guy and a weed guy’ 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

This streamed concert is a celebration of her latest solo recording, “Armament,” which features her own improvised compositions. 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in February 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

The handclaps have the effect of making the music sound improvised, as if the girls had just stepped on the church hall stage to sing whatever's on their mind. Readers recommend: Songs with handclaps ? the results 2010-07-15T21:08:00Z

At a Los Angeles hotel Mr. Linz spent 20 minutes improvising with Mr. Segel and then performed five scenes from the movie. Arts & Leisure: New Muppet (and Movie), Leading Franchise Into New Era 2011-11-16T16:00:12Z

He does this while improvising an elaborately complex poem called a ballade. Beyond Cyrano de Bergerac’s nose – the real man behind the swashbuckling hero 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z

Although he studied Jacobean drama at Oxford, Rudd's classical background hasn't prevented him from improvising alongside club-hardened comics, a talent that serves him mightily well in "Dinner for Schmucks." What makes Paul Rudd laugh 2010-07-30T00:29:00Z

The Grateful Dead was a band that celebrated the vanishing moment: never playing a song the same way twice, letting every player improvise, singing about a sunshine daydream or a ripple in still water. No Song Left Unsung, Grateful Dead Plays Its Last 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

There were a number of scenes that we improvised. | British Starlet Imogen Poots on Acting Opposite (and Dressing Like) André 3000 2014-03-14T15:02:28Z

Mr. Glasper’s show was full of tangential, improvised funk with jazz harmony; that, a few New Orleans brass band sets and one guitar solo in D’Angelo’s performance were the closest this festival came to jazz. Critic’s Notebook: Essence Music Festival With Mary J. Blige, in New Orleans 2012-07-09T22:42:42Z

At one point in “Daddy Longlegs,” Lenny, in need of a sitter, improvises a pharmacological solution. Josh and Benny Safdie?s Film ?Daddy Longlegs? 2010-05-14T04:00:00Z

After that improvised first date, they knew it was serious. Drawn to a Jazzwoman and Her Trumpet’s Clarion Call 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z

Then Robinson, who will be joined by guest musicians, will lead the crowd through what she calls her songwriting obstacle course, an exercise of imagination in which children help improvise melodies. 8 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

Simon runs the household and improvises a menu for the Seder: meat from a dead horse, collard greens and hardtack instead of matzoh. Novel take but predictable revelations in 'The Whipping Man' 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z

Like “Hannah Montana” before it, it is knowing about the ways in which teenagers are constantly improvising, both for better and worse. Allow Olivia Rodrigo to Introduce Herselves 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

Around 10 years ago, she put away oils and brushes for good in favor of her inks and environmental materials, which include tire shreds and other improvised tools to move substances across the paper. Her Art Reads the Land in Deep Time 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

When you get on set, you do your dance as it's supposed to be, but at some point, you want to improvise, and pace left or right, and she follows, and something happens. "I wanted to be waterboarded for real," says "The Mauritanian" star on playing a Guatanamo detainee 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

To me, if I start improvising and I see people start to grin, that’s chum in the water and I’m a great white shark. Keegan-Michael Key Will Do Anything for a Laugh 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z

Like many improvised schemes, this takes some turns, and the season fleshes out the kids in a laid-back, observant character piece. The Remarkable ‘Reservation Dogs’ Runs Away Toward Home 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z

Woodlawn and Curtis were charged with improvising the roles of “women’s libbers” trying to convince a wealthy socialite played by Darling to lend some much-needed money and glamour to the cause. Behind the scenes on Andy Warhol's "Women In Revolt" 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

The mice had ruined the proofing basket, so she improvised with a colander and a dish towel. After Culinary and Literary Acclaim, She’s Moving to the Woods 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z

Situated in the heart of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, this art gallery and performance space has recently become a reliable presenter of experimental improvised music, often engaging some of New York’s top talent. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z

Much of the staging involves overhead projectors and when the light bulb on one broke during a preview performance, Mr. Godwin had to improvise, frenetically, while a couple of technicians repaired it. Review: ‘The Flatiron Hex,’ a Delirious Tale With Puppets and Ickiness 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

It’s not a tale of social woes so much as a portrait of the support systems that people develop, or improvise, to get by. Review: ‘We Are: The Brooklyn Saints’ Will Tackle Your Heart 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

To answer the question, star Kyle MacLachlan decided to share an anecdote about a legendary actor who tried to improvise on the Twin Peaks set. David Lynch Scolded Jim Belushi for Ad Libbing on Twin Peaks 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

For this performance, part of the New York Comedy Festival, members of the troupe will ask the audience to share moments that felt magical or otherworldly, and then improvise with that material. 7 Comedy Shows to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z

By the time Jolson improvised a few lines of dialogue in “The Jazz Singer,” audiences had already become accustomed to hearing actors speak and musicians perform from the screen. Video: All Talking, All Singing, All but Forgotten 2011-05-06T21:13:01Z

Someone will sing a line of poetry, or a three-note tune, or a vocal drone, and everyone will just join in, improvising, singing in harmonies. Bobby McFerrin gets vocal 2010-05-06T22:05:00Z

Orchestras across the country, already in upheaval because of the coronavirus pandemic and in the process of improvising new seasons, were asking to perform her music. Orchestras Are Rushing to Add Black Composers. Will It Last? 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z

The performers strike a perfect balance between improvising with audience members and delivering their scripted scenes, but they also spend a lot of time mugging to everyone in the room. ‘The Great Gatsby’ Review: Raising a Glass to an American Tragedy 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

In truth it was just another night's work for the octogenarian -piano star Stan Tracey, his drummer son Clark, and the unique improvising saxophonist Evan Parker – but with one big difference. Evan Parker/Stan Tracey/Clark Tracey – review 2012-07-31T17:34:22Z

Only the steady, understated naturalness of the performances, much of which were improvised, keeps the movie from coming down with that bad case of the cutes that often afflicts rom-coms. | 'Once': ?Once,? the Musical, at New York Theater Workshop - Review 2011-12-07T03:01:07Z

Fallon didn't ask for a judgment call, but from the at-home seats, it seemed like Hart's ability to improvise and his enthusiasm won out over celebrity cameos and a handful of glitter. Jimmy Fallon leads Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart in epic lip-sync contest 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

In fact, beyond a bit of improvised dentistry, his skills as a physician are rarely tested. 1912: The Year the World Discovered Antarctica by Chris Turney – review 2012-11-22T08:00:01Z

They settled with improvised tents in the central plaza, el Zócalo, and all over downtown Oaxaca, including our restaurant’s street. When we fled Oaxaca, albondigas made us feel at home 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z

But her brilliance must be noted, especially as it manifests in one improvised duet with Turner, inspired by a Norma Miller routine, “The Queen Swings Basie/Trickeration.” LaTasha Barnes: Let the Circle of Influence Be Unbroken 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z

And she revealed a lot of other things about herself in the very obviously improvised bit. 'Khaleesi' appears on 'Tonight Show' to promote Kristen Wiig's movie 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z

Then Mr. Abraham improvised short lists of words, designating specific movement ideas, which two of his dancers immediately illustrated. Dance Review: Kyle Abraham’s ‘Radio Show,’ at 92nd Street Y 2014-03-17T22:24:10Z

She added: “I figure I will improvise when the time comes … Some things are better without rehearsal.” Betty White’s fans feared her death for years. But the ‘Golden Girls’ actress wasn’t afraid of dying 2022-01-01T05:00:00Z

Though Vikander praises Ritchie’s dab hand at injecting “a lot of wit and irony” into the script, a good deal of the humor was improvised by the actors with the director’s encouragement. Guy Ritchie Cracks the Spy Genre with 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.' 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

But when I do improvise, something amazing always happens. Frugal Traveler Blog: 5 Gems That Weren’t on My Itinerary 2013-04-10T14:39:19Z

Gurdjieff record, in which the late Russian philosopher improvises on a harmonium. R.E.M.’s Peter Buck needed a new label. The one he chose won’t take your credit card. 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

At this year's festival, most of the films shown were accompanied by an improvised piano score and the musicians had tricks up their sleeves. Pianists play it again at the silent movies 2011-04-12T14:25:01Z

But a chair seat is thin enough that you could probably improvise by breaking off a round toothpick and using a blunt end to tamp with. What to do when the seat won’t screw back into the chair 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z

You get a hundred variations on the concept of “apartment building,” from random stabs at Miami Beach luxury to amorphous heaps that look as though they are slowly being improvised from dust and putty. When Cars Ruled the Night: New York City, 1974-1976 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z

This was fortunate: according to a new book by Nicole LaPorte, Crowe apparently so hated Gladiator's climactic line – "And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next" – that he improvised an alternative. Ridley Scott: Creator of worlds 2010-05-10T20:30:00Z

When Brenda went to a ticket counter and conveyed through improvised sign language who she was, she was promptly ushered down creepy corridors and staircases and eventually outside. Bad Trip: Travel’s Misadventures 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

Gallagher writes that “the guitarist’s recovery epitomizes the ability of the brain to improvise—to compensate for damage by wiring new connections.” Weekend Reading: Marriage and Mental Illness, Electric Lady, and More 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z

At first, your instinct is to talk so much because it's an improvised movie. Anton Yelchin "Crazy" about improv movie 2011-01-24T02:19:17Z

A lot of her most uproarious lines were improvised — which meant a few extra takes, because she kept cracking up her co-stars, but it was all worth it. Tiffany Haddish and Mary J. Blige are among nine movie scene-stealers from 2017 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

Using a combination of British Sign Language, improvised gestures and facial expression, it's easier than you might think. Signing along for deaf Glastonbury-goers 2010-06-27T18:00:00Z

At first, TV’s improvised solutions provided an intriguing aspect of the coronavirus pandemic — the rare opportunity for viewers to watch the creative class snap into action and come up with some notable workarounds. Perspective | Stars are working to stay afloat with Zoom and improvised efforts. But it’ll never match TV’s liveliness. 2020-05-03T04:00:00Z

In a Q&A we did afterward, she said she initially wasn’t aware that there was a big picture in my mind; she thought it was more improvised. L.A. artist Marnie Weber reflects on why monsters hold such power for women 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

The violinists fought back, breaking up their playing into needling, improvised notes and sounds, and suddenly it was a free-for-all, each side subsumed into the other’s aural space. Music Review | Glissando bin Laden: Violins Face Off Against Laptops in a Friendly Improvisational Duel 2010-03-08T06:36:00Z

He is accustomed to improvising on his own. A Designer Who Makes Impossibly Lifelike Flowers From Everyday Materials 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

"They are improvising with each other in the same ways as classic jazz bands like Coltrane and Miles Davis. They are masters of what they do." Single Wing Turquoise Bird flashes back to its '60s light shows 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

You can walk with them for as long as you like, and you may hear words from your conversation become part of an improvised collective song. Okwui Okpokwasili Wants You to Slow Down and Walk With Her 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

And vice versa, to bring some of the spirit of an improvised music session into a recording of written music, to get some empathy into it, so that it doesn't become an academic-circle record. Manfred Eicher: the sound man 2010-07-16T23:05:00Z

It was slow and subtle, largely improvised, and filled with jokes about Romantic poets, sticky toffee pudding and a glut of Michael Caine impressions. Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan: 'Work-wise, Steve's terrific. On a personal level, appalling' 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z

He was equally impressive as a sonero — a singer who can improvise rhymes and melodies over Afro-Caribbean dance rhythms — and a romantic crooner, delivering suave, smoldering boleros. Cheo Feliciano, Debonair Salsa Singer, Dies at 78 2014-04-19T05:31:10Z

But rather than cease production, she decided to improvise and turn the camera on herself. A New Subject for a Veteran Documentary Maker: Herself 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z

“A lot of people thought it was all improvised, out of control and chaotic, but everything was absolutely measured,” Mr. Ollé said. From Street Theater to Wagner on the Opera Stage 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

The tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis and the drummer Chad Taylor both improvise in a way that runs rampant and discursive, but their music stays firmly centered in their bodies. 15 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z

At the show’s end, the band would return for an entirely improvised encore. Listening Booth: Thailand’s Shadow Music 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z

"People start singing about 'This is a great moment, that we're together in one place,' and then they start improvising with the lyrics, exchanging ideas." T Magazine: Island Records 2012-11-16T18:00:23Z

They were improvising their dialogue — the father and son. Gaspar Noé on dementia in "Vortex," witches in "Lux Æterna" and the "shamanic side to cinema" 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z

And at that moment, the open square became an improvised theater. The Composer Huang Ruo on Illusion and Betrayal in ‘M. Butterfly’ 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z

The New Wave tried to achieve a more improvised style free from the constraints of classical cinema. 2010-01-11T19:20:00Z

That doesn’t surprise the actor Paul Rudd, who met Mr. Malco when the two improvised a full-length movie, “The Chateau,” in 2002 and went on to work together in “The 40-Year-Old Virgin.” How Romany Malco Became an Early Online Star 2012-04-13T17:30:00Z

It looks like something improvised, but there’s so much work behind it. When ‘Y Tu Mamá También’ Changed Everything 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z

I told the writers about the curious Afghan boy I watched step on an improvised explosive device. Finding solace through helping a TV show understand war 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z

There were extended episodes where Roumain improvised winding strands of frenzied yet lyrical lines over orchestra music that maintains a respectful distance. Review: The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra Returns, With Gusto 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z

"You can't," the spin bowler warned the spin doctors, "expect cricketers to improvise a foreign policy for you." Bob Dylan's political road ? and Sesame Street's 2011-04-10T18:30:00Z

How much of Your Sister’s Sister ended up being improvised? Director Lynn Shelton on Breaking the Hollywood Glass Ceiling and Making Emily Blunt Blush 2012-06-13T10:00:39Z

For all that techno-drama, it wound up being Mitchell who took the early, demonstrative lead in improvising — with some fluid, songful passages that added a depth of lyricism to the boisterous material for Signal. It’s Alive! It’s With the Band! A Computer Soloist Holds Its Own 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z

His speech at the union was not one of his virtuoso performances in terms of rhythm, improvised cadences, silences and eruptions. Malcolm X at Oxford: 'They're going to kill me soon' 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z

Nine of the UCB’s regular actors and actresses, on this night only, improvise a comedy scene with their life partners, who do not do comedy for a living. 9 Last-Minute Valentine’s Day Ideas 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

One such moment was an improvised piano interlude, played by Mr. Mitchell in a two-handed, crab-scuttling counterpoint, on a composition wryly titled “Numb Trudge.” Matt Mitchell’s Jazz Gallery Concert Showcased New Material 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z

Although Klein paid homage to Newton by depicting the improvised shrine at the site of the German photographer’s fatal car crash in West Hollywood in 2004, he owes a more obvious debt to Bourdin. Photography’s Road From Edgy to Excess 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z

Anappara improvises further still, inhabiting the inner world not just of one child but of a growing number of children who are lost to their families. Who Cares About One Missing Child in an Indian Slum? Another Child 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

Gilles improvises; not knowing a lick of Persian, he invents words, eventually using the names of prisoners kept in a logbook as mnemonic devices to develop his fictional tongue. ‘Persian Lessons’ Review: Performing for His Life 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z

Such Tweet Sorrow is being improvised by a cast of six RSC actors from a story grid, taking in audience responses and real events, with author Tim Wright helping out Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet get Twitter treatment 2010-04-12T12:36:00Z

“Arborescence,” a recent, entirely improvised album on ECM, finds him delving more into his instrument and imagination, with an elegant rigor that he’ll also display here. Jazz Listings for Nov. 14-20 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

Even when we worked on Shakespeare, we improvised. Ariane Mnouchkine and the Théâtre du Soleil: a life in theatre 2012-08-10T14:31:00Z

The New Ear Festival, now in its fifth year, is a weeklong showcase for improvising musicians, sound artists and performers of various stripes. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

Pianist Brad Mehldau's solo in "Sleeping Giant" is nominated for best improvised jazz solo, but unlike his previous nominations he has gone electric. Essential tracks: Lesser-known but just as worthy Grammy nominees 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

But instead of Mr. Adams’s concert-music vision of Schoenberg, mixed with tunes of what he has called “good cartoons,” Mr. Bettison sounded as though influenced by songs improvised by children on some sugar-strewn playground. At This New-Music Festival, You Can Count on Variety 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

Andrew Lawrence might improvise five minutes from a piece of chewing gum on the floor. Edinburgh comedy notebook: What to see (or not to see)? 2011-08-22T13:17:49Z

As they rehearse, Noble encourages the young women to improvise — to riff like musicians, using their bodies as their instruments. A rhythm travels from black sororities to a Paris runway — and now to Seventh Avenue

The piece is to include ad lib sections for solo clarinet, violin, cello and trumpet; musicians improvising these sections were selected on the basis of worldwide video auditions. Harris Theater throws visionary namesake a gala birthday bash 2011-03-08T15:37:00Z

As is typical for White, the set was heavily improvised. Jack White's rules and explorations | Concert review 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

They were just improvising in their own language, and that's also shows exactly what we said about Terry, that he's open to this. Stars of Malick's "A Hidden Life": When saying no is "enough to change the world" 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

In most houses just a single pianist would play, usually improvising, and often folding in songs or classical pieces. Music Review: Keaton?s ?Sherlock, Jr.? With Stephen Prutsman Score - Review 2011-09-25T21:53:27Z

His most feral moment was the closer, “Damaged I”: Rollins improvised the lyrics and Spot had him do only two takes — the first one was the keeper, Spot said. Glen ‘Spot’ Lockett: The Punk Producer’s 10 Essential Recordings 2023-03-07T05:00:00Z

"To improvise in 1860s vernacular with 1860s colloquialisms was one of the most difficult things I've ever been asked to do," Long said of his role. Justin Long reclaims his acting mojo in "Distance" 2010-09-01T22:57:00Z

While the songs were written prior to hitting the recording studio, the group allowed themselves to improvise and evolve during rehearsals. Yo Yo Ma turns to bluegrass music for new album 2011-10-21T17:45:42Z

More than 20 years after its founding, the Vision Festival — celebrating improvised music and its cousins across artistic disciplines — remains one of New York’s most essential art events. The Best Live Jazz Performances of 2017 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z

Settlers had moved into East Texas and improvised their own rules with scant regard for Native American inhabitants. The True Story of the Texas Rangers 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

In the piece, last shown outdoors and on rooftops in 1973, one dancer performs improvised gestures that are repeated by the next nearest dancer. Dance Review: Red Chain Reactions Against the Sky 2011-06-12T21:51:39Z

At the end of it, and having had "a total blast", they locked themselves in a studio for three days and started improvising some more. Thom Yorke: 'If I can't enjoy this now, when do I start?' 2013-02-23T19:00:00Z

Kaplan remembers “a bunch of improvising and experimenting and switching instruments” at that session. Yo La Tengo: Indie rock’s standard-bearer is still changing the formula, 30 years in 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z

Munby’s “Merchant” underlines the exotic nature of Shylock’s Jewishness in gentile Venice: an improvised scene has father and daughter arguing in Yiddish. Jonathan Pryce puts a new stamp on Shylock 2016-07-25T04:00:00Z

“I thought, How does she do this? She was so good at understanding that I had to get my sea legs in being able to improvise on the radio.” Margaret Juntwait, the Voice of the Met on Radio, Dies at 58 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

This is not exactly an haute cuisine process here, feel free to improvise. The Rochester garbage plate gloriously lives up to its name 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Much of the actual movement material is generated from watching Ms. Eyal improvise in the studio and distilling her movements to their most elemental parts, Mr. Letheren said. Israeli Troupe Has Hearts Wide Open 2013-07-19T18:52:05Z

"The film feels like a documentary because I did not give them any lines to learn. They were improvising their dialogue." Gaspar Noé on dementia in "Vortex," witches in "Lux Æterna" and the "shamanic side to cinema" 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z

I improvise by mixing a hodgepodge of black and red and fluorescent yellow. Review | What is the strange allure of Bob Ross? I painted my way to an answer, sort of. 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z

Instead, it felt like an improvised harmony just to showcase that gorgeous voice again. Alice Smith wows at Howard Theatre

Are those moments pre-written or do you have a chance to improvise? Why do we love "Abbott Elementary" star Janelle James for being bad? It's simple: "I'm hilarious" 2023-02-14T05:00:00Z

His first designs, conceived about four years ago, were improvised, whipped up for a handful of friends needing beach cover-ups that would see them into town. | Inspiration: Jonathan Simkhai: Coaxing the Clothes From His Head 2013-07-17T20:28:17Z

Conti also pioneers improvised ventriloquism – think Whose Voice Is It Anyway? – and puts words into the mouths, not only of her dollies, but of audience members, too. Nina Conti 2010-08-25T20:30:00Z

Like jazz, Korean traditional flute music can be highly expressive, rhythmically jagged, richly colored — and improvised. Korean traditional flute as expressive and exciting as jazz 2011-05-11T19:25:04Z

He'll be hawking the format at the international TV market Mipcom in October, and he has an improvised medical drama "nearly ready to pitch: '24 Hours in A&E: what goes on behind the curtain?'" Why Suspects is revolutionising crime drama 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

Mailer played a presidential candidate who feared assassination and Torn his half brother in the highly improvised film, which was to conclude with the killing of the candidate. Rip Torn, Emmy winner and Oscar nominee, known as a trouble-maker,... 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z

The quartet worked their way through several familiar tropes of improvised comedy in confident fashion and managed to keep the advertised product at the forefront of the action throughout. The risky business of using a live broadcast to plug a product 2013-06-19T10:51:51Z

Since the release of his 2015 album, “In the Moment,” McCraven, a drummer, has become one of improvised music’s vanguard bandleaders. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z

I’ve done movies with literally no budget and the dialogue was all improvised, like “Nasty Baby,” which I made in Brooklyn with my friends. Kristen Wiig Would Have Said Yes to One Line in ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ 2020-12-25T05:00:00Z

His music continued to explore repetition, drones, improvised lyrics and startling subject matter, but he also revealed his roots in rockabilly and sang an occasional love song. Alan Vega, Punk Music Pioneer and Artist, Dies at 78 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z

Die-hard fans wanted the floating spaceship of their nightmares, one stocked with mutilated zombies, improvised blowtorches and zero-gravity spectacles. Scare Me Once? Great Game. Scare Me Twice? Great Remake. 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z

It might be improvising, or maybe not: in “Soft as Chalk,” when she landed down on the word “lawlessness” six different times, she consistently used her softest voice for the song’s most unsettling word. Music Review | Joanna Newsom: At Town Hall, Singing in Tongues, Some of Them Strung 2010-03-20T00:19:00Z

That first vintage was improvised with a frenzy of excitement and chaos that would define Mondavi. Fifty years ago, Robert Mondavi transformed Napa Valley — and American wine 2016-07-23T04:00:00Z

This time, Vedder was explicit: Wearing a tan shirt emblazoned with a coat hanger, he improvised some pointed commentary during the bridge. Pearl Jam's "Ten" at 30: A raw, dynamic debut that's both sonically and emotionally exquisite 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z

As the story unfolds against the backdrop of the improvised cafe, the audience meets characters from Eritrea, Syria, Sudan, Iraq and Iran, who describe their harrowing journeys while confronting treacherous living conditions and impending eviction. ‘We’ve Experienced the Stories We’re Telling’: ‘The Jungle’ Is Back. 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

He was injured during a previous tour in Iraq when the vehicle in which he was riding was hit by an improvised explosive device, the lawyer said. Family of suspect in Afghan killings 'shocked' 2012-03-16T05:39:00Z

The market, which appears stall by improvised stall late each afternoon, feeds hundreds of people. The Nightly Feasts of Little Guatemala, Los Angeles 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z

Debuting Friday on Hulu is this documentary about the improvising hip-hop group that those and others founded before Miranda created “In the Heights” or “Hamilton.” New this week: ‘Psych,’ The Chicks album, ’30 Rock’ reunited 2020-07-13T04:00:00Z

A Humvee Mr. Junger was in drove over an improvised explosive device, rattling those on board, and he later tore his Achilles’ tendon jumping out of the line of a firefight. The Carpetbagger: Documentary Drama at the Oscars 2011-02-02T23:23:01Z

For those who are older, these sites recall the improvised internet of their youth, in the days before mobile optimization and beta-tested user interfaces brought a sleek uniformity to modern web design. The Latest in Web Design? Retro Websites Inspired by the ’90s 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z

The most inventive and amusing feed is Jamie Newton's, a chronicle of improvised sculptures assembled from common studio tools, household objects, light and shadow. One bed photo per day, for years and years: Mesmerizing moments from an art show about daily life 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z

These appear in the book alongside staged photographs: actors dressed as Ms. Markosian’s family members, on set or on location, directed by the photographer or improvising in character. Is It Soap Opera or Real Life? It’s Both 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

The choreography is meant to appear tossed off the body and improvised, yet it’s not. Review: An Incandescent Journey Through 20th-Century Dance 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z

And so I decided to improvise my own walking tour of nearby Millennium Park, once a mess of railroad tracks and, since 2004, more than two dozen acres of postmodern architecture. Single in Chicago 2012-07-06T18:26:33Z

Once I had written the character and I knew who he was, I would just begin improvising as him. Nasim Pedrad finds her inner boy as "Chad": "It’s such a universal notion to just want to belong" 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

The dancers, moving arms and bodies against each other, look as if they were improvising, deciding the right way to dance — a metaphor for the delicate dynamics of their relationship. Review: William Forsythe’s Wonderful Love Letter to Ballet 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z

Together, these three sad sacks do little and talk about less — while still managing to step on one another’s lines — occasionally egged on by the burps and wails of the soundtrack’s improvised songs. Movie Review : ‘Oconomowoc,’ Set in Small-Town Wisconsin 2013-04-18T23:53:00Z

He also organized an original improvising language, both in and out of traditional Western harmony and jazz convention. A New Focus on Eric Dolphy, in Washington and Montclair 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

As I complete projects, I'm left with a slew of options to improvise with: spices, grains, legumes, and flours from all over the world. Jenn de la Vega has 4 separate pantries (at least) 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z

The process has been an unusually long one; Ms. Taylor-Corbett began working with the dancers in August, asking them to improvise characters and try out imaginary situations. Not Quite a Revival, But Still a Sinful Hybrid 2011-05-06T22:09:27Z

In the latter part of his career he could be heard with a wide variety of bands and agglomerations on the fringes of the jazz, improvised and alternative music scenes. Lol Coxhill obituary 2012-07-11T17:19:52Z

In contrast to the dense, improvised articulation of Glover's beats, Astaire creates a more formal sound, as if his feet were carrying the melody as well as his voice. Savion Glover takes on Fred Astaire 2012-06-27T16:02:05Z

It was really just improvising, and memorizing, and performing at my little piano recitals.” Chains Clink, Water Splashes: A Composer’s Beautiful Noise 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

“In theory when a musician improvises over a chord progression, they should be hearing the main melody even though they are playing something else,” he said. Coltrane by De Keersmaeker, Freewheeling but Structure Intact 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

If Brando’s performances are towering in their greatness, Monroe’s characters feel airy and improvised, as if she were playing herself. It’s all fake: How the leaked call between Taylor Swift and Kanye West exposes the artifice of celebrity culture 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z

It’s chili vodka, which was presented to the hostess of this anxious, improvised soiree earlier in the day by a friend who explained that the liquor allows you “to enjoy the pain” of its spice. Ben Brantley on London Theater, Where Characters Drink to Dull the Pain of Life 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z

For almost 13 years, this one-room venue in Alphabet City has been New York’s truest and coziest — if not its comfiest — home for experimental improvising. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-02-22T05:00:00Z

Barely 20, he was a double threat even then: writing compositions of coiled energy and smartly woven rhythmic interplay, and improvising fiercely, cutting sharp turns and slipping into sly glissandos. Listen to the Essential Terence Blanchard 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

At 83, his tone is as firm and delicate, and his improvised lines as long and mellifluous, as they were back in the 50s. Heath Brothers: Endurance 2010-05-29T23:05:00Z

His mother’s dress is loosely scribbled — expansive and improvised, which seems appropriate to her warmer personality and more active encouragement of her son. David Hockney: A Life in Drawing 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

When a group of completely language-deprived deaf children were gathered at a school in Nicaragua in the 1970s, their improvised communication soon became a fully functional sign language like any other. Sounds of silence 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

By the early 1960s, the New Yorker announced that the quartet was "the world's best-paid, most widely travelled, most highly publicised, and most popular small group now playing improvised syncopated music". Dave Brubeck: 1920-2012 2012-12-05T18:49:19Z

In this truly improvised theater piece, eight people show up at a speed-dating event, but the actors don't know who all the characters are. 31 best bets at Bumbershoot 2012 — plus ticket info 2012-08-30T19:01:05Z

Instead of Mr. Shorter acting as equal contributor to the sound-picture at nearly all times, here his improvising was restricted to a series of smaller window openings built into the large-ensemble arrangements. Review: Wayne Shorter Goes Solo With the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

On set, he is freewheeling — improvising dialogue and shouting directions from the sidelines — and adds impulsive flourishes, like the scene with Ms. Lawrence lip-syncing to “Live and Let Die.” The Carpetbagger: In Oscar Voting, All Politics Is Local 2014-02-27T23:11:37Z

And so while the very word “gang” conjures fear in one context, in another it merely represents an improvised civil society organization. National Portrait Gallery exhibit features an exploration of Latin self-identity

As the book begins, his face, after years of surgeries, is a surface of scars and improvised features made of bones and skin repurposed from elsewhere. Why ‘Wonder,’ the Movie, Can’t Best the Book It’s Based On 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z

The structure of “Horse’s Mouth” is fixed: a participant relates a personal anecdote and then performs a standing phrase of movement, set or improvised, for 16 counts. Dance Review: ‘The Men Dancers: From the Horse’s Mouth’ at 14th Street Y 2013-01-13T21:22:55Z

Two full, improvised rhymes from Q-Tip summed up the evening’s significance. Jason Moran and Q-Tip usher in the Kennedy Center’s hip-hop era. 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z

This, in Williams’s highly ritualized world — mornings spent studying film reels and improvising at his Steinway; a turkey sandwich and glass of Perrier at 1 p.m.; afternoons devoted to revisions — was initially disorienting. John Williams, Hollywood’s Maestro, Looks Beyond the Movies 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z

Then, instead of being locked alone in a booth, the actors recorded the voices together on a soundstage, wearing cowboy hats and using doofy props to improvise. The Carpetbagger: ?Rango,? Oscar Nominee From Industrial Light, Began in Pencil 2012-02-15T23:12:47Z

Wearing radio microphones hidden in their costumes, the actors sang to live piano accompaniment, improvising first to find their way into the songs. They Dreamed a Dream: Les Misérables Is a Whole New Kind of Movie Musical 2012-12-04T17:00:00Z

The songs generally didn’t shift toward bridges or develop through contrasting sections, but repeated and unfolded through patterns of improvising individually or in groups. Thomas Morgan’s New Trio Plays at Seeds 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

This novel’s elastic format — short hotel reviews — gives Mr. Moody a lot of room to improvise and play, and play he does. Review: In ‘Hotels of North America,’ Rick Moody Examines the Middle-Aged Male in Free Fall 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

Brennan recorded the album alone, improvising with focus and forbearance, leaving plenty of cloudless space around her notes and sometimes using effects to create echo or layers of electronic sound. Billie Eilish and Rosalía Join Eccentric Forces, and 12 More New Songs 2021-01-22T05:00:00Z

That’s very exposing, you know, asking people to improvise that stuff. Need to Fake an Orgasm? There’s an ‘Intimacy Choreographer’ for That 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

When various performers improvise to this montage, it is a movie that is also a score for its own soundtrack. Art Review: Christian Marclay: Festival at the Whitney Museum 2010-07-08T21:49:00Z

Pure, improvised expression of sentiment enticed and bewitched me. Musician Khyam Allami on how the 'ud changed his life 2010-08-05T21:30:00Z

She even had to fight with her crew when she discarded sections of her script and allowed the actors to improvise. Alicia Duffy: A film of one's own 2010-05-16T20:35:00Z

“From working with Sigourney on the recordings, I really got a sense of how important this character is to her. The way that she worked on the lines and improvised unquestionably made them significantly better.” Weaver, ‘Alien’ cast reprising roles in new game 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z

When I arrived at the club to learn that Mr. Charles was performing an all-request, completely improvised live concert, I dreaded having to endure what sounded like a foolish exercise in pop hubris. Music Review: Gregory Charles at Caf? Carlyle - Review 2011-09-13T20:12:21Z

He reminds us that good improvising is about chance-taking and suspending disbelief as much as it’s about mastery. Wayne Shorter, Jazz’s Abstruse Elder, Isn’t Done Innovating Yet 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

The text on each page, in this improvised solution, would run in different directions. Adam Thirlwell: a revolution of the book 2012-06-15T21:55:17Z

The idea is to be conversational and offhand, so the guys improvise part of the time — but winging it doesn’t always work. Character assassination among friends in ‘Winners and Losers’ 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

The idea was to improvise an album with the same fiery expanse, with samples from Davis’s electric period of the late 1960s and early ’70s as the binding agent. 53 Years After Miles Davis’s Album, a Fresh Spin as ‘London Brew’ 2023-03-28T04:00:00Z

Using mostly found, slight materials, including fragments of furniture, supplemented by touches of white paint, Gomes improvises a touching poetic, economical art out of almost nothing. Best Art of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

We improvised with each other by the end.  Definitely not Harry Potter anymore: Daniel Radcliffe on “Swiss Army Man”’s absurd bromance, prosthetic butt effects and his desert island albums 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

Mr. Litton raised his improvised baton again, the pianist began again — just a hair slower — and the dancers and music were in sync. The Conductor Andrew Litton, Finding a Different Tempo 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z

Making it, he added, was kind of like an “adrenaline dump” for him, especially as so much of it was improvised.“On this film we knew we weren’t taking on previous American literature,” he said. The Carpetbagger: ‘12 Years a Slave,’ ‘American Hustle’ Take Top Honors at the 2014 Golden Globes 2014-01-13T05:14:45Z

Her 2017 video “We hold where study,” which was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art, features four dancers using their sense of touch to improvise choreography over a looping saxophone soundtrack. An Artist’s Queer Take on ‘Moby-Dick’ 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z

In a Turing test where the Continuator traded licks with an improvising human pianist, expert listeners were mostly unable to guess which was playing. Iamus, classical music's computer composer, live from Malaga 2012-07-01T11:56:51Z

That film was a showcase for Bell’s particular gift: extra-dry delivery of wildly strange dialogue, much of it improvised. Jillian Bell: ‘What if I enjoyed what I was doing and focused less on how I looked?’ 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z

Feel free to improvise with other kinds of cookies and fruits. A four-ingredient dessert that tastes like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

Since sheet music didn't exist in the early years of the organ, organists improvised. Notre Dame's new pipe organ bears history's weight 2013-05-04T06:21:10Z

A collection of pieces largely for an improvising quintet, it borrows the syntax of modern jazz, but pointedly alters the inflection. New Music: New Music by Passion Pit and Micachu & the Shapes 2012-07-23T22:18:24Z

Anyone who thinks it’s improvised, film the two most interesting people you know, walking and talking. Richard Linklater: ‘someone’s living back there, and he’s murdered somebody’ 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z

Hogg’s shooting style – no script, just structure – required him to improvise at length. 'I'm an expressionist nihilist at heart': the dark allure of Tom Burke 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z

The evening closed with a freely improvised set, featuring the powerhouse young tenor saxophonist James Brandon Lewis and the 83-year-old tenor player Kidd Jordan. Jazz Giants Dave Burrell and Archie Shepp Retrace Their Five-Decade History 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

Early in the taping of “Entourage,” which ran for eight seasons on HBO starting in 2004, he hogged the camera and filled dead air with a barrage of hastily improvised banter. Don’t Confuse Jeremy Piven with Ari Gold 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

It involves computer-generated rhythm, Yoruba traditions of rhythm and divination, and improvising. Critic?s Notebook: Four Young Pianists on the Rise in the Jazz Scene 2011-10-06T22:37:04Z

The finale opens with six minutes of verbal sparring, followed by a seven-minute battle that utilizes such improvised weapons as hanging light fixtures and the chopping blade of a food processor. ‘The Hunt’ Showdown: 7 Months of Training; 7 Minutes of Combat 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

In her essay in the catalog, Ms. Harrison wrote that they interacted “much as jazz soloists take cues and improvise.” | Long Island: ‘Larry Rivers: Collaborations and Appropriations’ Is at Stony Brook University 2012-10-27T04:59:07Z

“People would come into ninth grade already knowing how to read music and play in a section and improvise,” Mr. Greenblatt said. Alt-Rock Hub, Purring With Jazz 2010-08-26T19:16:00Z

In earlier eras there was composed music, which was always played from the score, and there was improvised music. Critic’s Notebook: Memorization’s Loosening Hold on Concert Tradition 2012-12-31T23:18:16Z

So persuasive was Ms. Schnabel’s performance that, during the filming, a fellow actress mistook her improvised tirade in an Atlantic City hotel room for genuine hostility, Ms. Russo-Young recalled. The Many Faces of Stella 2010-12-29T21:45:19Z

We had some working scripts, but we improvised a lot and I really liked that. How Steve Buscemi Built an Entire Show Using a Park Bench 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z

Ms. Sanchez, a pianist, improvises with crisp articulation and muscular command. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z

When Ms. Young asked him to deliver a poem, he improvised one, with rhymes. Dance Review: This Time the Trouble Isn?t Wicked Stepsisters 2010-09-05T22:20:00Z

With its mixture of thunderous percussion and improvised call-and-response vocals, it's the Indian Ocean answer to the blues. Christine Salem: bringing the devil's music to Womad 2013-07-18T16:51:00Z

Many of the performances feel lethargic, and the cast awkwardly hiccups through the dialogue of even the smallest bits of improvised comedy. ‘Mother Courage’ Review: Selling Her Wares Amid the Havoc of War 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z

Being able to draw out our scenes and improvise. "We need to laugh": "Hey, Viktor" is a much-needed send-up of Native dysfunction and Hollywood 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere in the family there are Cantorial singers, but Zahner-Isenberg was the first to pick up a guitar, the first, he says enthusiastically, "to improvise". The upside-down world of Avi Buffalo 2010-04-01T21:40:00Z

If he had been an improvising instrumentalist alone, Mingus would have been a jazz legend simply for his bass playing. Great moments in jazz: Charles Mingus's The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady 2010-09-06T15:46:00Z

Specifically, the concert will focus on his “Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall” recording from 1959, with the musicians, led by composer and keyboardist Wayne Horvitz, expanding and improvising on Monk’s originals. Your week in Seattle music: Alt-J, Nas and more 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

He was later editor in chief of Cahiers du Cinema, the bible of the "New Wave" movement, which shunned the constraints of classical cinema to create a more edgy, improvised style. 2010-01-11T18:58:00Z

For Oliver Stone, we improvised to high heaven on that show. Juliette Lewis on acting: "I'm able to tap into very primal or dark ranges of emotion" 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z

The long shadow of the Grateful Dead has hovered over improvised music for decades, and entire scenes have been built in the original band’s wake. Dead & Company Said Farewell, but the Scene Is Very Alive 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z

The musician also improvised on themes from three Beethoven symphonies and the piano piece "Fur Elise" for the recital in the composer's birth city. U.S. organist Carpenter bends rules of performing 2013-09-16T20:23:19Z

“You’d have no idea what would happen because it’s was all improvised, so you’re in the door and out the door, and it’s just an experience,” she said. A Choreographer Dancing With Ghosts, and the Future 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

“What happens within that is improvised and real,” he said, “so it adds a nice kind of tension — what is real and what is not real.” The Carpetbagger: Video: Nick Cave at Sundance 2014-01-23T21:20:47Z

But Lattimore handles her harp like a solo guitarist, improvising around contemplative melodies with the help of pedals that warp her crystalline tone and seem to bend time. Mary Lattimore: Has Harp, Must Travel 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

Oh, look: Last year’s book of tunes for small jazz combo seems to have attracted some of the best improvising players in the world. Review: A Tour Through the Hyperactive World of John Zorn 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z

You hear it in his broad sound and his raspy long-tones and chaotic spirals of improvising between chords: seriousness, awareness. Review: Pharoah Sanders at Baby’s All Right in Brooklyn 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

Anyone who has seen Woods improvise live knows he’s one of the best out there. “Playing House” is the best female comedy no one you know is watching 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

"So Gone," for instance, was almost entirely improvised, Scott said. Jill Scott still in shock over No. 1 "Light of the Sun" 2011-07-29T18:19:51Z

He built a 10-piece band, Living by Lanterns, and joined forces with the vibraphonist Jason Adasiewicz; they arranged some themes transcribed from a largely improvised and never released Sun Ra 1961 trio session. Playlist: New CDs From El Potro de Sinaloa and Frank Kimbrough 2012-11-11T04:50:13Z

Those odd, improvised or challenging locations sometimes inspired choreographers to make their most creative choices. Venice Dance Biennale: in praise of the small-scale festival 2013-07-03T11:21:17Z

The presenters and winners seemed to have more room to improvise and put their own spin on the evening - but mercifully, the show itself still managed to wrap up on time after just two hours. `The Help,' Dujardin win at lively SAG Awards 2012-01-30T11:50:22Z

Some of which was on the page, some of which was improvised, some of which I don’t know exactly what it is. A Word With: Pat Metheny and John Zorn: A Word With: Pat Metheny and John Zorn 2013-05-19T21:41:39Z

When he was just starting out, and couldn’t buy the right parts, he improvised by extracting metal pieces from shoe heels and book bindings. He’s the Brusque Mr. Fix-It for Mexico City’s Accordions 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z

He speaks a thoroughgoing blues language throughout, even as he’s sliding in and out of key, tearing his tones, improvising in cuts against the grain and suggesting alternatives to the harmony and the rhythm. The Playlist: Lost (and Found) John Coltrane, and 10 More New Songs 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z

There’s also Bing Crosby improvising a monologue about liverwurst sandwiches, some bombs falling on World War II Europe, and legendary composer Irving Berlin painting himself into lyrical corners resolved by rhyming “finger” with “humdinger.” Perspective | How I learned to stop worrying and love ‘White Christmas’ 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

Pilsener sitting in tanks fermented at higher temperatures than usual, so the brewers improvised and turned it into a style known as California common, which gets its characteristic fruity flavors from warm fermentation. Beer of the Week: Port City Derecho Common 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

Led by the violist Melanie Dyer, this improvising collective performs original music that swirls together into an all-consuming flow, then becomes submerged in group play. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z

Polli sometimes found that acting, particularly improvising, stripped him down to the bare essentials, in much the same way as base-jumping. Into the void: the fast life and shocking death of a wingsuit-flying superstar 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z

We're more like an ensemble of soloists who combine their individual sounds to rework existing pieces or compose or improvise our own. One from the heart: Charles Hazlewood's Paraorchestra 2012-06-27T18:31:01Z

How much is scripted on the show and how much is improvised? ArtsBeat: Amy Poehler on the Return (Finally) of 'Parks and Recreation' 2011-01-20T18:55:28Z

SS Golden Mean has Shorter quoting Dizzy Gillespie's Manteca, and Pegasus shifts from an opening motif like an old Mahavishnu Orchestra hook, through a sequence of shifting melodies and and breathtaking improvising. Wayne Shorter: Without a Net – review 2013-01-31T22:15:02Z

But Bouchareb deliberately eschews such matters, preferring to concentrate on revealing things through small incidents and to trust Blethyn and Kouyaté to explore their characters together, often apparently improvising before the camera. London River 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z

She said she improvised in many of the scenes. Lupita Tovar, Star of Spanish-Language ‘Dracula,’ Dies at 106 2016-11-19T05:00:00Z

In the process, the team has had to find ways to improvise on slim budgets. How 'Arrested Development' and a Santa Ana residency led composer Lisa Bielawa to make an online opera 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z

That leaves local residents to improvise a fight against this evil entity and the hordes of old, naked, wispy-bearded “elves” who serve as its faithful, head-lopping guardians. Hidden presents: 10 Christmas movies you might not have seen 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z

The concept also emerges from the creation of a recent piece, during which she and the other performers improvised together in song, listening and riffing. Okwui Okpokwasili Wants You to Slow Down and Walk With Her 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z

For this exultant and meticulously patterned work, Halvorson invited the string quartet into her standing sextet of improvising players, creating her richest ensemble sound yet. Best Classical Music Tracks of 2022 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

The story team was credited with a lot of the brash humor the film is known for, but the actors were also given space to improvise and play. ‘Shrek’ at 20: How a Chaotic Project Became a Beloved Hit 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z

Performed without a break, the concerto is in three sections, set off by two completely improvised cadenzas. A 'beast' of new Icelandic music will premiere tonight at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z

“He improvises compact solos of perfect length: long enough to develop a few ideas, one giving rise to the next, but not so long that inspiration flags.” Buddy DeFranco, jazz clarinetist whose career lasted more than 70 years, dies at 91 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z

And I thought if I acted in it, maybe people would think I was improvising it or something, and got a writing credit just as a token. Greta Gerwig on Frances Ha: “I Feel Like an Adult” 2013-05-02T21:23:51Z

“They’re here some days,” improvised Grace, who, like other women in this story, is not being identified by her full name, because of the sensitivity of the topic. The long five minutes: Abortion doulas bring comfort during a complicated time 2017-11-27T05:00:00Z

The album presents Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations in sequence, played with classical fidelity; but after each variation comes an improvised response. Music: Jazz Records Inspired by Paul Motian 2011-12-04T04:03:06Z

The famous slap, where Tibbs retaliates against a racist landowner, wasn’t improvised, though, as has been suggested. How we made In the Heat of the Night 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z

My decision wasn’t premeditated or preordained, but rather an improvised refusal. It’s My Job to Watch. With George Floyd’s Death, I Had to Look Away. 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z

We don’t improvise very much in the theater because there’s a script for us to run, and everyone’s expecting you to say what’s in the written thing. ‘Ratatouille,’ the Musical: How This TikTok Creation Came Together 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

He wanted freshness, freedom and a fertile atmosphere of ongoing, improvised problem-solving. Perspective | What makes a great art school? Haystack has the elusive answer. 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z

The writer and director Martin McDonagh is skilled with words, but he said the most surprising moment in this scene came from improvised action. Watch Scenes From These Eight Best Picture Nominees 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z

If the door opens inward, “Flip-flops are great for improvised door jams,” he says. One year after the San Bernadino attack, learning to survive is a routine part of life 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

There is one scene in The Post that Spielberg tells me he improvised on the day. Steven Spielberg: ‘The urgency to make The Post was because of this administration’ 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

You and Julia would improvise recipes on the air, but that seems different from a lot of the scripted shows today. Jacques Pépin named first recipient of the Julia Child Award 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z

During a photo shoot for the project, Mr. Harrell was improvising on his trumpet, and Ms. Wiles began improvising in her point shoes. BalletNext and Abraham.In.Motion Experiment With Jazz 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

Since he is exceptionally crafty at executing these jobs, part of the fun is in watching him improvise. ‘Spark,’ the Latest Dystopian Novel From John Twelve Hawks 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

"I threw away the thought of Tchaikovsky and others and sat at the piano and started improvising," said Lewis, sitting in his downtown Chicago apartment, his piano nearby. Jazz star Ramsey Lewis turns to composing 2011-04-13T12:01:09Z

The ties in this month’s new books — between sisters, first loves and family members, real and improvised — don’t break. Newly Released Books 2011-06-15T22:35:38Z

Yet a pianist is also instructed to play tone clusters behind an improvised trombone solo. ‘It’s Anthony’s Time’: A Composer Gets His Due 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

“I am used to participating in festivals but this one is completely different because everything is improvised,” said Cecile, a French artist. Hundreds of artists join festival in Algerian region hit by civil war 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z

He uses well-trained actors and lets them improvise, but then regains control in the edit room, where he hacks the plot until we barely see one. Iranian film-maker Mohammad Shirvani takes aim at weighty issues 2013-04-23T15:31:08Z

The first liberation that the patients enact is itself artistic—the casting-off of the conventions of movie logic and realistic drama in favor of the improvised and freewheeling spirit of Mack Sennett comedies. A Lost Masterwork Is Found: Thomas White's “Who's Crazy?” 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z

Scheduled for release early next year, it features his partners — the bassist Jakob Krupp and the drummer Obi Jenne — improvising, while he plays, as written, excerpts from works like the Eight Concert Études. A Composer Shows the Way to Give Classical Music Swing 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

I want to keep playing the piano and do all the different things that I’ve gotten to do on the show — comedy, acting, improvising. Paul Shaffer, 'Late Show' Bandleader, on Saying Goodbye to Letterman After 33 Years 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

Here are two young improvising musicians and bandleaders to watch: Gray is a drummer with a busy, pattering style leavened by his awareness of space and dimension. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z

They were encouraged to improvise or talk over each other's lines as would happen in real life. Bernadette Lafont obituary 2013-07-26T16:10:22Z

He wasn't able to decipher some of it, and several of the 27 groups he interpreted as improvised acronyms with no antecedents in the military record. 5 historic codes yet to be cracked 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

And that disorder, his movies suggest, is really a more natural order, nothing to be afraid of: if you can improvise a little, go with the flow of history, there are pleasures to be had. André Téchiné, Director of ‘Unforgivable’ 2012-06-24T01:23:01Z

I just want people to feel like they can improvise in the kitchen. "Struggle Meals" star Frankie Celenza: "The struggle is that we live in the future" 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

Cocteau Twins was actually the first music that I ever improvised violin over, it's so open and ethereal that it allowed me space to play. Meltdown 2012 – Joan as Police Woman: 'I've watched Antony Hegarty grow into a political force' 2012-07-29T23:05:05Z

It’s very improvised, but it’s been directed a bit. Recalling Happenings Events on Eve of Pace Exhibition 2012-02-05T05:07:07Z

"Playing a guy who has no filter is an interesting format when you are playing a scene with others where you can improvise a lot." Bradley Cooper seeks Silver Linings 2012-11-20T01:41:32Z

What makes it all work, though, is that these debaters aren’t merely improvising, which would have resulted in lazy comedy, at best. Review: ‘Debate Wars,’ Where Nothing Is Too Frivolous for Argument 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

Soon Mr. Clay was in a recording studio improvising father-daughter dialogue and weeping like a baby into Lady Gaga’s blond mane. Does Society Need Andrew Dice Clay? 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

When a security guard’s wand began beeping, Mr. Baron Cohen improvised that it was because of his defibrillator. Sacha Baron Cohen: This Time He’s Serious 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z

While the sculptures are not improvised, exactly, they incorporate ideas from everyone in the group and evolve as they are built. ?The Ungovernables,? the New Museum?s Triennial Show 2012-02-14T23:17:32Z

Number of improvised explosive devices, or IEDS, from Iraq and Afghanistan on display that the FBI investigated for clues to the bomb makers’ identities. Nissan rigged with explosives in Times Square now displayed at Newseum 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

“So we said, ‘Let’s make him improvise for an hour with Catherine Keener,’ just to make him nervous,” Apatow says. Jonah Hill Babysat My Two-Year Old Son 2011-11-17T13:28:42Z

Mr. Zorn, a saxophonist and seminal figure on New York’s improvising avant-garde, has staged “Cobra” and “Hockey” — the game pieces presented here — many times through the years. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z

With no time to read the script in advance, he was told to improvise, which proved handy once he got the job and filming started. Alan Ruck Is Ready to Leave the Roy Family 2023-05-15T04:00:00Z

“When Keith was forming his improvised music, these two composers had already written a lot of that, so he felt at home there, that it was part of his musical language.” ?American Mystic? Marks Alan Hovhaness?s Centennial 2011-11-04T20:26:09Z

Others are scrambling and improvising, trying to convert wholesale businesses into retail shops overnight. Restaurant Closings Inflict Collateral Damage on Other Businesses 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

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

They jointly oversee the series along with Alyson Levy, Mr. Lee’s wife, write all of the scripts together and direct all of the episodes together; there is very little improvising on set. ‘The Heart, She Holler’ Is Back on Adult Swim 2013-08-30T17:10:24Z

"We are absolutely not conditioned to say the lines in a specific way, but they allow us to improvise a lot," said Banderas. First Look: New `Shrek' premieres at Tribeca 2010-04-22T06:38:00Z

The only planned part of the evening will be when the two sign copies of the magazine, so improvised antics seem inevitable. Spare Times for April 17-22 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

The show follows the Brockman family — mom, dad, three young children — and is partially improvised, with an easy naturalism that feels instantly familiar and intimate. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z

Little Britain star Walliams hailed Carroll, who tweets from the account @fatjacko, calling him a "superstar" for improvising the start of his act. Attraction win Britain's Got Talent after judges are pelted by eggs in live final 2013-06-09T09:24:55Z

The wedding itself was moving, and I loved the characteristic, improvised way it came together, under the direction of Zeek, handing out jobs as if picking out positions for a family softball game. The Morning After: A Wedding. And a Funeral? 2012-02-29T21:21:01Z

Mr. Brown also anchored a separate set with the keyboardist Marc Cary, improvising over rhythm loops made in real-time. Review: BRIC JazzFest in Brooklyn Wraps Up With a Mesh of Styles 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

What unfolds each night is mostly improvised, although recourse will be made at some point to the karaoke machine that sits off to one side. ‘The Blind Date Project’ Brings a Web Meeting to Life 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

Now the pair reunite from time to time for an informal night of very funny improvised comedy. Comedy Listings for Dec. 18-24 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

Sharing her improvised dance sessions also allowed her to connect directly with fans. Britney Spears Has Always Fought Back. By Dancing. 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

The album might represent a narrow soundscape for some listeners, but these are improvising at work, constantly reinforcing the sense of a dynamic relationship in action. Trevor Watts & Veryan Weston: Dialogues in Two Places – review 2012-07-26T22:44:01Z

Independent filmmaker Joe Swanberg's latest film, "Uncle Kent," makes its local premiere at Northwest Film Forum this weekend, featuring the filmmakers' trademark improvised dialogue and emphasis on how technology and social media affect human connection. Theaters launch a basketful of classics, from 'Phantom of the Opera' to 'E.T.' 2011-06-30T19:38:06Z

Depending on what the musician heard, he or she then varied the music played in response, choosing from various composed phrases or, it sometimes seemed, improvising. Review: A ‘Sonic Great Wall’ Breaks Down Musical Barriers 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

Mr. Abrams started the night with a solo piano set, disciplined and continuous and thoroughly improvised. Music Review: Honoring Heroes of Jazz, With Words, Silence and Improvisation 2010-06-25T23:44:00Z

She improvised lines, researched specific cultures and traditions of her hometown, selected her own wardrobe and even suggested plot points that made it into the film. She’s the Secret Weapon in a Film About the Thai Cave Rescue 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z

“It is hard to find California now,” Didion wrote, “unsettling to wonder how much of it was merely imagined or improvised.” Holiday magazine: The rise and fall of the glamorous mid-century travel publication 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

At the front window, Hunter, a chef, had improvised a makeshift butcher’s table – a cherry-coloured cutting board atop a table ordinarily reserved for diners. Chef who butchered a deer leg in front of vegan protesters: 'We won't change' 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

Composers show off by writing breakneck melodies, sudden meter shifts and quick-change structures; musicians show off by executing every whipsaw maneuver with pinpoint accuracy and improvising with a flourish. Music Review: Jazz Fusion Heroes of the 1970s Resurrect Their Intricate Dynamics 2011-08-14T21:20:13Z

About 100 Afghans and foreigners gather around a makeshift stage with improvised lighting and a sputtering sound system. Afghan indie band rocks Kabul in post-Taliban era 2010-07-06T06:56:00Z

Mr. Lindbergh approached the job as a spontaneous, largely improvised adventure. Pirelli’s Reality Check: Portraying Beauty at Any Age 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

In the opening moments of the demo that she originally submitted to Ms. Plexus, Ms. Kirsten said she “was using phonemes to improvise this little fragment that repeated over and over.” Bec Plexus’s New Album Is a Digital Confession Booth 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

She also praised Mr. Anthony for bringing to the shooting process the same sense of drama and ability to improvise that he exhibits on stage. Marc Anthony, Master of Crossover, Relives Boyhood Ballads 2010-06-18T22:09:00Z

He’s played his share of standard jazz repertory, and can improvise fast and fluidly, showing all kinds of learning. New Releases by Optimo, Anita Wilson and Dexter Johnson 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z

“The key to what I like to do is to improvise.” Lew Soloff, Trumpeter for Blood, Sweat and Tears, Dies at 71 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

Frustrated by his lack of success, he decided to improvise. How Salvation Army’s red kettles became a Christmas tradition 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z

Having that and a start in rave culture, and being raised at a time when hip-hop was being birthed, I think all of that finds its way into the way I improvise. Choreographer Kyle Abraham on race, the MacArthur curse and dancing to Kendrick and Kanye 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

What Jacobs provides are highly condensed and highly idiosyncratic sketches, interspersed with a running account of the bad weather, bad roads and bad behavior he encounters along his increasingly improvised itinerary. A Journey Down South America?s Spine 2011-06-03T16:52:20Z

The music came from “Double Demon,” the group’s first album, to be released next week by Delmark; each piece contained written lines, by Mr. Mazurek, that eventually got pushed aside for eruptions of three-way improvising. Critic?s Notebook: New Jazz That Keeps an Ear Trained on the Past 2011-05-06T23:26:31Z

After Braun read from script pages and riffed in a few improvised interactions, the “Succession” team was confident it had its Greg. How the ‘Succession’ Star Nicholas Braun Elevates Cousin Greg 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z

Howard tries to sidestep his creditors and their violent enforcers with instantaneously improvised lies that have to be timed with a comedian’s precision to elude their grasp. The Mesmerizing Chaos of “Uncut Gems” 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z

The videos, like the sketches in "Portlandia," were outlined but largely improvised. How politically correct is the Northwest? Watch 'Portlandia' on IFC and learn 2011-01-20T00:45:11Z

It was impressive, then, to witness Mr. Reynolds improvise an eloquent and subtly colorful work, which he titled “Beginner’s Mind.” Review: Todd Reynolds, Live and Recorded, at the Jewish Museum 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

Being onstage with an artist like Alessandra gives you so much freedom; you can almost improvise, because she can always understand and follow what you are doing.” Alessandra Ferri Makes the Most of a Dance With Father Time 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

While filming the largely improvised independent feature film, she spent hours each day with her director and co-star working out dialogue and scenes. How actresses who are just starting out get pressured into ‘creepy’ nude scenes 2018-03-08T05:00:00Z

The treatment covered what happens, but it had no dialogue – we wanted it all improvised. How we made The Blair Witch Project 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z

So I had to think on my feet and improvise: 'You're right, but is it OK if I pretend to be for the next hour?' 'Why should severely disabled kids be denied theatre?' 2012-12-21T14:30:08Z

Though she is leaving a professorship at the University of California, Irvine, Ms. Mitchell received most of her training not through academia but amid the outsider-run creative economy of Chicago’s improvised music scene. Nicole Mitchell to Lead Jazz Program at University of Pittsburgh 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z

Similarly, you may feel that our Hedwig is improvising as she riffs on subjects that now include the history of the Belasco, social media and Anderson Cooper. Theater Review: ‘Hedwig and the Angry Inch’ Stars Neil Patrick Harris 2014-04-23T02:00:14Z

The trick is that you have to adopt a fake identity, which you have to make up and improvise when you create your profile. Frieze London 2012: the speed-dating approach to art fairs 2012-10-10T17:21:45Z

Haneke said he rarely rehearses his actors and doesn't allow them to improvise. Globe-nominated foreign filmmakers discuss craft 2013-01-13T00:16:04Z

Her dancing to Bill Haley and the Comets in and on a bar is as memorable as his improvised piano playing in a club as a way the characters express their emotions. Six new films that could be Oscar contenders for Best Foreign Language Film 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

He was improvising on the level of sound, as much as notes, and he’d already started bringing in new, more freewheeling collaborators to join his quartet. John Coltrane’s Unearthed Live ‘A Love Supreme,’ and 12 More New Songs 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

Right now we seem to be witnessing the institutionalization of improvised music in New York, part two. Popcast: Jazz’s Takeover of Hallowed Museum Spaces 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

“I love improvising—it’s why I’m still singing today,” he said. Tony Bennett and Diana Krall Croon and Contrast on New Duet Album 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

It meant a new kind of institutional acceptance for downtown New York experimentalism, but also felt like a goodbye to Manhattan’s last truly outsider space devoted to improvised music. The Decade in Jazz: 10 Definitive Moments 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

Because the film’s tone is so conversational, and the acting style so naturalistic, many people assume that much of the dialogue is improvised. The Carpetbagger: Adapting Big Questions for the Screen 2013-12-18T22:44:56Z

Most of the work’s fragmentary duets and trios have an aimless look, like that of improvising dancers unsure of what to do next. Review: Rebecca Stenn’s ‘Riparius (Belonging to the River)’ in Brooklyn Debut 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

From there, she improvises, channeling whatever expression she hears and mixing in high-tech digital instruments alongside the traditional Haitian drum. “Vodou is like a gun” (and that’s how you spell it) 2013-03-10T00:00:00Z

Later that afternoon, Fleming arrived at the Shed for a three-hour rehearsal, where she and the musicians discussed harmonies, tempos and spots for improvised solos. Renée Fleming Was Back Onstage. Here’s What Happened First. 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

I admitted that we’d improvised for a sheet because we hadn’t figured out until morning that the item we’d set aside — thinking it was a tent divider or mosquito net — was actually a mattress sheet. Camping without the hassle: New service rents you all the gear you need, plus the car 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

The fact that these amateurs improvise without a script doesn't strike anyone — the characters as well as moviegoers — as alarming as it ought to. 'Raw Cut' leaves little to fear 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z

An improvising drummer and laptop musician, Mori first arrived in New York from Japan over 40 years ago, becoming a major player on the no-wave scene centered in downtown Manhattan. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z

“Then we improvise and she chooses what interests her and we build up the piece,” he said. Roma Tell Their Stories in a Dance-Theater Work From Berlin 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z

De Forest’s art is predicated on abundance, whether of narrative options, interpretive possibilities or pictorial incidents — all of it improvised. Roy De Forest’s Greatness Shines Even in a Virtual Display 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z

When I filmed the second one where I improvised, I was thinking to myself, "Oh my God, look at all this stuff I'm making up. This is so much fun." Comedian Jeff Garlin isn't afraid of political correctness 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

The morning after Joanna leaves, he disastrously improvises a breakfast of French toast and coffee, and loses his temper around his son, not for the last time. Kramer vs Kramer at 40: a flawed film that remains a deserving classic 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z

His solo performances included Human Being, Hell Bent, Original Sin, Resurrection and the improvised show Frank, which was commissioned by the Venice Biennale. Dancer Charnock dies of cancer 2012-08-02T16:03:04Z

You bring a different energy and you have to improvise with the crowd, and really respond to what they want. Glastonbury preview: Part one 2013-06-25T06:12:44Z

With his left hand he formed the lopsided bass-clef vamp of a piece called “Avenging Angel”; with his right he improvised complex annotations, firing them off in boldface or sleek cursive. Lonely Voyage of Player,Piano and Audience 2011-07-02T04:00:25Z

He directed a superb nonfiction feature, “City of Ghosts,” about an improvised news organization trying, in 2014, to document atrocities inflicted by Islamic State foot soldiers on the Syrian city of Raqqa. ‘A Private War’ Review: Dateline Truth, Somewhere in Hell 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

The music that he presented on both nights, however infused with spontaneous actions, was the furthest thing from improvised. Music Review: Tri-Centric Modeling Event Honors Anthony Braxton 2010-06-21T22:59:00Z

Ms. Irglova said most of those scenes had been either improvised or shot with little rehearsal, and that she and Mr. Hansard — neither of whom had acting training — basically riffed on their own personalities. Arts & Leisure: The Film ?Once? Becomes a New York Musical 2011-12-04T03:13:02Z

One way to understand the music of the improvising electro-acoustic quartet Glissando bin Laden — especially if you let the name sink in — is as a fight between rigid law and individual choice. Music Review | Glissando bin Laden: Violins Face Off Against Laptops in a Friendly Improvisational Duel 2010-03-08T06:36:00Z

The girls improvised the dialogue while two cameras rolled, giving Rocks a documentary-style feel and a tang of authenticity. Rocks stars: meet the teenage cast of the hot new British film 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

“This guy can improvise, he’s funny, he’s really great with delivery. And he’s proven even in those six-second Vine videos that he has dramatic capability,” Baker says. Serendipity strikes for Simon Rex as an adult-film antihero 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z

The improvised ritual is a retelling that also grasps at a redeemed future, and its impulse echoes in the novels of Miano, Moore and Makumbi. Turning the ‘Curse of Ham’ Into a Blessing 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z

The stretches of Solange’s and Sampha’s improvised grooving that follow the choreographed sequences present not an interruption but an easy crescendo. The Profound Power of the New Solange Videos 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z

Reminiscent of improvised Swedish folk or central Asian textiles, it convinces the viewer they are the product of immediate, dopamine-driven intuition, not stale, ordering intellect. Review | Hilma af Klint, the woman who painted the future 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z

The program includes the intense improvised style he played at Meany last month, called sanjjo, as well as more stately court music. Korean traditional flute as expressive and exciting as jazz 2011-05-11T19:25:04Z

The other soloist was a computer program — called Voyager — that can listen to live performances in real time and offer improvised responses. It’s Alive! It’s With the Band! A Computer Soloist Holds Its Own 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z

Since Kathak is the most rhythmically complex of Indian dance forms, and often built around improvised conversations between dancers and musicians, Ms. Dandekar was the most hindered by recorded music. Dance Review: ‘Dancing the Gods,’ a Festival of Indian Movement 2014-04-29T20:20:23Z

And in “Succession,” he evokes a classical music tradition in which a composer doodles at the piano to improvise on a theme, putting it through permutations based on mood and form. The ‘Succession’ Soundtrack Is Fit for a Concert Hall 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z

In the fifth movement’s high point, he and violist Erin Reilly traded improvised blues choruses. Wynton Marsalis debuts a stirring ‘Blues Symphony’ 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

"Oh fair maid, oh buxom one – she is a bonny lass," runs one verse she improvised for the show. All the King's Fools: 'Disability is deep in comedy's DNA' 2011-02-24T10:18:28Z

Backed by a live band, she will perform fully improvised songs based on her conversations with audience members. 4 Comedy Shows to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

Chinese laborers in the 20th century were generally not allowed to be buried at Lima's Catholic cemeteries, forcing them to improvise burial sites, according to Peru's Culture Ministry. At ancient pyramid in Peru, remains of 20th century Chinese laborers found 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

The singers move as one, but with a freedom that often makes the music sound improvised. Taking Philip Glass to a place he need not go 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

“What everybody is doing is improvising on the spot,” he says. Perspective | The tango is back. And it’s never felt more vital. 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

As a teenager she would improvise by shopping in men’s stores, or by buying a dress and wearing it as a T-shirt. Popular Japanese Comedian Wants to Bring Her Plus-Size Fashion to the U.S. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Led by the French horse choreographer Bartabas -- the only name he uses -- they improvised circular ballet movements to the music of Mozart. Salzburg's Mozart festival features his music. And dancing horses 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z

Using them is no different from improvising a marinade with ingredients you use every day, or brushing a piece of fish with mustard and brown sugar before sliding it into the oven. Asian Essentials for Easy Weeknight Meals 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z

Here, the need to improvise, if only a little, puts Hall visibly on his toes. Rich Hall – review 2013-03-07T17:46:17Z

So we put Shakespeare aside and just started improvising scenes about a breakup, obsessing over a boyfriend, sharing secrets with friends, confessions about cheating. The World Takes On Shakespeare at London Festival 2012-07-04T21:37:11Z

"Since Felix wanted to build the film's expression around Allan, he invited me to freely influence the script. We started to improvise and test various physical and verbal expressions." On the lam with 'The 100-Year-Old Man' 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z

And though  was completely improvised, he says the crazy antics of over-involved parents are a fact of modern kids’ sports. Little League Parent Problems: Tips from Comedian Jeff Garlin 2013-07-12T16:12:11Z

He had to be led to his harpsichord and could only improvise. Handel and me 2012-11-30T22:55:12Z

Speaking of his elegant, aggressive improvising on that record, the bassist Andy Gonzalez told the historian Richard Davies that if music students “study that solo, they will know what the ‘swing’ of son is.” Chocolate Armenteros, Trumpeter in Afro-Cuban Tradition, Dies at 87 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z

The standards Darn That Dream and Stella By Starlight are captivating reinventions, the latter turning into a kind of whispering clamour of improvised counterpoint at the end. Mick Goodrick/Wolfgang Muthspiel: Live at the Jazz Standard 2010-04-15T22:30:00Z

He improvised long poems in his notes and listened to jazz while writing, letting language bubble up in his psyche and onto the page. Roberto Bolaño and the Beat Connection 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z

David Antin, whose improvised performances, which he called “talk poems,” introduced a radical new form into American poetry in the 1970s, died on Oct. David Antin Dies at 84; Poet Created a New Performance Style 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

Even if the performance clearly was more rehearsed than improvised, there was no denying the velocity and headlong momentum of Green's unison lines in both hands. The maturing pianism of Benny Green 2011-05-20T14:27:56Z

“Arborescence,” an improvised solo piano album on ECM, finds Mr. Parks, at 29, delving into his instrument and imagination with an elegant rigor. Oct. Fall Pop Music Preview: An Abundance of Rhythms and Styles 2013-09-09T16:03:09Z

Most of the actors were not professionals, and there was a lot of improvising. Olivier Assayas on Something in the Air: 'A rock concert, a party, a riot – these are the rites of passage' 2013-05-16T16:02:00Z

At her shows, she improvises songs that are later uploaded onto the site for sale. Innovative musician Imogen Heap to play the Paramount 2010-06-11T01:10:00Z

“It was the system he hated,” he said, “because he felt it destroyed all possibility to be creative, to work intuitively and to improvise.” Celebrating Robby Müller, Who Created Look of Indie Film Classics 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

“We Are Freestyle Love Supreme” documents the improvised hip-hop show that Miranda and several of his “Hamilton” collaborators regularly put on before “In the Heights” altered Miranda’s trajectory, and which they recently reformed on Broadway. At Sundance, Lin-Manuel Miranda shares the spotlight 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z

Obsessed with the search for home, he made music, whether with The Band or as a solo artist, that improvised a map for vagabonds without a precise set of directions. How Robbie Robertson's hidden Indigenous and Jewish heritage influenced The Band's mournful songs 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z

Other images show the improvised abortion tools that women described to Abril directly: rat poison, a forty-pound rock, a grapevine stalk, bundles of herbs, a clothes hanger, a steaming-hot bath, a flight of stairs. Looking at How Abortion Restrictions Endanger Women’s Lives 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z

Inside the room she shared with her husband, Joy, and their twin toddlers, Toma hoisted her sari up to her knees, and settled down on a stool improvised from a handful of bricks. In Asia, Tastes of the Sea 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

He's certainly at his best when improvising, and his travel episodes are perfect for this. The Most Riveting Host in Late Night (and the Most Overlooked) 2017-11-05T04:00:00Z

From these improvised beginnings arose a troupe of about 40 dancers, mostly all Finnish. The Finnish National Ballet at 100 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z

The road was a sea of teenagers in black, their faces hidden behind the heavy fabric of improvised balaclavas. First love on the front lines: Coming of age in the Hong Kong protests 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z

Ms. Fuller’s process is ebulliently transparent, alternately planned and improvised — and eminently satisfying. Jess Fuller: ‘Planet Without a Body’ 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Running concurrently with it was Trip Metal, approximately 100 times smaller: a first-time, and perhaps only-time, festival of largely nondance music, experimental or improvised or freaky or aggressive, in small clubs and cafes. Made in Detroit, Differing Music Models 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

But it's interesting to know, since the original lines she's improvising on concern the power of the imagination. Ali Smith: Style vs content? Novelists should approach their art with an eye to what the story asks 2012-08-18T15:00:00Z

Murray would largely improvise the film’s famous “It just doesn’t matter” speech, and at one point, Reitman got a closer look at the actor’s copy of the script. The greatest role of Bill Murray’s life has been playing Bill Murray 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z

In the robust finale, in which chattering high-hat and rumbling timpani paced Mr. Jones’s racing flurries, you longed for the more dynamic drive of an improvising jazz drummer. Music Review: New Juilliard Ensemble in 2 Premieres - Review 2011-09-25T21:55:41Z

Her cast, along with her main studio assistant — a lanky, heavily tattooed guy named Cole — eats in the center of the studio, seated on improvised chairs made from things like riding saddles. T Magazine: The Art of Eating 2014-05-09T15:23:37Z

After the concert, Hot Chip fans asked Thomas how much the band had practised together – ignoring his protestations that it was all improvised. About Group: Alexis Taylor swaps Hot Chip for jazz improv 2011-03-31T21:29:00Z

It was a little system that we sort of improvised but was working really well.Parlá: | The Cuban Connection 2012-12-07T14:00:26Z

Whether at the hodgepodge feast of the holiday or the improvised nature of a Tuesday night meal, lively, refreshing wines — that’s the acidity — enhance the occasion. 12 Wines for Thanksgiving and Beyond 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

But even though he can play fast, Priester says he’s always preferred playing slowly — taking the time to listen to and improvise beautiful melodies that evoke emotion. 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

These were then worked on with actors who might improvise the more unclear or unconvincing moments. Royal Court's New Plays from India: snapshots of the subcontinent 2012-11-09T14:53:47Z

It kept me on my toes: I would always be prepared, but it was like improvising. Meet Rebecca Ferguson, the Scene-Stealing Star of Mission: Impossible 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

The way she leaves room for her backup to improvise echoes the exchange of affection that the song promises. 12 New Christmas Songs for a Vast Array of Holiday Moods 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z

Some penguins improvise solos; others hit the hefty downbeat in perfect unison, like squat Rockettes. Happy Feet Two: Mr. Miller's Poppy Penguins Save Their Own Planet 2011-11-17T21:05:35Z

I thought about the college friend who improvised dizzying jazz piano compositions, spun heady, wild prose and tumbled into addiction sometime after we graduated. Matthew Perry's death reminds us what we need to be doing right now 2023-10-31T04:00:00Z

Working with a loose, partly improvised script, the film’s young actors drive its endearing rhythms, combining easy laughs and slapstick with an unforced profundity. Stream These Five International Films Now 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

Polyphonic group improvising was central to early New Orleans jazz, and the joy of hearing horn players trade and haggle over melodies has always been part of the tradition. Marta Sánchez Finds Beauty in Loss With a Refreshed Quintet 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

To watch online videos of the Chiara or Parker quartets perform from memory — four people seated onstage in a semicircle — creates the impression, however illusory, of a spontaneous, improvised conversation. Critic’s Notebook: Chiara Quartet Records Brahms by Heart 2014-03-28T21:55:47Z

But on the other hand, we would improvise a lot. Stars of Malick's "A Hidden Life": When saying no is "enough to change the world" 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

Instead, Kahane performed his own improvised variations on "America the Beautiful." A surprising L.A. Chamber Orchestra concert features two Wolfgangs' music — and a rare clarinet 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

Seven Colors performed a long improvised jam at Chop Suey a few months ago, and a recording of that is above, with Henderson on flute, vocals and percussion. Late notice: Seven Colors at Cairo, Friday 10/28 2011-10-28T17:37:06Z

The improvising composer-performers Henry Threadgill and Anthony Davis have been among the winners of the Pulitzer Prize for music in the last five years. Orchestras Looking to Broaden Horizons? Start Improvising 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

Fred had this amazing ability to improvise in rhyme and meter the same way I do at the keyboard. Tonys 2015: Composer John Kander 'channels' his late partner, lyricist Fred Ebb 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

"Hanna" is almost a terrific movie, or a partly terrific one, but all its giddy, improvised wonder resolves into nothing more than a ruthless, symmetrical story about a murderous monster. "Hanna": A ruthless, arty "Sucker Punch" 2011-04-07T20:03:00Z

Nichols and May moved to New York, where they made a commercial hit out of their double act, performing still-funny sketches followed by an improvised scene. In the World of Comedy, Improv May Now Be More Important Than Stand-Up 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z

The vibe is affable, inclusive and egalitarian; the performer singing lead might call on another player for an improvised solo, but grandstanding is mostly unheard of. From City Folk, Toe-Tapping Country Sounds 2011-02-24T21:28:59Z

He said Mr. Carell improvised a good deal in his scenes, and the editor chose to use moments when the actor was searching, and perhaps sometimes failing, to find the right beat for his character. Below the Line: Editing ‘The Big Short’ 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z

But most of the stuff people continue to quote was all stuff that I improvised. Fran Drescher reveals the role she turned down out of principle: "Who am I if not my word?" 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

We know that when people engage in improvised kinds of dance it helps them with divergent thinking – where there's multiple answers to a problem. Peter Lovatt: 'Dancing can change the way you think' 2011-07-30T23:05:56Z

“Sometimes artists have a concrete plan, but for this art fair I improvised after Taka sent me the statement about his hybrid concept,” Ms. Yamashita said. A Prehistoric Sculpture Inspires a Tokyo Gallery 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z

We can call one another, set the phones down and improvise. Tonys 2015: Composer John Kander 'channels' his late partner, lyricist Fred Ebb 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Attendees improvised their hey-I-know-you reunions in the rows through a mix of elbow bumps and weird waves and salutes. Review | Going to my first concert of the pandemic felt like preparing for battle. Then I got there. 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z

She tells me she cut her teeth doing improvised theatre after graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in 1990. Why Suspects is revolutionising crime drama 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

One roll unravels from the ceiling and across the gallery floor like an improvised dream narrative. This week's new exhibitions 2011-07-15T23:07:37Z

That afternoon, the two friends arranged the pictures on Sendak’s drawing table and, in a state of creative flow punctuated by wild bursts of laughter, began improvising the story. A Playful, Posthumous Picture Book From Maurice Sendak 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z

Research on jazz musicians and rappers who were improvising creative work on the spot showed that when they enter that coveted flow state of creativity, their brains were exhibiting these signs. 8 tips to help you generate great ideas 2013-12-03T16:26:00Z

In their orchestral works, they sometimes ask the musicians to improvise, too. Orchestras Looking to Broaden Horizons? Start Improvising 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

She did the same thing in her improvising: on a new piece, “Four Hours,” her use of distortion felt purely exploratory, as if she were troubling the waters to see what bubbled up. Music Review: Tomas Fujiwara and the Hook Up at Jazz Gallery 2010-04-30T20:54:00Z

There she studied with the influential pianist Paul Bley, renowned for his wandering, dreamlike approach to improvising. Satoko Fujii, a Pianist Who Finds Music Hidden in the Details of Life 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

A few days in, however, Stiller responded to one of the wife’s rants with an improvised tirade of his own and the show’s producers and cast liked it. Seinfeld star Jerry Stiller dies aged 92, son Ben pays tribute 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z

Instead, the group improvised based on his piano/vocal demos. Hot Chip and Spiritualized members team up for new album 2011-02-04T12:54:09Z

In May, she was onstage improvising in the company’s first post-pandemic program, and next month, her group and Second City are collaborating on a show. Chicago Improv Was Dead. Can New Leaders Revive It? 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z

Josh Heald is a really funny writer, so he was on set at all times coming up with new jokes, and we all improvised a lot. “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

From the Venetian masters to Bach or Handel to Mozart, Beethoven or Brahms ... they all improvised. At 'Structured Impulse,' expect the unpredictable 2012-02-02T21:16:07Z

Her sculptures require high design and fabrication, but the lines and textures on their surfaces are improvised. An Artist’s Gateway to Freedom and Possibility 2022-11-10T05:00:00Z

Green says the way she delivered certain lines during her mostly improvised audition was “terrifying.” How 'Paper Towns' Could Turn Cara Delevingne Into a Movie Star 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

They also improvised a lot, sometimes in direct communication around notes, chords, or tonal centers and sometimes in parallel paths. Music Review: Anthony Braxton at the Kennedy Center 2012-12-17T05:23:04Z

Already, then, Mr. Starling is both channeling Yeats’s original play and improvising, to create a remake that chases its own tail. Simon Starling: Modernism Gazing Into the Past 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

“She improvised alone for hours, no two nights the same. Willing to make herself super vulnerable, and therefore also super fierce,” she wrote over email. Arca Once Made Electronic Music. Now She Builds Worlds. 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z

He added, “There are all of these amazing players now who are really fluent and expert in both performing highly detailed notated music and improvising creatively across a broad range of musical contexts.” A Musician’s Turn to Improvisation Bears Fruit 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z

That confident spirit of leaving things to chance will probably be a regular factor at the Earshot festival’s six-week journey through improvised sound art. Experimentalists take center stage at Earshot Jazz Festival 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

On other days two performers will be doing "more relaxed and improvised" performance and more scaled down versions of the main action. Turner prize show set to delight and baffle at same time 2012-10-01T23:43:00Z

So, on the new series he made the takes longer, letting the actors breathe and improvise. In ‘Mr. Corman,’ Joseph Gordon-Levitt Looks Inward and Asks, ‘What If?’ 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z

In a pinch, Rabin has used watered-down soy sauce and once had to improvise with cream and gravy browner on the set of a popular Canadian brand. WD-40 and microwaved tampons: secrets of food photography revealed 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z

Ebert urges his readers to improvise with the recipes and ingredients, saying there are no rules. Not eating, but still cooking: Ebert pens cookbook 2010-06-29T22:33:00Z

Later, when Cambio asked about a possible Web series, Wright said his improvised auditions might be the basis of something. Backstreet Boys manager seeks new young talent via web audition 2010-12-09T01:12:00Z

Hollywood comedies are hardly funny anymore, because the producers, directors, and writers of comedies have set up a template—largely improvised talk about sex to fundamentally ethical ends—that has its own obsolescence built in. “Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates” and the Death of the Hollywood Comedy 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

I like improvising as much as possible on set. Gaspar Noé on dementia in "Vortex," witches in "Lux Æterna" and the "shamanic side to cinema" 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z

Much like baseball or arguing about abortion, improvised comedy is something the Americans do terribly well and we've never entirely managed to master. This week's new live comedy 2012-12-08T00:05:44Z

“His brain works differently. He seems like a jazz musician, improvising and riffing. He shows this deep, deep vulnerability. He’s such an open soul. He’s taught me to be fearless.” Richard Lewis is not as miserable as he appears. But he’s still miserable. 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z

Eventually, it was confirmed that Bonham improvised, using the case of a guitar. Led Zeppelin: a beginner's guide 2012-10-11T14:30:00Z

The second of the five films, the rapturous “Lovers Rock,” captures a 1980 Blues Party — underground, improvised dance parties with thumping dub reggae held in homes since nightclubs were typically closed to nonwhites. In McQueen’s ‘Small Axe,’ an epic of West Indian heritage 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z

One default reaction to the musical form called “free jazz” — Ornette Coleman’s phrase for this improvised, experimental style of jazz — has long been that it’s “not music.” ‘Fire Music’ Review: An Impassioned Case for Free Jazz 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

He will perform with his wife, Lani Hall, the former lead singer of Sergio Mendes’ Brasil 66; and a three-piece band, which allows them to improvise — something he couldn’t do with The Tijuana Brass. Herb Alpert and Lani Hall aim to bring joy to Seattle’s Triple Door 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z

Ms. Halvorson — whose crinkly, caustic sound makes her one of the most distinctive guitarists in improvised music — will begin her weeklong residency at the Stone with aa triplicate of duets. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z

“If you play in tune with him and get his rhythm, he will give you all the freedom to improvise as you tell his story.” The Cinematography of Darius Khondji 2012-07-15T00:23:01Z

Cohen also revealed that for the first time, BBC1 will air a series of improvised dramas and four sitcom pilots in a bid to "supercharge" comedy on his channel. BBC1 'to do more for older viewers' 2011-08-27T16:23:29Z

She improvised along with the singers in church, and she taught herself to hear musical architecture and to invent melodic lines. Sudan Archives Is Making R&B Deeper and Stranger 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z

The book alleged that actor Michele refused to improvise, as suggested by Conway, instead insisting they stick to the script she had memorized. "Funny Girl" gives Lea Michele a stage to poke fun at those literacy rumors 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

But Broodthaers’s idea of belgitude seems the more important one to me: something meaningful and beautiful but also rickety and improvised, and not such a thing as would prevent our sympathy with all people. Marcel Broodthaers’s Brussels, and Mine 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z

Leigh’s work has largely been focused on contemporary ensemble pieces that anatomize British society, made in collaboration with a dedicated repertory of actors who fashion each film from an intensive process of improvised rehearsals. How ‘Mr. Turner’ director Mike Leigh, actor Timothy Spall brought a great artist to life 2014-12-26T05:00:00Z

Does the brain handle an improvised performance differently than a rehearsed one? What can we learn from freestyle rappers? 2012-11-18T16:00:00Z

The screenplay is credited to Matt Serword, but many lines feel as if the cameras had kept rolling while everyone improvised. Review: In ‘Slow Learners,’ Aspirational Hedonists Doff Their Glasses 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

Historically, there has been a divide: underground films in which trans people play themselves, often with improvised dialogue that uses their own experiences; and mainstream films in which A-list, cisgender actors portray a trans character. A fantastic leap – trans cinema's breakthrough moment 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

You see patterns, symmetries, geometries, but you also see hurtling force and pedestrian behavior; often these dancers might almost be improvising. Review: From City Ballet, a ‘Peculiar Marvel’ by Ratmansky 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

A range of extended techniques, including bow whips, improvised pitches, vocal shouts and careening slides, revealed the ritualistic violence latent in the aristocratic hunt — the savagery underneath the thin veneer of civilization. German composer-clarinetist shows his virtuosity 2017-01-24T05:00:00Z

As if to answer his own rhetorical question, what follows is an improvised cadenza on electric bass, both dazzling and no big deal. New Music: Albums From Thundercat and Buika 2013-06-10T21:43:39Z

If all the world’s a stage and life is a dream, then order is something continually improvised by human striving and imagination. Vladimir Nabokov, “Houdini of history”? 2013-03-17T19:00:00Z

They play small, careful, gentle and arranged music, and then they play big, noisy, gestural and improvised music, flicking between one and the other as if those two dispositions were connected back at the riverhead. Music Review: Yo La Tengo at Maxwell’s in Hoboken, N.J. 2012-12-11T22:59:30Z

The scene may be short but viewers of the episode next week can expect to be treated to a line improvised by the Vice President himself. Vice President Biden to Guest Star on Parks and Recreation 2012-11-08T16:00:45Z

“Gimme the Loot” looks like it was improvised, especially the street scenes with Sofia and Malcolm walking and talking and establishing boundaries. ‘Gimme the Loot’: Tag it slight but sunny 2013-04-11T20:40:02Z

Surprise first runner-up Angry Indian Goddesses is a largely improvised comedy about women in Goa who bond on the eve of their friend’s wedding. Toronto film festival 2015: watch the awards ceremony with us - live! 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

This is not a description of an actor’s nightmare, but of a very real, entirely improvised play, called “Stolen House,” that takes place on borrowed stage sets. No Script, No Roles: It’s No Problem for the Actors of ‘Stolen House’ 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

Between a series of Houdiniesque escapes — thanks to an uncanny ability to improvise keys and zip guns out of everyday materials — and a rash of disciplinary infractions, DeFriest's jail time ballooned instead of concluded. 'Mark DeFriest' documents a Kafkaesque tale of imprisonment 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

Mr. Andriessen’s music is carefully structured, strictly notated and technically demanding, yet he loves to improvise and is passionate about jazz. The Dutch Composer Louis Andriessen at Carnegie Hall 2010-04-01T20:43:00Z

Jazzers, too, enjoy messing with – sorry, make that "improvising over" – the classics, with sometimes lovely results. Readers recommend: classical songs – results 2012-06-14T09:21:59Z

Influenced as much by Stravinsky as by Ellington or Gil Evans, and open to the wildest diversions from improvising soloists, Towns' explosive albums remain at the cutting-edge of big-ensemble jazz. F&M playlist 2011-01-27T22:15:01Z

One day, the costars spent an afternoon together improvising, and a costume designer observed them from afar. Five things we learned about Jane Fonda at her AFI tribute 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

A version of the group heard on “Portals” — which incorporates a string quartet plus Davis’s regular improvising quintet — will appear at the Jazz Gallery on Sept. 10. For Music, a Fall Deluge of Performances Is Beginning 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z

They invite their collaborators to improvise and trade ideas back and forth until something works, as if they were sitting with friends in a living room. Amadou & Mariam Aim to Expand Audience With ?Folila? 2012-04-13T21:05:13Z

On “Duopoly,” her sharp and stimulating new album, the pianist Kris Davis engages eight different improvising musicians in duets, covering a lot of sonic territory. The Playlist: Danny Brown and the Weeknd Serve Up Twists and Turns 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

When it came to other aspects of music, such as the ability to improvise or compose, or even to learn a simple melody, there was almost no compelling literature. Guitar Zero: psychologist Gary Marcus says science proves it's never to late to learn music 2012-06-05T15:11:01Z

Said Linklater, “This is why we don’t improvise in the movie.” Bullock, Roberts Crowned at Hollywood Film Awards 2013-10-22T15:14:20Z

Stuck at their destinations with shelter-in-place orders, they had to improvise to get home. Perspective | What to do when disaster strikes on vacation 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z

Continuing Ms. Liden’s inspired yet homey and often utilitarian transformations of space, materials and social relationships, it presents a video and improvised furniture on each of two adjacent floors. Klara Liden Unveils ‘It’s Complicated’ 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

Once we started the scene again, we improvised for about 45 minutes, and at the end of it, Hopkins asked me in character: 'What would you do to get this part?' James D'Arcy: 'I delivered my first line and Anthony Hopkins burst out laughing' 2013-02-01T07:00:09Z

A rapper’s filter, what we might call his “inner critic,” appears to shut down when he’s improvising, more so than when he’s just reciting lines from memory. What can we learn from freestyle rappers? 2012-11-18T16:00:00Z

RUDD: I never think in terms of, Well, this is scripted and this is improvised. | David Gordon Green, Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch on Making “Prince Avalanche” 2013-08-07T19:09:21Z

That’s part of the implicit conceit of this clever sitcom starting Tuesday on BET — part scripted and part improvised — in which all of the stars play lightly parodic versions of themselves. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Real Husbands of Hollywood’ and Lack of Black Male Leads 2013-01-14T23:20:39Z

More than any other music, jazz encourages an understanding of opposing energies in productive harmony: individual and collective, composed and improvised, past and present, hot and cool. New Music: ‘La Misma Gran Senora’ by Jenni Rivera and ‘Tiresian Symmetry’ by Jason Robinson 2012-12-17T22:57:59Z

Schubert was often asked to improvise waltzes on the spot.” Taking Schubert for a Wild Joy Ride 2010-12-03T22:00:00Z

We improvised off of that treatment, and brought Isabella into that initial process. Jenny Slate on voicing the melancholy "Marcel the Shell" and creating a laugh "that's not creepy" 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

The concept is similar to Improbable theatre's Lifegame: Drummond seeks a volunteer from the audience and, after a series of questions, improvises a play based on their fears, friendships and passions. Empty | Theatre review 2010-03-16T22:45:00Z

Beyer’s escape happened only two months after the Wall came up, during a time when it was still an improvised structure. The Berlin Wall in The New Yorker 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z

Here’s a match that was waiting to happen: the eclectic improvising trio Medeski, Martin & Wood and Alarm Will Sound, a 20-piece chamber ensemble with a spirit of incursion at its core. The Playlist: Lana Del Rey’s Smoldering Return, and 12 More New Songs 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

Disability, race, economic status and political ideology all figured at some level into the nominations — and those issues all found their way into the improvised conversations sparked by each of the items. A vote in favor of ‘Beertown’ 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

And the pianist Christian Sands, 28, a habitual McBride sideman, led his own slashing quartet, delivering airtight compositions and punctilious improvising. Newport Jazz Festival Begins a New Era, With History as a Guide 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

Their dialogue, which sounds at least partially improvised, is one of those boozy late-night colloquies between men in which little of substance is said, and a lot of churning emotion bangs around the room. | 'Mercy': Scott Caan, Star and Writer of Tough-Guy Romance 2010-04-30T00:17:00Z

The novel tells the story of a Russian writer, Sergei Rozanov, who is challenged by a blind woman he meets in a hotel to show off his legendary talent for improvising stories. D.M. Thomas, 88, Dies; His ‘White Hotel’ Was a Surprise Best Seller 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z

“They were improvising songs that melted my brain, they were that good. Then I went to see a student show and they weren’t that good and I thought, ‘Well, I can do that.’” Jason Chin, iO performer and teacher, dies at 46 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z

"A big part of the appeal is that Shane trusts us to take the bare bones of the script and to then improvise in rehearsal," says Gilgun with a daft grin. This Is England redux 2010-09-03T23:03:00Z

There, she discovered “new” scored, experimental and improvised music, along with what she calls “extended vocal techniques,” taking her classically-trained voice into new territory. Helen Pridmore and friends to perform the experimental music of John Cage and Earle Brown 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

In the improvised exchanges between Ms. Butterfly and the younger tapper Alexandria Bradley, the level of surprise and invention was delightfully high. Syncopated Ladies and Beauteez’n the Beat Revel in Tap 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z

To celebrate, I improvise a cocktail that I name Worker’s Ruin – one shot of ice-cold strawberry vodka in a champagne flute, topped up with prosecco. Meat and potatoes: what happened when we flavoured vodka with bacon 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

"There was a brief window of time where bands were willing to give themselves over to an improvised light show," Lebrun said over coffee on a recent Tuesday. 1960s art collective stages midsummer party at Young Projects Gallery 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z

That’s a great line, by the way, in an otherwise so-so script that suggests it may have been improvised. Too bad ‘Masterminds’ wastes one of the year’s best comedy casts 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

Working with Key, Malek and Felder over Zoom, Baker invited them to reflect on who they are through writing and improvised movement. Lesbians in Ballet: ‘Has Anyone Like Me Ever Walked These Halls?’ 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z

His idea of a good day involved guns, motorcycles, practical jokes, improvised bombs and a 64-color assortment of recreational drugs. Review: In ‘Stories I Tell Myself,’ Life as Hunter S. Thompson’s Son 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z

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

Mr. Revis follows his own internal mandate to be stormy or forthright in his improvising, and so does Mr. Vandermark, but they can seem isolated within the project. New Music: The Game, Eric Revis and Ryan Blotnick: New Albums 2012-12-24T22:49:33Z

"You know," he said, "we're just going to have to improvise." Lou Reed, legendary rock pioneer, dead at 71 2013-10-27T22:51:00Z

The piece marks the latest update to “Voyager,” a piece that he developed in 1985 and described as a, “virtual improvising pianist.” What Happens When A.I. Enters the Concert Hall 2023-06-10T04:00:00Z

"Really, really, sorry Mum, I can't make it tonight…" She improvises. The Sovereign Light Cafe by William Boyd: a short story inspired by Keane 2012-06-16T08:00:00Z

The Discord Altar A deceased voice teacher is memorialized by homeless youths he once taught in this new contemporary opera featuring music improvised by the cast. L.A. theater openings, April 5-12: 'I and You' and more 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Mr. McCraven began experimenting with the music that would become “In the Moment” five years ago, after seeing the virtuoso guitarist Jeff Parker playing freely improvised sets alongside a D.J. at a Chicago bar. Makaya McCraven Sees the Future of Jazz Through Layers of History 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

The NYC Winter Jazzfest, the city’s leading showcase of cutting-edge improvised music, is expanding its itinerary and issuing a new commitment to gender equity. Winter Jazzfest Plans Expanded Bill and Focus on Gender Equity for 2019 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

“All these years later, they’re still the primary artistic force. Not just the players, but the improvising we do. Luckily for me, there have always been players interested in what Turtle Island is about.” Turtle Island Quartet brings its eclectic tastes and passion for discovery to Seattle 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z

As I was coming to, I remember hearing the actors on stage improvising. Angela Lansbury, Chris Pine, Rajiv Joseph: Favorite memories from 50 years of Center Theatre Group 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

This kind of meticulous museum treatment is unusual for a musician, let alone an improvising or living one. Review: Cecil Taylor’s Mysteries Don’t Resolve at the 88th Key 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

The audience would cut out news stories of the day, tack them to a wall, and comics would pick one to read aloud and improvise a scene about it. 'This show traffics in culture wars': Jordan Klepper on his Alex Jones-inspired satire 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z

The three men, all with little acting experience, quickly learned to improvise from a scripted outline. Three 'Old Goats' from Bainbridge gain nationwide attention in film 2012-08-16T01:02:04Z

Later, American troops would display a selection under an improvised sign reading: “The Hermann Goering Art Collection: Through Courtesy of the 101st Airborne Division”. Patricians of parchment 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

“If I’m holding the camera, I’m able to improvise and change my mind and I don’t have to bother with justifying myself,” she said. A New Subject for a Veteran Documentary Maker: Herself 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z

When she was waiting to meet the candidates, she was improvising with strangers. ‘Janeane From Des Moines,’ Mock Documentary, Hits the Right 2012-09-30T16:51:30Z

He remembers those years as a string of sketchily improvised celebrations. Art, Darling 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z

There are more than passing similarities to that album in that that the songs manage to sound improvised without falling apart on the spot. CeeLo’s Strange New TV-Theme-Song Album 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z

When Lucinda Williams' July 12th Taste of Chicago set was cancelled after heavy rain and flooding, Williams and Tom Overby, her husband and manager, decided to improvise. Lollapalooza and weather: Is there a plan B? 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z

Like, improvising as a full band, rather than as four individual soloists. Trey Anastasio and the art of improvisation 2011-09-05T20:01:00Z

“We spent a lot of time, myself and the producer Alison Jackson, working on improvising the dialogue and changing the nature of the story.” Tim Roth: ‘As messy as your life can be, there has to be a window you can escape through' 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z

While in Mexico, improvising the way a jazz musician might, he asked her to marry him while they stood on the hotel balcony. Finding the Right Note, Pure and Easy 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z

Rauschenberg was riffing, improvising, and seems as concerned with the act of making as with the final product. From Silence to Noise: Rauschenberg’s Influence on Music 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

It's comedians mucking around with live musicians, a combination of improvised stuff and things we've tried to rehearse. Alex Horne, comedian: Edinburgh festival Q&A 2012-08-06T13:30:01Z

A few moments later, he’s still reminiscing, still improvising: “Every pancake looks like them.” Divas, choirboys, songbirds, angels: None of them sound like Serpentwithfeet 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

To be an improvising musician nowadays almost always means writing your own textbook, often with source material from outside the blues and jazz tradition. At 100, Thelonious Monk Gets a Hero’s Celebration 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z

The important part comes later, in a segment Adlon designed to be largely improvised; the dialogue filmed is what the women answer to questions posed as the camera is rolling. TV's changing view of the change: The menopause conversation is getting better, finally 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z

He improvised on the piano for five minutes or so, going modal and minor, getting away from his default splashiness; you could almost feel minds wandering in the big room. Music Review: What Lurks Under the Splashiness 2011-03-17T22:54:49Z

As I’m bouncing on that ball, I’m actually bouncing using one foot with my leg in the cast improvising at three o’clock in the morning. Kate Winslet Has No Filter 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z

Christopher appeared as Malcolm X in a play in Jamaica, Queens, and Anthony was playing experimental, improvised music in ensembles alongside Thulani’s poetry in productions downtown. The Family That Turned Malcolm X’s Life Into Opera 2023-11-01T04:00:00Z

Some are improvised, as the performers react to their unpredictable stage. Theater Review: Jonathan Solari?s ?Love Letter? on a Sidewalk Stage - Review 2011-09-30T23:22:12Z

When not playing with a straight-ahead quartet, he favored chunky, percussive backdrops that offset his tuneful improvising. Arthur Blythe, Jazz Saxophonist Who Mixed Sultry and Strident, Dies at 76 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

To what degree it reflected what you were hearing wasn’t very clear: They were improvising interactively, and not stopping. Review: Tyshawn Sorey Goes His Own Way at the Vanguard 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

On improvising innovation: At several points in the interview, Jobs talks about inventing new products on the fly. 7 Lessons From the Lost Steve Jobs Interview, Showing at a Theater This Week 2011-11-15T14:31:32Z

Rather than choreograph any of the cinematic mayhem in advance — there was no time for that, it seems, or desire — Mr. Wahlberg improvised. ‘Broken City’ Is Directed Solo by Allen Hughes 2013-01-12T15:00:00Z

He turns it into an improvised weapon, much as he did with a microwave in Under Siege, or a sausage in Out for Justice. Steven Seagal protects Vladimir Putin from small children – phew! 2013-03-14T19:15:00Z

But the fusion of art and nature that I would most like to see is Doug and Mike Starn’s latest adventure in improvised bamboo sculpture. | Art : Ideally, Striving for an Organic Fusion 2013-07-18T21:23:03Z

As a showman, Connick delivers the comedy both scripted and improvised. ‘Harry Connick, Jr.: A Celebration of Cole Porter’ Review: 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z

“He was very open and so quick. He could improvise on the spot.” 'I was very angry' – the last interview with Jonas Mekas, godfather of avant garde film 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

But when you improvise live, the people are seeing the naked creative impulse. Patti Smith’s most personal interview: “The things that make me feel strange – I’ve transformed them into work” 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

When the yard was bare of chives, Dad improvised with minced celery leaves. The little egg device I’ll never get rid of, because it reminds me of Dad 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z

Next week they will release their first album as a duo, the expansive, richly improvised “The Transitory Poems,” on ECM Records. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z

Nor does improvised jazz need to blow our squishy little minds every time we encounter it. Perspective | What is Sudoku jazz? 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

By the time of her death, they were playing entirely improvised live shows. Broadcast: Berberian Sound Studio Original Soundtrack – review 2013-01-03T15:30:02Z

“The punk movement was all about D.I.Y. and publishing your own zine, and figuring out how to make things yourself and improvise.” The Hippies Have Won (the Plate, at Least) 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z

Most jazz fans know Arts for Art for its annual Vision Festival, the banquet of avant-garde improvising that takes place downtown every spring. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

I’m not planning to be at the Philharmonic’s performance of the score of “E. T.,” but I’d dash there to hear Rollins improvise on it. Revisiting Sonny Rollins’s Score for “Alfie,” a Musical Masterwork That Transcended the Film 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z

He played the piece with jazzy vitality, as if he were improvising on the spot. Music Review: Philharmonic and Shanghai Symphony in Central Park 2010-07-14T23:05:00Z

Before the encore Mr. Adams improvised another song, a thank you to the audience, in which he recapped all his banter, all his throwaways and spontaneous, surreal asides. Music Review: Ryan Adams at Carnegie Hall - Review 2011-12-07T22:57:44Z

Two teams perform improvised scenes based on card combinations provided by audience members, who get onstage. Now Playing in Chicago: ‘Game’ Shows 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z

He was recovering from back surgery Your film backgrounds are very different — musicals and heartfelt dramas versus improvised raunchy comedies. Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen Discuss ‘The Guilt Trip’ 2012-12-09T08:10:06Z

Wilson deftly evokes the dramatic stakes, showing us the precariousness of Odysseus’s improvised plot, as well as the thrumming violence beneath. Review | The first English translation of ‘The Odyssey’ by a woman was worth the wait 2017-11-16T05:00:00Z

In the latest episode, our host faces a somewhat daunting task: Using ingredients from the local market, Martinez must improvise three spicy summer drinks. How to improvise a cocktail, Rick Martinez style 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

She made her screen debut the next year under her real name in Warhol’s “The Life of Juanita Castro,” an improvised black-and-white political comedy. Ultra Violet, Warhol Superstar, Dies at 78 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z

Accustomed to improvising, the band simply dodged the flying objects and marched a bit more quickly, the music never stopping. New York’s Pop-Up Concerts Kick Off With Jazz at a Vaccination Site 2021-02-21T05:00:00Z

It plays straightforward, outward hard-core punk that over the course of a song moves toward something inward and not straightforward at all: billowing effusions of sound and improvised noise. Review: Destruction Unit Finds Method in the Mess in Bushwick 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

But only a few moments in the film are improvised; most of those easy exchanges and testy disagreements are tightly scripted. 'Land Ho!' embarks on two men's adventures in Iceland 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z

His method of attack is rooted in contemporary music culture, and sees him improvising extraordinary stream-of-consciousness rants over a series of hip-hop loops. This week's new comedy 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z

Waves form as the duo align and break, ebb and flow, as Mr. Pollini, improvising on chord clusters and stamping on the pedals, is heard from speakers behind or far from the piano. Review: Four Days of Luigi Nono in ‘Utopian Listening’ 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z

As I heard the improvised fugue of the Met’s street vendors, his idea began to make sense. Bird Song, Sirens and Saxophones for a Stroll Between Museums 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

In his improvised lyrics, Skone praised Cervantes but also said, “I represent the current poets.” Rapping for Cervantes, for the Glory of It 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

Described in fascinating liner notes as "instrumental reinventions" of standards arranged and improvised by the two, their first recorded collaboration offers breathtaking synchronized sound. Sharon Van Etten sings of a toxic relationship on 'Are We There' 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z

The new suburbs spread out, the old traditions were gone and novel conformities improvised there, a new orthodoxy for the quietly desperate. Assassination at the movies 2012-10-04T07:00:02Z

Moran proposed a duet concert, the two of them alternating or jointly improvising jazz and classical pieces. This Kennedy Center director is making performance art out of jazz. Can he bring fans along? 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

They’re stunning — somehow relaxed, improvised, aerated — yet also dreamily, transcendently elegant. Review | Are these the most beautiful textiles in the world? 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

“Principles” doesn’t look improvised, but it does look as if it has multiple options. Review: In ‘Principles of Uncertainty,’ Talking and Dancing About the Weather 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z

We didn't want to lose the heart because a lot of times when you get improvising comics, we can just go all over the place and then everything just turns to s**t. "Maisel" and "Veep" star Reid Scott on why he loves playing "the bully types" 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

While the recording has an organic feel, “Homeland” is a digital collage of live material — recorded during a lengthy tour of improvised storytelling — and home recordings. Laurie Anderson?s Heart, Politics and Processors 2010-06-25T16:17:00Z

Before “Every Breaking Wave,” the Edge’s piano malfunctioned, leading Bono to improvise for a few minutes while the band’s crew attempted a fix. U2 at the Forum: 5 thoughts on the band's final show 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

How many times do you watch the scene while you improvise? How Dev Hynes Went From Being in ‘We Are Who We Are’ to Scoring It 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

Watching Morrissey improvise, I am immediately struck by how brilliantly Savage's process captures the way people actually speak to each other. Dominic Savage's love letter to Margate 2012-06-05T18:00:02Z

Spacious moonscape-walks and improvised dialogues between the sections brought the piece to a long, purring baritone-sax note, which evaporated dramatically into a gusting, windy sound. John Surman and John Warren – review 2012-06-05T17:46:01Z

And yet Malkmus, ignoring the blueprint laid down at rehearsal, opened the performance with a series of improvised chirps. Stephen Malkmus had his groove denied. He was upset for about five minutes. 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

Investigators found two improvised explosive devices and drafts of threatening letters similar to those sent by the Bishop at Tompkins' Dubuque storage locker, according to authorities. Man called 'Bishop' mail bomber to defend self 2012-04-23T01:22:00Z

Whereas with Paul . . . we spent quite a lot of time improvising and building up the sort of texture of their relationship and their characters. Hugh Bonneville on the enduring charm of "Downton Abbey" and why he was nervous to film "Paddington" 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z

His palms produce a thudding bass, his fingers tap out a fiddly syncopated tattoo, and his nails rattle a coffee mug into life as an improvised cymbal. The Fun Stuff and Other Essays by James Wood – review 2013-03-01T08:00:01Z

He played it all with terrific abandon, though, and an improvised encore, with the Liebestod and The Ride of the Valkyries juxtaposed in counterpoint, brought the house down. Proms 20 and 21: Wayne Marshall; OAE/Rattle 2010-08-02T12:44:00Z

However, Zorn, who comes to the Barbican with a variety of guests to celebrate his 60th year, always had a parallel life as a composer that was at least as productive as his improvising one. Ultramagnetic MCs, Trash Talk, Zorn@60: this week's new live music 2013-07-06T05:00:00Z

And how many real kids who have grown up with Buzz Lightyear and Sheriff Woody have unspooled their own improvised movies on the rec room floor? | 'Toy Story 3': Voyage to the Bottom of the Day Care Center 2010-06-17T19:23:00Z

He is improvising with the changing state of his body. The Remarkable, Resilient Loren Connors 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z

A young woman wearing a Joker-esque red jacket and black shorts improvised some jazzy dance moves for a video camera. ‘Joker’ Stairs Become a Bronx Tourist Draw. Hope You’re in Shape. 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

He presented the mournful "Shipbuilding" with a swirling, percussive vibe adapted, said Costello, from Chet Baker's improvised arrangement of the song. Elvis Costello, Ben Folds harness the L.A. Phil at the Hollywood Bowl 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z

I decided I would take portions of one of his speeches, and I would improvise my own speech so that I was, in a way, channeling DuBois. Artist Theaster Gates on W.E.B. DuBois and what Donald Trump doesn't get about Chicago 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

They worked out an arrangement on the fly, Mr. Moore improvised a guitar solo, and the result was an exuberant, high-spirited performance unlike anything else that had come before. Scotty Moore, guitarist on Elvis Presley’s groundbreaking Sun Sessions, dies at 84 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z

It’s a holy centrifugal force, a reference that can ground a piece so that you can ascend and lift and improvise in a celestial way.” Songwriter With a Global Guitar 2011-05-09T22:00:27Z

“I was improvising; I was listening to weird, dark, funky music, and playing Debussy,” Hodges said. A Pianist Adapts to Life With Parkinson’s Disease 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z

In this clip from a recent presentation of the film for the Envelope Screening Series, Pratt talks about ad-libbing and improvising from the usually narrow confines of the vocal booth. 'Lego Movie' actor Chris Pratt on improvising in the booth 2014-11-26T05:00:00Z

When writers strayed they were criticized like Langston Hughes, who improvised until his poems felt like jazz, or ostracized like Zora Neale Hurston, who traveled the south to record African American lived experiences and folklore. 7 thrilling books by Black authors you need to read now 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z

This introduction requires a dancer to perform an improvised solo rooted in Gaga, a method of training that focuses more on sensation than technique. Dance Review: Alvin Ailey Troupe at City Center 2012-11-29T21:59:19Z

In Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, such events end at sunrise, which is ushered in by the hna pa thwa, an unbroken, improvised sequence of dance, singing, acting and clowning. Review: Shwe Man Thabin at Asia Society 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z

Mr. Fass, working after midnight, was a pioneer in free-form radio, using his airtime to improvise a collage of music, ideas and meandering conversation. Movie Review: ‘Radio Unnameable,’ a Documentary About Bob Fass of WBAI 2012-09-18T21:50:25Z

In other cases, Miller improvises in chunky, rhythmic sequences of chords — no melody needed. Roy Hargrove and Mulgrew Miller’s Glorious Duets 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

He repeats his lines, “anticipate, don’t improvise,” as if reminding himself how to act. David Fincher cast the wrong "Killer" in the Netflix thriller that lacks the auteur's usual edge 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z

Legions of exotic dancers have improvised on her bumps and grinds for decades. Illinois strip clubs could face $5 'skin tax' 2012-02-16T11:00:00Z

Nothing could rip the life out of you as quick as an improvised explosive device. Memorial Day’s lessons in amnesia 2012-05-24T15:04:00Z

Writer-director Vladan Nikolic's "Allure" is neither a documentary nor a traditional scripted drama but, rather, an extensively improvised experimental film relating the New York stories of a group of diverse immigrant women. Immigrant women grapple with change in the ephemeral 'Allure' 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

For all the actors’ praise of Mr. McDonagh’s script, was anything improvised? Buddy-Cop Banter With a Brogue 2011-07-17T01:13:02Z

As a study in collective improvising, or maybe poetry or physics, it’s worth hearing again. Music Review: Sometimes Even the Lulls Are Full of Action 2011-06-26T16:18:17Z

If the show could be said to be about anything, it’s about improvising and vamping your way out of a tight corner. | 'Anything Goes': A Glimpse of Stocking? Shocking! 2011-04-08T02:01:03Z

But in place of rasping, long-haired dudes with weathered telecasters, three saxophonists improvised over a driving Rhodes riff. ‘This is cool music’: A younger crew of Seattle jazz-informed musicians bend genres, creating their own sound 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z

They didn’t battle it out, like two-tenor teams did 50 years ago, and they didn’t create lots of improvised counterpoint. Music Review: Two Saxophonists Step in as a Pair of Substitutes 2010-08-25T21:53:00Z

Within the rigorous structures she builds — tightly ordered sequences of movement, song and spoken text — she finds the freedom to improvise, to respond to her audience in the moment. What if a Dance Piece Was Actually Funny? Or Super Sad? 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

Leigh, whose films are known for improvised dialogue made up on the set, said his "Mr Turner" was no different. Mike Leigh brings Turner's stormy seas to sunny Cannes 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

The nationwide protests over police brutality, full of improvised and individual expressions of anger, might be considered living memorials to Floyd, who died in police custody in Minneapolis on May 25. Perspective | What to do when the Confederate statues come down? Leave the pedestals empty. 2020-06-15T04:00:00Z

Dean and Nick would write new outlines and scenes, and Isabella and I would record them word for word and improvise off of those scenes and leave room to see what came up. Jenny Slate on voicing the melancholy "Marcel the Shell" and creating a laugh "that's not creepy" 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

The dancers open and close the show with some pithy unison choreography but otherwise trade off improvising with one another and the band. Michela Marino Lerman and Others Tap Into Betty Carter 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z

I sometimes improvise, depending on what vegetables I have on hand, and do not hesitate to add a dollop of anchovy paste to the mushroom risotto. What Our Food Reporters and Editors Make When They’re Too Tired to Cook 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

So, I improvised the story of "Undine," and I said to Paula, "You are drowning" and Franz, "You have to wait on land — perhaps she is coming back from death." "Undine" is an exquisite, romantic reimagining of an underwater myth using a phallic CGI catfish 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

Paul McCartney returned to film a sequence to accompany his song "The Fool on the Hill" in The Beatles' improvised television special that has been dubbed "The Tragical Mystery Tour." In St. Tropez, the Rolling Stones made "Exile on Main St." — and turned rock stars into high society 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z

There is a connection and it’s Tijuana, it's the grittiness of the city, this city that is improvised and chaotic.  Hugo Crosthwaite on Tijuana, Mexico's missing, the power of comic books 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

Skits usually began with scripts or at least outlines, while leaving ample room for Mr. Armisen and Ms. Brownstein to improvise their roles. Television: Comic Counterculture in the Northwest 2011-01-02T05:44:00Z

He was shocked to discover that Brando – who he claims arrived on location “weighing about 300 pounds” – would not recite words written for him: “He wanted to improvise it all.” ‘Marlon Brando was my idol but he turned into a monster. He sabotaged my film’ 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

“In the small towns, somebody was just sitting down at the piano or the organ and improvising the scores—adding classical things and their own music,” Daugherty said. Wuvwy Music 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

Auditioning with David - whom he called "LD" from the start - he went in improvising and immediately made an impression. A hit on `Curb,' J.B. Smoove spreads his `ruckus' 2010-06-13T22:01:00Z

But Threadgill, 79, has done plenty of soaring, on stages, over the years: composing music intended for social dancing, and pieces for orchestra and string quartet in which players are encouraged to improvise. Henry Threadgill’s Musical Spring Is Varied and Extreme. Like He Is. 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z

He leads me through the movie’s best parts, jumping from scene to scene, improvising new ones, with the action figures from our pockets, with our own bodies, at the airport gate. Greetings from Tatooine, Arizona 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z

We had all risen early for “Inside the Bird Chorus,” an improvised performance led by the jazz clarinetist David Rothenberg that was the first of the day’s Make Music New York concerts. Variety and Verve at Make Music New York 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

He’s an outspoken misogynist and opera buff whose morning fitness routine is a flouncing dance improvised to loud classical music. | 'The Extra Man': Kevin Kline Charms on New York Social Scene 2010-07-29T22:23:00Z

I improvised a new line, and got so distracted that I promptly forgot the next joke, my best. How I Found Myself in Mrs. Maisel’s Shoes 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z

In this case Tewkesbury provided the structure, the situations and most of the words, but actors were encouraged to improvise. Why Robert Altman's brilliant 'Nashville' never had a sequel 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

She collapsed into giggles when wrestling to pull a robe over her shoulders while speaking, and improvised a subtle way to call the pianist, Joe Iconis, over to help her put it on. Talking About Her Love of McCullers 2011-04-27T16:06:15Z

It’s a five-minute song that starts to crack after two minutes, with the pianist Mike Garson’s free improvising pushing it to the end. Listening to David Bowie: A Critic’s Tour of His Musical Changes 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z

He wanted to film quickly and to improvise – and the 3D equipment wouldn't allow it. Bernardo Bertolucci: 'I thought I couldn't make any more movies' 2013-02-01T07:00:00Z

She’s alert and thoroughly engaged in the logic of moving harmony when she improvises, one of those singers whom nonsinging musicians call “a musician.” Music Review: Jazz Improvisation, Casual but Tight 2010-12-23T21:55:52Z

This century, he has interpreted graphic scores by Christian Marclay and contributed to multiple improvising ensembles, including Zig Zag Power Trio and Harriet Tubman. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

By doing so — and by documenting his long demonstration on dozens of records — he became one of the most influential figures in the last half-century of improvised music. Steve Coleman Plays His Sax at the Stone 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

As much as it improvised atop its structures, the group burrowed into them, building tension and momentum from within, turning them into meditations or shaping them into galvanizing crescendos that crested in a standing ovation. Finding the Joy at South by Southwest: 12 Notable Acts 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z

The ensemble claims that "all text, some songs, maybe lights, and most definitely sound design will be improvised every night." From Rhino Fest, reviews of "4:48 Psychosis" and "Poverty" 2011-01-27T18:39:00Z

Later came the 1963 March on Washington and King’s partly improvised “I Have a Dream” speech. The New Definitive Biography of Martin Luther King Jr. 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z

Two nights will be improvised on the set of “Perfect Crime” at the Anne L. Bernstein Theater, the other two on the set of “The Effect” at the Barrow Street Theater. Comedy Listings for May 6-12 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

They are here to watch their pianist, Pat Thomas, play an improvised gig. About Group: Alexis Taylor swaps Hot Chip for jazz improv 2011-03-31T21:29:00Z

They are not into the somatic experience; they don’t really improvise. An Artist-Run Dance Space That’s ‘All Presentation, Baby’ 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z

On “All of You,” Coltrane’s improvised patterns are rough — units of rhythm more than anything else, that slice the band’s sense of continuity. In 1960, John Coltrane went on one last tour with Miles Davis. European audiences weren’t prepared for what he would play.

Mr. Seidl’s camera captures the improvised, intricate choreography of these pursuits brilliantly, conveying both Teresa’s confusion and excitement and the sense that she is participating in an elaborate, well-established ritual. Movie Review: ‘Paradise: Love,’ First in a Trilogy Directed by Ulrich Seidl 2013-04-25T23:55:47Z

Finally, the closer, “Oboe Concerto”, is too loosely connected with its seemingly improvised instrumentation and digital zips, zaps, and drips, all of which distract from the song’s foundation, its basic shape. REVIEW: World Peace Is None of Your Business Is Definitively Morrissey 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

It's so amazing to see how that track is improvised. "The American apartheid is coming to a head": Ani DiFranco on oppression and "Prison Music Project" 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z

It was eight hours long, full of improvising and repetition and kept changing course as other musicians joined in, some from the festival and some not, sometimes taking the lead and moving the music elsewhere. Critic?s Notebook: All Tomorrow?s Parties Festival at Asbury Park, N.J. 2011-10-03T22:40:06Z

His piano vocabulary grew voluminous, his full-on virtuosity was dazzling, his performances were improvising marathons. 50 great moments in jazz: Cecil Taylor's jazz piano revolution 2010-04-14T11:25:00Z

We do our whole scene on the dance floor, and it was all improvised. "We have to do it in Spanish": Melissa Barrera on dance-filled "Carmen" reimagining set in Mexico 2023-04-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Turner uses sweet ’70s R&B voices as a starting point for all his improvising, and over a raw, clanky vamp he sang the words “for you” over and over. Music Review: Jamire Williams?s Band Erimaj Plays the Jazz Gallery 2010-04-19T21:53:00Z

FRI An "improvised horror movie" from the troupe Blood Squad. Community calendar 2011-10-26T23:24:10Z

Corea, who died of a rare form of cancer at age 79, won the trophy for best improvised jazz solo and best jazz instrumental album. Grammys’ in memoriam especially long, grim in pandemic year 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z

They improvised for an hour -- and, as the story goes, sparks flew. Oscar countdown: 'Lincoln' 2013-02-20T18:24:18Z

Can tended to begin recordings with a clean slate, improvising on tape for hours and building what Mr. Liebezeit — who died in January — called “a geometry of people.” Holger Czukay, 79, Influential Rock Experimenter, Is Dead 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

The words and melodies were improvised, not written down and never sung the same way twice. When gospel sermons came on the phonograph 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z

How did you manage to rewrite, improvise and shoot the whole film in only 10 days? Mark Duplass Is the Hardest Working Man in Hollywood 2012-06-14T10:00:41Z

Almost instantly, she turns it into an improvised song, her rich, lilting voice giving your dream depth and resonance and, most important, another way of understanding it. 29Rooms: Bummed that the DTLA event is sold out? Don't be 2017-12-09T05:00:00Z

They’ll be nosing around for interesting details and quirky tidbits to use in their improvised musical, “Your Love, Our Musical.” Comedy Listings for Feb. 12-18 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

Strangely, although the soundtrack sounds very easy and improvised, getting the right voice was difficult. How we made: Michael Nyman and Jane Campion on The Piano 2012-07-30T17:30:44Z

Lau are a remarkable band, particularly live, thanks to their stirring, complex, partly improvised compositions and the virtuoso interplay between fiddle, accordion and guitar. Lau: Race the Loser – review 2012-09-27T20:48:01Z

“As migrants, you always improvise, attuning yourself to your surroundings, and that comes across in my work,” he said. ‘Artists Are Migrants’: A Nigerian-Irish Dancer’s Multiplicities 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

Like an all-powerful auteur yelling “Action,” Trump declared that “You will never take back our country with weakness” and sent his bit players to improvise a juicy cliffhanger and third-act twist. Perspective | The Trump cult has obliterated the line between citizenship and fandom, with deadly results 2021-01-08T05:00:00Z

Her total vision also entailed total freedom to invent, to improvise during the shoot. “A Real Director Should Be Absolute”: Lois Weber’s Prescient Thoughts on Filmmaking a Century Ago 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z

“It’s very vulnerable to improvise, especially on an instrument so big and rare. You’re showing your guts,” she said. Mary Lattimore: Has Harp, Must Travel 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

It was improvised, and ran for three or four weekends at the then Albany Empire in London. Keith Allen, actor – portrait of the artist 2013-03-26T16:57:55Z

Plus, when you hear a jazz saxophone improvising over that, the listeners can hear that this comes from the world of jazz. Bringing a jazz pulse to e.e. cummings and friends 2011-03-14T13:54:10Z

The music was heavily arranged and light on improvised solos. Esperanza Spalding says goodbye to song-driven shows 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z

Casting directors came to town to hold auditions for a new teen soap, Fifteen, and alongside thousands of kids, Reynolds was asked to improvise. Ryan Reynolds: ‘I’m good at being the butt of the joke’ 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z

He has spent a lifetime talking up his “whatever”, while always remaining sufficiently adaptable to improvise a weapon from a bar towel, microwave or Native American something-or-other. George Foreman fighting Steven Seagal in Vegas? It’s the least we deserve 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

Were the dancers comfortable improvising and moving in such an unspectacular manner? Giving Budding Choreographers Room to Move 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z

They had to improvise — another spectacular manifestation of American genius — a hell of a lot more than the rest of us. Ken Burns: Why the African American history museum belongs to all of us 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

We sang along to nonsense tunes and improvised being monkeys picking salt out of each other's skin. From Hare to Hytner: leading cultural figures oppose the EBacc 2012-12-14T22:50:00Z

The saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell’s “9/9/99, With Cards” relies on a notation system that the composer has also used to help orchestras improvise. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

During the improvised “Drums/Space” segment of each concert — traditionally accompanied by widespread conversation — computer animation responding to the beat kept many fans’ attention on the music. No Song Left Unsung, Grateful Dead Plays Its Last 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

"We had to create the material as we were making it," he said, adding that locations were often improvised too as casino owners would sometimes refuse to let a planned shoot go ahead. Kevin Hart finds character close to home in 'Think Like a Man Too' 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

When Reiner asked what the plague was like, Brooks improvised back, “Too many rats, not enough cats.” 'Love and free food': Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner share the secrets of their 70-year friendship 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z

Drawing from their Second City training, Mr. Levy said Ms. O’Hara innately understood “how you can improvise a scene and keep it going, and give it a legitimacy through good character work.” ‘Schitt’s Creek,’ With Eugene Levy and Catherine O’Hara 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

They met in 1970 at the California Institute of the Arts and soon began improvising together in performances called “Illuminations.” Dance Review: Simone Forti and Charlemagne Palestine Reunite at MoMA 2014-04-15T21:31:12Z

This week: A celebration of an African American author and activist, a new musical based on a fantastical French comedy, and a holiday show improvised right before your very eyes. L.A. theater openings, Dec. 11-18: 'Impro Theatre’s 1966 Holiday Variety Extravaganza' and more 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

“Not planning, not meeting, just improvising. The old school wants you to plan, but we needed to feed the people.” Review | José Andrés’s riveting ‘We Fed an Island’ calls for a revolution in disaster relief 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

And this improvised speech, in which Murray dispensed pearls of wisdom that were not remotely directed at the groom-to-be, was at once funny and touching and weird. 5 reasons to invite Bill Murray to your bachelor party 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z

The Slackers keep their music and performances fresh by playing a different set every night, improvising and stretching out tunes. The Slackers are the ska stalwarts who keep on going 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

On "The Very Thought of You," Jordan improvises a recitative rebuttal, midsong, of a review that complained she didn't sing the melody last time she was in town. Sheila Jordan's 'Yesterdays' a treasure 2012-01-30T22:34:05Z

“His audition was just O.K., it wasn’t great, but his ability to improvise was unmatched,” Mr. Gray said. Back Again, Whether or Not He Was Away 2011-08-18T15:13:02Z

Together, he and Mr. Stone improvised a scene in which the exhortations of the talking berries grow more sinister: Remember “Star Wars”? Remember being a kid? ‘South Park’: After Two Decades, It’s Still by the Seat of Their Pants 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

We give you more credit for improvising your own perspective, not to imitate or be part of some plan. Wynton Marsalis Finds Solace in the Optimism of the Blues 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z

As the musicians would jam and improvise, he sang melodies and phrases over top, gradually shaping each song. Leon Bridges shares his evolution to ‘Gold-Digger Sounds’ 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

Free improvising, a small room, standard instruments, stifling heat. Music Review: Darius Jones, Ryan Sawyer and Shahzad Ismaily at the Stone 2012-07-04T21:38:09Z

At one point, he nests for weeks in a stand of bamboo, reading and writing by the light of an improvised oil lamp. How the homeless create homes 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z

Mr. Coleman, one of the most rigorously conceptual thinkers in improvised music, was considering potential sites for a pair of major outdoor performances, on June 21, the summer solstice, and Sept. 23, the fall equinox. Steve Coleman, a Jazz Outlier, Rides a Wave of Acclaim 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

He deconstructs Thelonious Monk's "Epistrophy," gradually unfolding and weaving the familiar melody into his improvised runs. 9 of the year's best overlooked albums 2011-01-07T22:04:04Z

Eventually, they are joined by Mr. Riener, a former Merce Cunningham dancer and choreographer, who, in “Leap Year,” another section, improvises in and around Tompkins Square Park in the East Village. Sidestepping the Web, Dance Ink Is ‘a Performance in Print’ 2016-07-24T04:00:00Z

The film details the relationship between a young Parisian woman and a middle-aged American hotel manager and was notorious for an improvised, butter-assisted sex scene that resulted in a prohibitive X-rating in the US. Maria Schneider dies aged 58 2011-02-03T15:59:57Z

On Friday, the guitarist, an eminence on New York’s greater improvised music scene, releases “Music Is,” his first solo album in almost 20 years. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

We have a little bit more of a base going in, and we don’t do much improvising. Mark Duplass Is the Hardest Working Man in Hollywood 2012-06-14T10:00:41Z

They tend to open onto acres of space where the tenor saxophonist can improvise and conjure. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in NYC This Weekend 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z

Contrary to rumour, Hauer did not improvise that monologue, though he did cut most of the written version while adding a few lines of his own, including that final one. Rutger Hauer obituary 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z

With their broken, overlapping conversation, many of his films seem improvised. Richard Linklater: ‘someone’s living back there, and he’s murdered somebody’ 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z

And in the middle of a song some improvising would commence, lightly interactive but restrained; Ms. Serpa stepped forward to sing more melodies, and then the theme returned. | Sara Serpa Quintet : Instruments and Voice, Improvising on Melodies 2010-09-22T22:24:00Z

Control freak that he was, Ford was surprisingly open to improvising. New book 'The Searchers' exposes roots of a legend 2013-02-19T17:37:09Z

The Third Man was scripted by Graham Greene, but its most famous speech was improvised on the spot. Reel dilemma: are we condoning the conduct of Hollywood's tyrants by watching their films? 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

There was a bit where we enter, and I asked the director, "Can I just improvise a little bit with the guys because I feel like this is a place Anita has gone to?" From "Perry Mason" to "Severance," Jen Tullock explores the various shades of "American loneliness" 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z

Here was the jolt of architectural eccentricity we craved, an improvised structure that looks like a few shipping containers crash-landed on top of a warehouse. In Charleston, Beer Gets Its Own Neighborhood 2018-04-25T04:00:00Z

The 90-minute walk, which starts at 8, will incorporate poetry reading, live acoustic music by Usdan campers and improvised choreography with the lamps in a collective tribute to sustainability. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

The actor tells Jason Solomons about improvising with young co-star Kyle Ward, how That Sinking Feeling first inspired him to act and about holding out for parts. March of the Iron Men 2010-04-29T10:28:00Z

Anyway, we'd be playing for six, eight hours a day improvising, and these cameras were filming it. Celebrating "great songwriter" David Bowie's 75th birthday & introducing him to a new generation 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z

It wasn’t like they used the one take we improvised on or the one take we didn’t. Actors of ‘The Big Short’ Talk About the Debt Crisis, in Beverly Hills 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

I feel like I’ve done some things that were largely improvised, but the end result was not meant to be crisp and certainly not comedic. He slept with a lesbian: Summer’s hottest rom-com 2012-06-13T00:05:00Z

The steps, many improvised from colonial imagery, reinforce the idea that North African dances have no actual skill. From Her Algerian Family’s Living Room to the Dance Stage 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

The ephemeral nature of dance, especially McIntyre’s, which was often performed to improvised music, is one of the reasons Zollar is determined to celebrate her company’s anniversary with a retrospective. With MacArthur ‘genius’ grant, this 70-year-old choreographer has big plans for the future 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z

Plus, I also report on the improvised mural inspired by Los Angeles that was painted by Mexican artist Hugo Crosthwaite at the Museum of Social Justice on Olvera Street. Essential Arts & Culture: New Year's culture events, art and democracy, surviving the fires 2017-12-30T05:00:00Z

There was too much reverb on his microphone, and he occasionally reverted to trusted patterns in his improvising. Eddie Henderson and Quintet Regales the Crowd at Smoke 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

His rough, improvised surfaces almost invariably conveyed a startling openness and vulnerability. An Appraisal: An Artist of Selective Abandon 2011-07-06T18:34:22Z

They did a callback with Steve and in that audition, I improvised with them a bit. "Space Force" standout Ben Schwartz reflects on pandemic anxiety, career shifts, and Carrie Fisher 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z

The directors portray them in their houses, with improvised sets, revealing a collection of urban curiosities. The Carpetbagger: New Zealand Vampires and Nazi Zombies at Sundance 2013-12-05T21:03:46Z

Every snippet of music was, in some way, created or suggested by the participants, from the leitmotif to musicians improvising rain sounds by tapping on violins and horns. ‘Stay Elevated’: How homeless youth and Seattle Symphony Orchestra built a score 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Ruby’s constant improvising short-circuits ceramics’ chronological timeline: the formed and fired clay below, the applied and fired glaze, or glazes, above. Sterling Ruby Pipes Down, a Bit 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z

The string sections were written on the spot and sometimes improvised. Meltdown 2012 – Marc Almond: 'I first met Antony Hegarty in a drag club' 2012-07-29T23:04:01Z

Worried that the song was too short, Gabler asked pianist Sonny White to improvise a suitably stealthy introduction. Strange Fruit: the first great protest song 2011-02-16T08:00:05Z

He swept across the floor, doing his version of balletic swan arms — shoulders forward, muscles visible — improvising spins on his knees and bowing his legs, his ankles swiveling. Lil Buck Expands Jookin’s World 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

It’s also an extended experiment in careful improvising, using counterpoint to move quickly and unsentimentally toward the open spaces. New Music: The National, Mike Pride and Hush Point Release Albums 2013-05-20T21:46:46Z

Back in class, the prisoners improvise around lines of Shakespeare. Acting up 2011-05-13T09:20:55Z

Another show, "Campfire," involving improvised campfire stories, played there this month. Improv troupe's skills come in handy during displacement 2011-10-27T20:19:10Z

When the vamp became good and loud, Mr. Moran started improvising on the melody, using stride figures, bouncing one rhythmic flow off another. Music Review: Jamire Williams?s Band Erimaj Plays the Jazz Gallery 2010-04-19T21:53:00Z

Some of Willard’s greatest roles came in the improvised mockumentaries he did with the writer, director and actor Christopher Guest and a recurring company of players including Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy and Michael McKean. Best in Show: Watch Fred Willard’s Most Memorable Roles 2020-05-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Malkmus generally stuck to his songwriting strategy of creating riffs inspired by favorite or recently heard songs and improvising his lyrics on the spot. Music: Together Again for the First Time 2011-08-18T18:29:50Z

Have you reached a level, though, where you feel comfortable improvising with them — or is that too daunting? Chris Messina is a work in progress on and off 'Mindy Project' 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z

Instead, the final product is an unusually austere action film that peaks with an improvised scene in which a real Navy medic examines Mr. Hanks, exactly as she would any other damaged sailor. Filmmakers Embrace Reality, on the High Seas and Beyond 2013-07-17T15:36:51Z

With brilliant intuition, Reiner improvised feed lines to Brooks’s “2,000-year-old man”, the elderly sage who would pronounce wisely on all topics. Carl Reiner: farewell to a heavyweight master of American comedy 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z

He asks you to improvise in a very structured way of dancing. Aurélie Dupont Learns to Breathe, and Be Free, Again 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

If you have ever passed a day in, say, Oregon timber country you know why a logger might want to improvise a jacket from a blanket. Review: With Weather as a Composed Prop 2011-01-15T20:42:43Z

Mr. Jarrett soon hit on something analogous in his own concerts, allowing improvised passages to become the main event. Keith Jarrett Confronts a Future Without the Piano 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

And it goes further back, to the teenage Warchus discovering a passion for theatre as he encountered Brecht and Beckett and improvised work, although went to see Andrew Lloyd Webber shows for his birthday treats. Matilda: Thank heaven for little girls 2010-12-27T22:00:00Z

Once again, you can expect swinging percussion coming from the pit — in addition to improvising players threaded throughout the orchestra. The Met Opera’s New Season: What We Want to See 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

We just did some scenes off script, and they had me improvise a speech. Andrea Savage on "I'm Sorry" season 2: "Your whole life turns to s**t when your kid learns to read" 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z

Once he left school, he had bartending jobs where the management would let him improvise at the mike in the breaks between the musicians’ sets. Richard Pryor, Flame-Thrower 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

The quintet's performances are improvised — composed on the spot and inspired by the land formations and the people in attendance. Celebrate Earth Day at Kent's Earthworks 2010-04-21T19:47:00Z

A podcast provides an opportunity for comics to improvise, stretch out and indulge themselves in a way they wouldn't be able to on stage, radio or TV. The Podfathers (and mothers): top 10 comedy podcasts 2010-06-23T13:06:00Z

Small oops: Jay accidentally uploaded their improvised exertions to the cloud, for easy viewing by the many friends, relatives and acquaintances to whom he’s given an iPad. REVIEW: Don't Dare Watch This Sex Tape 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z

Mr. Hawkins has said that he and Mr. Burton came up with “Susie Q” as they improvised around Mr. Burton’s guitar flourish. Dale Hawkins, Dies at 73; Rockabilly Author of ?Susie Q? 2010-02-18T07:08:00Z

We couldn't help but improvise on this one once we got on set. Adam Sandler tackles his critics 2013-08-01T07:53:17Z

So the way we wrote the first three episodes was just improvising in a room. Rachel Bloom on 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend' and Flipping the Bechdel Test on Its Head 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z

I'm not worried about it at all, including improvising an entire set. Comedian Jeff Garlin isn't afraid of political correctness 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

Were you given opportunities on “Intramural” to improvise and be loose with your performances? ArtsBeat: Tribeca First-Timers: Kate McKinnon 2014-04-24T16:01:57Z

I adapted and learned how to improvise in that way.” Chef Abra Berens turns her attention to grains and legumes 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

Are you guys comfortable enough with each other and with the writers where you improvise to come up with scenes? Hank Azaria: I've Lived The Simpsons Marathon 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

As in his comedy, Mr. Davis said, “I’m improvising.” Tom Davis, ‘Saturday Night Live’ Comedy Writer, Dies at 59 2012-07-19T21:41:39Z

For five minutes, they all improvised at once, and then, one by one again, everyone attempted Michael Jackson’s moonwalk to the accompaniment of “Billie Jean.” Review: In ‘Ballet (New York),’ Nondancers Try Their Jetés 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

The dialogue is mostly improvised, and actors wear an earpiece for director Don Roos to keep them on track. Lisa Kudrow prescribes laughter in Web series 2010-07-29T16:02:00Z

“I improvised, and they did not let me stop.” The Jewish Trumpeter Who Entertained Nazis to Survive the Holocaust 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

Much of the film is improvised, which posed a unique challenge for Woodley and her co-stars. Shailene Woodley Finally Knows What She Wants Again 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

Scatting is not the only way for a vocalist to improvise and Johnson excels at making subtle melodic changes, particularly on her tender rendition of George Shearing’s “Lullaby of Birdland.” Review: Album releases by Greta Matassa and Kelley Johnson show two Seattle jazz singers at the top of their game 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

They transported her on an improvised stretcher, a surfboard borrowed from neighbors, and with help from their college-age sons. The iPhone at the Deathbed 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

Later he improvised an entire song over a chord sequence using crowd-sourced words and phrases: They included “sex,” “motorcycle,” “fantasy,” “twins,” “abstinence” and “McDonald’s chicken wrap.” Critic’s Notebook: Essence Music Festival With Mary J. Blige, in New Orleans 2012-07-09T22:42:42Z

As a man who can improvise weapons out of anything from a sausage to a microwave, I’d like to imagine he is picturing himself using a tambourine to immobilise someone like Gary Busey. Has Steven Seagal proved you can be a Buddhist and a mascot for the arms trade? 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z

She achieves fluency in new languages in order to improvise within them; she studies their narrative traditions in order to write within them. Popcast: Jen Shyu and Musical Inspiration 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

The script was not much more than an outline, with most of the scenes improvised. Rodleen Getsic in the Horror Film ‘The Bunny Game’ 2012-09-15T03:18:45Z

I like for actors to improvise on set, so we did a lot of that as well. 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

As a production, “Tucker on Twitter” looks less like a newscast than one of the improvised lockdown shows that late-night talk hosts recorded from home in the early Covid days of 2020. The Paranoid Style in Tucker Carlson’s Home Office 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

Dating is a phenomenon to be analyzed in improvised group therapy over cocktails. Newly Released Books 2011-08-17T22:44:30Z

In the similarly seemingly improvised “2 Flags,” a battle to the death between two fairly hapless gangs — the Hoods and the Stripes — on the streets, rooftops and beaches of Tel Aviv. Last Chance: Emerging ?Young Israelis? at Lesley Heller Workspace 2010-08-11T22:45:00Z

Much to the animator's surprise, he said, Disney did let them keep most of Williams' improvised scenes. How Robin Williams became 'Aladdin's' Genie 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

In 2007, during a performance of his improvised solo Frank in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, he inadvertently caused a cultural furore by dancing on the Armenian and British flags. Nigel Charnock obituary 2012-08-07T14:06:41Z

But what at first seems like a knack for visual economy just turns into a handicap, as Mr. Rauniyar lets his stories dribble into rote melodrama, not helped by improvised dialogue. Movie Review: ‘Highway,’ Directed by Deepak Rauniyar 2013-04-26T01:34:44Z

The comparison is stylistically farfetched, but I was reminded of the great Ellingtonian tenorman Ben Webster, who spent his autumnal years playing tunes so tenderly that he didn't bother to improvise around them. Miles Davis: 'Coltrane was a very greedy man. Bird was, too. He was a big hog' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-11-06T13:26:00Z

Mr. Godard wrote — and improvised — during the 29 days of filming in sequence. Admiring Godard's Latest and Greatest 2010-05-14T14:30:00Z

It was called free jazz, a loose, improvised blend less tied to structure, and its creation has been credited to Coleman, who started playing these frenetic arrangements on a white plastic saxophone in 1959. 15 Essential Black Liberation Jazz Tracks 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z

First, there was his terrified, improvised bribery of the guard—loved how you could see his wheels turning on lines like, "You're a smart man." Game of Thrones Watch: Talk to the Hand 2011-05-23T16:45:00Z

“When I was just getting into improvised music, I saw women leaders, women composers. I saw women putting projects together.” For Women in Jazz, a Year of Reckoning and Recognition 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Bracing and physical, it dislodged the realest crowd roars I’d heard at an improvised music concert in a while. Music Review: Ninth Annual Winter Jazzfest 2013-01-13T22:44:58Z

In the middle of the improvised dance floor, a tall man stood with his eyes closed, moving his arms like a bird’s wings, transported by the music. At Europe’s Illegal Parties, the Virus Is the Last Thing on Anyone’s Mind 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

Early kiteboarders used improvised equipment — homemade kites, water skis, experimental boards hacked together from other sports — with limited safety features, and pieced together the mechanics of riding by trial and crash. Explorer: Kiteboarding in the Dominican Republic 2010-12-04T05:01:00Z

They would write the scripts and then I could come in and improvise a little bit with the lines and they would write that into the script. Kooky queen of comedy 2011-07-16T23:06:31Z

The trio improvised, but on the basis of nine new compositions by Coleman that they had rehearsed. Ornette Coleman’s Inspired Soundtrack for “Who’s Crazy?” 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

Silent Slapstick Pianist Ben Model improvises lives scores to classic comedies by Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, et al., in this family-friendly show. L.A. theater openings, March 19-26: 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof' and more 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

This evening of improvised tap and live music showcases his mesmerizing combination of nimbleness and powerful propulsion. 6 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

What rhymes with “limited Broadway run”? After a successful stint Off Broadway, this hip-hop musical comedy, improvised anew each night, moves uptown. 13 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

There was no greater need to improvise than on his most storied mission — Operation Greenup, on which the movie Inglorious Basterds is loosely based. Still flying at 97: Autobiography recounts WWII pilot’s life 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

I remember graduating La Guardia High School, hearing this song and feeling liberated and excited about the possibilities of how my generation could interact with improvised music. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love 21st-Century Jazz 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z

In addition to Taupin-penned tunes about love, loss, dead soldiers, Mexican holidays, and Oscar Wilde's release from Reading Gaol, The Diving Board includes three improvised instrumentals. Elton John's The Diving Board set for September splash 2013-02-25T12:05:28Z

It’s not a traditional flamenco evening; in its purest form, flamenco is improvised. A Fenómeno of the Flamenco World 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z

He did so with quite unbelievable fluency, improvising most of the time, digressing all of the time, extravagantly pouring out first-class buffoonery and wit. Cambridge Footlights celebrate 100 years of comedy: from the archive, 3 June 1983 2013-06-03T06:00:00Z

Like other actors, she was attracted to working with Mr. Altman because of the leeway he allowed in interpreting scripts and improvising scenes. Sally Kellerman, Oscar-Nominated ‘MASH’ Actress, Is Dead at 84 2022-02-24T05:00:00Z

Try one of our favorite recipes or improvise with your own. Must-Have Wedding Shower Ideas 2010-04-05T15:05:00Z

Those are sustainability, particularly re-forestation; finding joy in life and in being Brazilian; and the idea of "gambiarra," the quirky Brazilian art of improvising repairs using whatever parts are available. Rio Olympics opening ceremony highlights Brazil, environment 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z

Generally I was expecting a bit more from the performances, partly because, like you, I’d seen Rob Schwimmer improvising from “Chalkboard” on opening night and it was amazing. Critics Discuss ?Christian Marclay: Festival? 2010-07-23T22:31:00Z

Dig deeper, though, and you could form connections beyond the fact that both of these improvising composers emerged from Texas. Music Review: Pauline Oliveros and Olivia Block Find the Unconventional 2013-09-15T22:03:58Z

When he did his famous improvised impression of Cary Grant in that picture, he seemed to be impersonating a grownup. Tony Curtis: a true Hollywood star 2010-09-30T13:11:00Z

In improvised music there’s hardly the risk of repeating oneself, and one of the best things about Winter Jazzfest is running across the same artist in multiple contexts in a given night. At the NYC Winter Jazzfest, Learning How Less Can Be More 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z

Weird, perhaps: Some of the characters are ghosts; there are longish passages of improvised song. ‘Corsicana’ Review: Four Lost Hearts in the Heart of Texas 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z

But its days are numbered: This one-room club, dedicated to experimental improvised music, will close in February, relocating to a theater at the New School in Greenwich Village. New Year’s Eve 2017: A Guide to Music and Comedy Events 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

Many of these dawns are designated "rosy-fingered", one of the stock descriptions used to help the original oral bards glue together metrical lines as they improvised their verse. Why 'Odyssey Dawn'? 2011-03-25T12:30:01Z

Hancock dedicated a spontaneously improvised piece - with lots of classical influences - to his Belgian friend, and then Thielemans joined him for a playful free-form duet loosely derived from Miles Davis' "Blue and Green." Musician friends celebrate Thielemans' 90 years 2012-09-30T03:04:08Z

As the performers improvise around the original material, they attain a communion with Dvorak’s love of Black American music that most other interpreters fail to achieve. Best Classical Music Tracks of 2022 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z

Shot in only 24 days, “Begin Again” was made with the same lo-fi aesthetic of its music, which meant working quickly, improvising dialogue and finding ad hoc locations. Music powers rebirth in ‘Begin Again’ 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

It’s obvious that Timothy Spall didn’t improvise, “The sun is god,” because it’s written everywhere you care to look that that’s what he said. 'Silly question!' Mike Leigh interviewed by our readers and famous fans 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z

She was pushing into their improvising space, rejecting demureness or stoicism. Review: Jazzmeia Horn, a Jazz Vocalist on the Rise, Steps Up to the Microphone at Dizzy’s 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z

He improvised a bass line, sketching a counterpoint. Tame Impala Makes Music for Loners. But Now Kevin Parker Plays the World’s Biggest Stages. 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

Their gathering sessions in 2018 involved bertsolaritza, which is improvised poetry competition; irrintzi, a battle scream delivered by women; and traditional dancing from the old country as well as from Great Basin communities. At the Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Tall Tales, Resonant Rhymes 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

It’s largely improvised and poses as a documentary, though to such a slight degree that it hardly matters. Television Review: ‘Family Tree’ on HBO, Directed by Christopher Guest 2013-05-10T21:37:04Z

In 1984 he staged a small walk in the marble staircase of the Paris Opera, accompanied by a mezzo-soprano who improvised a score. Street-Level High-Wire Man 2011-06-15T00:02:03Z

Spence liked to improvise, and often worked a familiar melody into something deeper and more idiosyncratic. A Miraculous Field Recording: The Guitar Playing of Joseph Spence 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

Outside of Renaissance Faire fanatics, few are capable of improvising Elizabethan chitchat. Learning 'Lear': The How-To's of Hub-Bub 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z

At first, I was practicing guitar and learning different things and improvising. How an American Guitarist Inspired a Japanese Folk Legend to Play Again 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

Imagine shooting the breeze with a cackling, clearsighted cynic who suddenly leans in, lowers her voice and describes the state of your soul in improvised rhyming couplets. Review | This 93-year-old artist has been taking on racism and sexism for decades — and is finally getting her due 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

He writes a brief outline as the basis for the actors to improvise from, and reportedly then always loses his nerve temporarily. Preeetty good. Larry’s back and still misanthropic after all these years 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z

They met when July cast her as a YouTube dancer in her 2011 film “The Future”; later, they discovered a mutual affinity for estate sales, and started surreptitiously recording improvised scenes there. Dance Class Is in Session: Flail, Get Weird, Unlock Yourself 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z

He, too, has become a Dock to Dish convert, and in conversation he gets fired up by the challenge of improvising with whatever lands in the kitchen. Seafood Restaurants Cast a Wider Net for Sustainable Fish 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

Wheeler's lower-range long notes are tremulous but expressive, and his shapely double-time playing, afterthought-like resolving notes and trademark plaintive squeal still add up to an inimitable improvising style that explores an equally unique compositional vision. Kenny Wheeler/John Taylor/Steve Swallow: One of Many - review 2011-03-24T22:10:00Z

We first see Johnny in a long take making a series of pointless circuits of an improvised racing track out in the Mojave desert, driving his gleaming black Ferrari sports car. Somewhere ? review 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z

Gould says Altman’s faith extended to allowing him to improvise a scene where Marlowe paints his face with inky fingerprints at a police station. ‘Of course I smoked marijuana!’ Elliott Gould on stardom, Streisand and Elvis Presley 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z

This time, though, the kids will do more than jam; working with 7- to 9-year-olds who have participated in her Musical Playdates web series, audience members will improvise original songs. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

Of course, for Tepfer to supply his own improvised versions of the missing Bach inventions takes some bravado. Bach Invented. Now a Pianist Is Trying to Match Him. 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z

His insider's knowledge of law enforcement would also help him identify experts in areas like improvised explosive devices and persuade them to be interviewed by CBS if the moment called for it. CBS' Miller rises above the fray in Boston case 2013-04-29T11:35:10Z

“Everything is structured. Anyone who thinks it’s improvised, get a camera and film the two most interesting people you know, walking and talking, and see how it works cinematically. It will be terrible.” Richard Linklater: ‘someone’s living back there, and he’s murdered somebody’ 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z

“How do they improvise? And that was the answer for the rest of my life—improvise.” At the Kitchen’s Spring Gala, John Cale and Lawrence Weiner Inspire and Provoke 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

During confinement earlier this year, he collaborated again with Rose on a “massive” improvised project, currently clocking in at over two and a half hours, and being shopped to Working Title. Tony Todd on Candyman, Black Lives Matter and seeing stars cry on the set of Platoon 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z

There’s also something shamanistic to Lenett Partlow-Myrick’s “Crystal Cluster #3: Healing Racism,” an improvised monument to African American victims of police and mob violence. Review | In the galleries: 21 artists explore and expand notions of recovery 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z

“I used to grab Misty Copeland in class and start improvising with her, and we would work in the studio and put little pas de deux together,” he said. Teaming Up to Pair Art and Ballet in American Ballet Theater’s ‘AfterEffect’ 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

Alongside the lampooning of redundant sequels in the Jump Street sequel is a running skit about Tatum’s reluctance to improvise. From 21 Jump Street to Baywatch and CHiPs: how Hollywood remade the remake 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z

The music cycles soothingly through a few chords as guitars and piano intertwine, a saxophone improvises at the periphery and Jenkins approaches serenity. 15 Songs We Almost Missed This Year 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

Generations of local Jews of Barbados, have improvised and formed their own unique recipes to age old Jewish recipes using locally sourced ingredients. How breadfruit matzo balls became a staple for the Barbadian Jewish community 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

They work well within the tentative improvised arrangements, moving from groove to tightly-wound intensity with a smiling sense that they are happening. Todd Rundgren: 'What I'm doing isn't even really music' – a classic interview from the vaults 2013-03-13T13:01:33Z

“At that time, there were no clubs that were supporting this kind of music,” Gilmore says, “so all the shows happened in some sort of improvised space or situation.” Lost punk record from Duff McKagan, Mother Love Bone drummer surfaces after nearly 40 years 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z

In this regular series, the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater’s first all-black house team, Astronomy Club, performs improvised sets based on stories about race that are offered up by audience members. Comedy in NYC This Week 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

Then there’s another new film, the low-budget British improvised drama The Escape, in which he is husband to Gemma Arterton’s suffocated, suburban wife, who snaps and abandons her family. Dominic Cooper: Mamma Mia! is like family – but Band of Brothers almost ended my career 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z

“We looked at photos of protests, of the bodies of people killed by the police,” Ms. Destri said, “and we started dancing this, improvising.” Companhia Urbana de Dança Reflects Brazil’s Complexities 2014-08-09T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wilson said he hoped his listeners would also absorb the benefits of improvising outside the kitchen and concert hall: “We want to let them know that what people call mistakes can often be opportunities.” Spare Times: For Children, for Feb. 10-16 2012-02-09T21:47:27Z

Short link for this page: http://gu.com/p/3h8pa Clare Woods, LeedsWoods’s improvised images are obviously organically structured to suggest vast landscape vistas or masses of tangled undergrowth, yet they are entirely free of any recognisable topographical detail. Clare Woods, Laura Knight, Sarah Morris: the week's art shows in pictures 2013-07-12T12:00:00Z

It’s real sound in the air, and Pat’s in there improvising.” 2010-01-30T00:49:00Z

Driven partly by the spread of suicide bombings, improvised explosive devices and other deadly setbacks in Iraq, officials developed new techniques for using information gained in raids on terrorist and insurgent hideouts. Books of The Times: ?Counterstrike,? by Eric Schmitt and Thom Shanker ? Review 2011-09-04T22:27:46Z

He finds the frames “improvised like visual music” in what Mr. Culhane acknowledged in his autobiography, “Talking Animals and Other People,” was an Eisenstein-inspired moment. That Noisy Woodpecker Had an Animated Secret 2011-04-10T22:05:14Z

His singing style balanced plush tone and jittery improvising; he goes low and high, depending on the mood of the song, with different sounds coming through his voice — Johnny Hartman, Stevie Wonder, Betty Carter. Music Review: Kurt Rosenwinkel Trio With Johnny O’Neal at Jazz Standard 2012-06-17T22:08:15Z

In case he gets stuck, the script has been written down in full, a first for the comic, who usually improvises. Grappling German grammar, Eddie Izzard proves humor can travel 2014-01-29T15:27:11Z

At its most basic, tonight's gig at London's Southbank Centre is smooth jazz: strong, unchallenging melodies, played mainly on the soprano sax, with not much improvising. London jazz festival 2012: Where has Jan Garbarek gone? I miss him 2012-11-14T17:21:38Z

Amy would improvise and was so funny that it inspired the other characters. How we made Parks and Recreation, by Amy Poehler, Nick Offerman and Mike Schur 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z

Structurally “Putty Hill” is an assemblage of tenuously connected, mostly improvised scenes and not a conventionally structured film. | 'Putty Hill': Drugs, Death and Downward Mobility in Baltimore 2011-02-17T23:38:30Z

She could accompany herself, improvising the piano part if necessary. Dangerous attractions and revolutionary sympathies: 5 Jane Austen facts revealed by music 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z

What follows is a wild mashup of Shakespeare and pop-culture references that seems chaotically improvised but takes a deceptive amount of skill to execute. Theater Listings for Feb. 26-Mar. 3 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

“It’s so wonderful sitting in an audience and seeing how many families, girls, really connect to that moment that Salma improvised,” Crawford said. What ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’ Owes to Samurai and Sergio Leone 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z

Do the old cliques and cabals around jazz and improvised music still make any sense? ArtsBeat: Popcast: Pat Metheny and John Zorn’s Surprising Mind-Meld 2013-05-24T18:47:04Z

He lets you hear the innate sound of his instrument, using classic jazz-guitar tone with dynamics and a searching quality to his improvising that risks awkwardness. New Music From the Rotem Sivan Trio and Anna Webber 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z

The casual, subtle, improvised quality of "The Trip" can't quite conceal how brilliant it is. Tribeca: Steve Coogan makes fun of his American failure 2011-04-24T18:04:00Z

“I grew up hearing a lot of Indian music from my father, and got involved with improvising it in my late teens,” Riley said. Probosci’s sharp improvisers to play the Royal Room 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Some of his compositions lacked fully notated scores, requiring the performers to improvise large sections. Robert Ashley, Opera Composer Who Painted Outside the Lines, Dies at 83 2014-03-07T03:00:51Z

The film’s essential scene finds Lil Baby in a dim recording studio, improvising melodic mumbles into a microphone, waiting for words to appear inside the sounds. Review | Lil Baby’s inside voice is the sound of a restless American summer 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z

While the film seems improvised, most of the dialogue was written in advance. 'Weekend' director on buzzed-about gay film 2011-10-19T22:59:05Z

Of course, there are different styles, he added, but basically — in the East, or in the West before polyphony — it’s a matter of spinning a melodic line and improvising around it. Music Review: Jordi Savall Brings Hesp?rion XXI to the Allen Room 2010-05-03T22:07:00Z

True, Carter was a special case: How many of his political contemporaries had even heard of the improvising pianist Cecil Taylor, whom Carter invited to play at the White House? ‘Jimmy Carter Rock & Roll President’ Review: A Musically Enlightened Commander in Chief 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z

Yet the improvised — or at least seemingly improvised — digressions turned out to be the panel’s favorite parts. Middle School Students Review ‘Potted Potter’ 2012-06-20T16:21:59Z

Mr. Blake is both supporter and fire-starter; when Mr. Smith doubles the velocity of his improvising around 4:20, Mr. Blake finds a way to both egg him on and give him room. The Playlist: The Hold Steady Get Revved Up and 9 More New Songs 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z

Although everything Mr. Galván does, including sitting and standing, is stylized, he gives off the impression that he’s improvising, trying anything, and his speed creates many moments of “What just happened?” Dance Review: ‘La Curva,’ Israel Galván’s Absurdist Yet Serious Act 2014-03-14T21:30:09Z

A person who is too lopsided thinking-wise — as I have been at times, so I’m speaking from a place of empathy here! –  can have a tendency to improvise unexpectedly. Dear Mitt, you walk funny 2012-09-19T00:00:00Z

But with an improvised performance, he added, “I leave the moment on‌ ‌stage and be like, ‘I can never recreate what we did.’” Abel Selaocoe Finds a Home in Improvisation 2022-09-23T04:00:00Z

She soon became a part of the loosely configured M-Base Collective, which united rhythms from across the African diaspora with a commitment to experimental improvising. Geri Allen, Pianist Who Reconciled Jazz’s Far-Flung Styles, Dies at 60 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

After she admits to pushing her frenemy Brittany into a river, probably killing her, Jay and Rebecca improvise an increasingly ugly cover-up. ‘The Lie’ Review: A Child’s Crime, a Parental Conspiracy 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z

"I don’t know the exact measurements as, so I just improvised and made it based on consistency," Andreeva wrote in an email. 'Jennifer Aniston Salad' trends online as fans sample the star's 'perfect salad' 2022-03-14T04:00:00Z

Steve Jobs physically upended the offices of Apple to foster collaboration; Martin Luther King Jr. improvised some of his most iconic lines. Are You a Slob? That Could Be a Great Thing 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z

The second is a silent movie — a tragicomedy made from projected text and improvised piano accompaniment. 'UH-OH: Frances Stark, 1991-2015' at Hammer Museum is an enthralling midcareer survey 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

Recently bought and saved from demolition by Historic Seattle, the partially renovated structure is quite a backdrop for the dance troupe Salt Horse's long-in-the-works mélange of improvised music, athletic dance and imaginative wandering. Review: Dance piece, offbeat comedy are horses of a different color 2011-05-18T20:16:05Z

You could do likewise with the flavors of your own family rice recipes, improvising for a comfort food dinner that comes together in minutes. Dirty rice is a comforting, flavorful meal with a secret weapon ingredient that is ready in minutes 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z

The property includes an improvised chicken coop with several hens that provide fresh eggs, and Mr. Swing is building a new sugar shack for making maple syrup. Newly Minted Work by a Change Artist 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z

In one piece, he mimicked the cadences of a stock-market report on Chinese television, tracing its notes and rhythms, then improvising melodies on top of those notes and embellishing the sequence with chords. This Kennedy Center director is making performance art out of jazz. Can he bring fans along? 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z

Ms. Pinderhughes, who is 19, did so brilliantly on a drowsy funk ballad called “Completely,” improvising with boppish fluency but a relaxed sense of phrase and line. Music Review: Christian aTunde Adjuah Brings New Sound to a Jazz Festival 2014-05-09T21:40:13Z

And from the 1960s it has been a preferred format on the avant-garde, where free-form improvising can really reward a smaller format. For Jazz Musicians in 2021, Two Was the Magic Number 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

Both Aldana, a tenor saxophonist, and Diehl, a pianist, are decorated young musicians with fearsome chops and deft, judicious styles of improvising. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z

After the bird left and Hanks arose, a fellow cast member whispered to Falstaff what had occurred, and without missing a beat, Hanks improvised a couple of lines referring to the incident. Your Outdoor Theater Memories, Starring Hanks, Streep and Rain 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z

One night that week, Eliasson invited a group of dancers to improvise a dance around the melting ice. A Dance for the Melting Icebergs 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z

An ecumenical cellist and vocalist, Ms. Hughes ranges deftly into chamber music, indie rock, R&B and avant-garde improvising. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Or was it loose, did you get to improvise? "Office Space" 20th anniversary: Read the full Q&A moderated by Richard Linklater 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

His intuitive, improvised color, for example, echoes Matisse’s but from within a formal structure closer to Mondrian’s. Review: Stanley Whitney’s Paintings Reinvent the Grid 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z

Sometimes those scenes would change and we were able to improvise and kind of shoot from the hip a little bit. | David Gordon Green, Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch on Making “Prince Avalanche” 2013-08-07T19:09:21Z

Belting out a version of Whitney Houston's How Will I Know?, the enthusiastic Australian gets the 1,500 or so onlookers to join in the chorus before doing an honorary lap around the improvised stage. Berlin's 'bearpit karaoke' under threat 2012-05-28T12:48:14Z

Pet Judge is a fake reality show, cast with actors, largely improvised, sometimes very funny and every bit as bonkers as it sounds. Gary Busey: “I passed away after brain surgery. Then I came back” 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

Her talent was such that naïve 1950s TV audiences actually believed she was improvising as she went along. The Woman Behind Lucy?s Laughs 2011-08-06T20:30:18Z

But Newport hasn’t stretched its rope very far, relying on its identity as the pre-eminent presenter of improvised music, and enjoying a reliable audience. Newport Jazz Festival Begins a New Era, With History as a Guide 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

It is content with a somewhat sleepy pace, and it delves no deeper than improvised quips can go. Television Review: ?Wait Wait Don?t Tell Me!? on BBC America - Review 2011-12-22T23:07:54Z

"Improvisation isn't truly improvised in a lot of cases," he says. Pull it together, take it apart: How Steve Roden makes a soundscape 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

It’s also something of a soft launch for Braxton75, a multiyear project that will see various classical and improvising groups performing his works ahead of his 75th birthday in June 2020. High School Musicians Take on the (Almost) Unplayable 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

Beethoven’s performance of a Mozart sonata fails to impress its composer, who suddenly urges Beethoven to improvise. Beethoven Is More Intimate Than Ever in New Poems 2021-05-21T04:00:00Z

They worked within a civic tradition that helped invent the localized, do-it-yourself ethos of the civil rights movement, in which ordinary people improvised networks and strategies to enact powerful symbolic demonstrations of resistance. Review | A powerful memorial in Montgomery remembers the victims of lynching 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

"We can't check everyone coming into the city," a police chief said, "and the ingredients for an improvised explosive can be bought at the market." TV review: Dispatches: City of Fear; Accused; The Trip 2010-11-23T06:59:00Z

The layouts are improvised from elements that Sausele-Knodt manufactures, notably cast concrete panels and saw-cut wooden swoops, usually painted but sometimes left unfinished or covered with embroidered fabric. Review | In the galleries: Works draw on feeling, seeing and a penchant for jazz 2021-12-16T05:00:00Z

On the one hand, using real people and improvised dialogue; but on the other, imposing more of a narrative structure. Isaac Julien's angel of Morecambe 2010-09-29T20:30:00Z

“I was improvising, always, in my flat,” she said. Christine and the Queens, an Alter Ego Combining Music and Dance 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

He probably sang on five or six different songs, just improvising. Music Producers Explain How They Created a Hit 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z

He was known for allowing actors to improvise - and getting a wide range of expression from them in return. Arthur Penn, director of 'Bonnie and Clyde' dies 2010-09-29T16:16:00Z

He leads weekly, hourslong Wednesday sessions, at which Brumm and others talk through the philosophy and the psychology of an episode while he improvises at the piano, before later writing a score. A Children’s Show About Everything, Especially Music 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z

In 2010, he performed on the same festival bill as Supersilent, a mysterious Norwegian trio who never rehearse but instead just improvise onstage. London jazz festival 2012: from Herbie Hancock and Esperanza Spalding to John Paul Jones – what to see 2012-11-07T12:56:00Z

“It’s totally improvised, and it’s reacting to what the material wants to do,” she told me this past summer in her studio, as I examined the press. Carol Bove’s Light-Touch Heavy Metal Faces Down the Met 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z

Over the next four days, they would learn about the genre’s distinctive rhythms and melodies, and try their hands at improvising on a number of different instruments. Girls Are Outnumbered in Jazz. At This Summer Camp, They Run the Show. 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z

"A lot of times when you get improvising comics and we can just go all over the place and then everything just turns to s**t." "Maisel" and "Veep" star Reid Scott on why he loves playing "the bully types" 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

She’s delivered a bracing if uneven novel, one that, like jazz, feels improvised. In ‘Spring,’ Ali Smith’s Series Takes Its Most Political Turn 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z

Mr. Cline improvised freely in collaboration with the painter Norton Wisdom, creating anthropomorphic shapes out of abstract color and sound. Wilco Tinkers and Experiments at a Festival It’s Happy to Share 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

The award-winning director is to bring an improvised sitcom to BBC2 in September purporting to tell the story of the working life of the Observer's restaurant critic, played by the comedian Steve Coogan. Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon are reunited... to do lunch 2010-07-24T23:06:00Z

So immediately I had to get on with it and play the piece, and improvise the end of the piece. At the Kitchen’s Spring Gala, John Cale and Lawrence Weiner Inspire and Provoke 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

She honors her late father every morning, preparing his favorite tea to place at an improvised shrine, and spends the first day of autumn performing the miniature spring cleaning that is customary in Japan. Pico Iyer’s Japanese Love Story, from Spring to “Autumn Light” 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z

Largely improvised by the actors, who worked from an outline, and shot in 11 days, “The Freebie” comes across as a modern prelude to a Strindbergian nightmare. | 'The Freebie': Loving Couple Wonder Where the Ardor Went 2010-09-16T23:53:00Z

In the Guggenheim’s modernist cathedral of a rotunda, much of her work looked improvised and impermanent, exactly right for an artist who once said: “We are made of throwaways, and we will be thrown away.” Best Art of 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z

With a sprig of holly in her hat, she improvises songs on her ukulele. Christmas at Dollywood, With Streetmosphere and a Chicken Lady 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z

They improvised whole shows at scruffy theaters like La MaMa, talking, joking, even dancing, as we foot soldiers sat riveted on the floor. New York City’s Gift of Motion: A 1970s Tale 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z

Though the trails are well marked, it’s not unusual to find yourself off course, forced to improvise. Journeys: Step by Step, Hut by Hut in Colorado 2011-08-19T18:55:00Z

By contrast, the Bays' raison d'être is the four-piece's standing outside the music industry, dealing only in live, improvised electronics. The Bays vs Stereo MCs 2010-04-18T21:30:00Z

Most of the film was shot on the streets, or in ordinary indoor spaces, using improvised lighting and an inexpensive newsreel camera. "Breathless": Rebel postcard from the past 2010-05-29T18:01:00Z

Word soon got around about the comer who could improvise with the best. Bill Pitman, Revered Studio Guitarist, Is Dead at 102 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z

In a perfect world we might also see Hay-Gordon improvising to these seascapes, employing the eloquent ebb and flow that he brought last year to Ravel's Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Kooza/Cirque du Soleil – review 2013-01-13T00:05:32Z

I found that when I'm in character, I could even improvise in French. Trailer trash: Jason Solomons rounds up the week's gossip in film 2010-07-17T23:05:00Z

While O’Brien welcomes the audience, Richter sometimes tells the first jokes, improvising with him right from the start. Does the Job of Talk-Show Sidekick Even Make Sense Anymore? 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

Exhausted, worked to the bone, forced to improvise and develop new techniques on the fly, the women proved themselves capable of handling nearly everything thrown at them during the war. The Women Doctors Who Fought to Serve in World War I 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z

NK: I go into a room with Mark, and like a lot of auditions we do over the years are sort of improvising and you feel each other out. The League: Outtakes from our Conversation 2013-11-01T17:44:18Z

Thankfully, most members of the public bought the rubbery ruse and the result is some captivating improvised comedy. Prankster's paradise: Fonejacker hits the streets 2010-04-09T23:11:00Z

He was improvising, in some way, most of the time. Music Review: School?s in Session, but Don?t You Dare Take Notes 2011-05-20T03:02:48Z

“Circulate Susanna” represented what was then Mr. Smythe’s boldest effort as a writer of notated scores, while also leaving space for players to improvise. The Sumptuous, Sour Music of Cory Smythe 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

What was once an improvised stopgap is now the standard. ‘Rap Tees’ Catalogs Two Decades of Hip-Hop Merchandising 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z

But the emphasis is always on spontaneity and improvising. Van Morrison Would Rather Play Jazz Than Talk About It 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

Located in an unlabeled room with no bar, it hosts the most progressive artists in improvised music and usually attracts a line of fans that stretches down the block. Trip Tips: New York City for music lovers 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

In his last tour, Matt told Mr. Sheng, his truck was hit by an improvised explosive device. Jeff Sheng?s Photos of Gay Military Personnel 2010-03-18T02:13:00Z

“Music and motion are a unified impulse, a perfect whole, and every time she improvises, the history of tap meets its cutting edge.” Dormeshia Wins Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award 2021-06-08T04:00:00Z

These musicians are very different, but they share an interest in what might be called improvised sound art. Experimentalists take center stage at Earshot Jazz Festival 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

Even Giorgio Armani, whose default has long been the soft silhouette first improvised by Neapolitan tailors in the 1920s, seemed to have gotten the memo about rent boys. Fashion Review: Review of Men?s Fashion From Milan 2010-06-23T21:42:00Z

Which means that much of “The Grey” is devoted to the practical details of problem-solving: building fires, improvising weapons, securing food, keeping watch. Movie Review: Liam Neeson in Joe Carnahan?s Thriller ?The Grey? 2012-01-26T22:19:02Z

The two men began to move across the floor together, limbs slowly cartwheeling as they improvised. Penn Badgley Flexes New Dance Moves 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

I like to improvise — but my improvising is more like paraphrasing. Chris Messina is a work in progress on and off 'Mindy Project' 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z

Serious jazz on the steel pan — jazz imbued with the historical vocabulary of swing, bebop and the blues, and not, as Provost puts it, simply “improvised music” — may not be crazy. In Victor Provost’s hands, the steel pan becomes a mesmerizing ride 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

When not improvising in extended virtuosic riffs, he pays close attention to the lyrics of the songs he plays. Review: Aaron Weinstein, Wunderkind as Highbrow Dandy 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

In the Quarter, in the Marigny, Uptown, downtown, and, when all else fails, on street corners spotlighted and improvised. Best Places in the South 2010-02-17T21:30:00Z

The event features contestants improvising lyrics based on a phrase or character from “Don Quixote” and other works by the writer. Rapping for Cervantes, for the Glory of It 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

Another onlooker improvised a swirling duet with the willowy Leah Morrison. Review: ‘SILENT dialogue,’ From Dia Jian, Dances From Room to Room at the Met 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z

The official announcement leaves plenty of room for improvising and last-minute adjustments. Delayed Kennedy Center Honors to be rescheduled for mid-May 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z

But one looks at the sea/As one improvises, on the piano. In coastal Maine, the perfect pace for self-quarantining 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

This production evolved as acting company, director and playwright worked together for months, improvising, tweaking, redoing scenes and elaborating roles. In ‘Bachman,’ disorderly lives make a messy production 2013-02-07T23:23:34Z

Ms. Chuma doesn’t limit herself in her mixing of media — careening movement, layered projections, improvised music, multilingual text — or in her making of messes. Review: Yoshiko Chuma, in a Journey Across Borders 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Kris Fox recalls the time he and Gallego got stuck in a sandstorm, unable to see more 25 yards in front of them, but kept hearing the sounds of remote-activated improvised explosive devices. Ruben Gallego made mental health part of his campaign. Specifically, his own. 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z

"The difference was he was improvising all the time," Rodriguez says. Improvisation is a passion for Cuba's Alfredo Rodriguez 2010-08-27T21:12:00Z

And I spent a lot of time listening to music, trying to comprehend what is happening with the time cycles, then trying to sing to them and improvise. With Open Ears, Indian Ragas and Western Melodies Merge 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z

While filming his cameo opposite Viggo Mortensen in “The Road,” he recalled, “I improvised a whole scene that wasn’t in the script, and they left it in.” Film: Robert Duvall, in ?Get Low,? Still a Hollywood Darling 2010-07-23T22:27:00Z

Her shows often involve some mix of storytelling, free improvising and audience participation. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z

Thomas Leveritt, the novelist credited as screenwriter for this largely improvised, fitfully ingratiating film, might say that, in virtually every movie romance, the lovers-to-be are metaphorically chained together. Tonight You're Mine: A Ball-and-Chain, Rock-'n'-Roll Romance 2012-05-10T15:39:58Z

Tyrone channels that sentiment when he sings his auction calls, which are entirely improvised. At the Folklife Festival, arabbers peddle fruit with a musical flourish

Since the selected dancers must improvise with each other to a song they haven’t chosen, they must be fluent speakers in unrehearsed social-dance communication. Swing Today: ‘Our Dance Is Modern Because We’re Alive Right Now’ 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

He created a theme for each story, then improvised variations in each — a technique that repeatedly appears in his later fiction. Familiar Tales Remixed, at the Hands of a Postmodern Master 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z

He uses the big saxophone to run bass lines as well as to improvise melodies. Emily Asher's throwing a Garden Party | Concert preview 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

But this year, her Thanksgiving is pretty much our Thanksgiving: tiny and improvised, without the guardrails of tradition we usually rely on for a holiday dinner. How Does Ina Do It? 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z

Objects of all kinds were brought in, inserted and returned in due course, with ingeniously improvised, wittily deconstructive facsimiles. 2010-02-12T00:07:00Z

Roberts is an alto saxophonist, electronic musician and multimedia artist who is now four albums into a planned 12-record exploration of her family’s lore, one that merges improvised music with anthropological inquiry and speculative history. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

The cast had to improvise every line and scene in the film, with no rehearsals, and barely anyone says a word on screen for the first 30 minutes. Gemma Arterton: ‘​Everyone in the industry knows I'm a pain’ 2018-07-14T04:00:00Z

In an improvised cameo, Mr. Curran moves in response to a riff by Mr. West, and his puckish dance wittily physicalizes the jazz of Mr. West’s thoughts. Dance Review: Sean Curran Company at the Joyce Theater 2013-02-01T22:53:53Z

Listening to jazz guitarists made me wish I could improvise like them. What the folk! Nic Jones is back 2012-06-28T19:00:01Z

At the end there were applause and an improvised curtain call. Put Down Your Book. It’s Time to Act Out. 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z

Compared with Weerasethakul’s acclaimed features, it feels cobbled together and improvised, which for the most part it was. ‘Mekong Hotel’: a meditation on love, past lives | Movie review 2012-12-06T22:07:09Z

Should a drummer offer a sturdy baseline underneath him, or would it be wiser to match the leader’s protean improvising with a dance of cymbal flutters and toms? Charles Lloyd Revels in the Flow on a Stellar Live Album 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

After all, the San Francisco band, with its extended improvised excursions, is as polarizing a group as there ever has been. Revisiting the transitive nightfall of John Oswald's 'Grayfolded' 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z

“I said, ‘Squeeze many pieces and improvise on it,’” Sánchez Ruíz recalled. At Trisha Brown, a New Voice Creates a ‘Symphony of Layers’ 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z

The composer Annie Gosfield works on the boundaries between notated and improvised music, electronic and acoustic sounds, writing music for others and playing herself. Music in Review: Annie Gosfield 2011-03-06T22:22:02Z

“What I tried to do is just leave a lot of time to improvise,” he continues. How ‘Between Two Ferns’ went from hilariously awkward web series to hilariously awkward Netflix movie 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

Adam and I love working together because we whip each other up and we love to improvise. "Maisel" and "Veep" star Reid Scott on why he loves playing "the bully types" 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

He recently joined two other serious talents — the pianist Kris Davis and the drummer Eric McPherson — to form the Borderlands Trio, which released its debut this year, the freely improvised “Asteroidea.” Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

A moment earlier his band had been busy with a tumbling vamp in 7/8 meter, and he carried that pulse as he improvised, in dartlike bursts and a shadowy tone. Review: Ibrahim Maalouf Salutes a Great Arabic Performer 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

And without older generations around, he feels freer to improvise. Analysis | ‘Maybe you do tacos’: How Friendsgiving became the holiday where you invent your own rituals 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

You can improvise with any vegetables you like and have on hand. Make spicy-sweet Indonesian noodles, and dinner's ready in 10 minutes 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z

It was scripted, and then I partially improvised it. Andrea Savage on "I'm Sorry" season 2: "Your whole life turns to s**t when your kid learns to read" 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z

Wilson, second-in-command at the US embassy in Baghdad but in charge while the ambassador was out of the country, appeared at a press conference with an improvised noose around his neck. Fair Game: Free agents 2011-03-06T22:30:01Z

He began signing up — usually at the last minute — for end-of-semester showings, presenting partially improvised solos. ‘Artists Are Migrants’: A Nigerian-Irish Dancer’s Multiplicities 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z

In another improvised part of the program, Mr. Ligeti created intriguing textures by rubbing his mallets against the cymbals. Review: Lukas Ligeti’s Disparate Interests, on Display at the Stone 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Its publicity promises comedians improvising to Horne's backing band. The Horne Section ? review 2011-02-16T15:22:04Z

It’s easier for me to improvise because I’ve been in the editing room so much; it’s given me a narrative pulse. Mark Duplass Is the Hardest Working Man in Hollywood 2012-06-14T10:00:41Z

All the dialogue is improvised, which gives the film a raw, honest feeling of actors digging into their shared creations but inevitably engenders a static, theatrical air. Late September – review 2012-06-16T23:09:01Z

The film works just fine as an anthology of amiable encounters and improvised collaborations. Review: Agnès Varda and JR Travel in the Present, Glancing at the Past 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z

Though “Succession” is carefully scripted, the actors are encouraged to improvise and play around with alternative dialogue. Matthew Macfadyen Has Mixed Feelings About the End of ‘Succession’ 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z

Pugh, following her muse, improvised a Yorkshire accent for the part. Florence Pugh’s True Hollywood Fairy Tale 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z

This past Sunday, she performed in London alongside the American poet Moor Mother in a series of improvised duets. Madness, Royalty and the Music of Screams 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

"I don't have so much to say, so I kind of have to improvise a little and just to let the feelings I have kind of come out into words," von Trier said. Von Trier stirs up Cannes with Hitler, Nazi quips 2011-05-18T13:34:10Z

And neither the art world nor the world of noncommercial dance is much more hospitable to an improvising street dancer, at least not one with Storyboard’s out-of-the-ordinary qualities. Storyboard P: Where Is the Place for a Genius of Street Dance? 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

The Dutchman improvised the final soliloquy from screenwriter David Peoples’ far less lyrical original script, and it instantly changes everything we’ve seen thus far. The good, the bad and the cyborgs: Westworld's robot forbears 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z

It’s a musical about having the right to choose who you want to be, in a country so riven by tribalism that improvising a new racial persona can seem the most subversive act imaginable. Review | Get a load of the exuberant new sister act: Mary and Martha Clarke, singing outlaw heroes of ‘Gun & Powder’ 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

BST13:39 Surprise first runner-up Angry Indian Goddesses is a largely improvised comedy about women in Goa who bond on the eve of their friend’s wedding. Toronto film festival 2015: watch the awards ceremony with us - live! 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

Alexis was not cast by the last scene of the first series, so Miller dressed an extra briefly posing as the character in a stock suit and improvised hat with concealing veil. Nolan Miller obituary 2012-06-12T11:35:25Z

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

Marty says 'Sure', so I went on to this set, 300 yards of a recreated Parisian street in Shepperton, complete with traffic and 200 extras, and improvised. Kevin Eldon: the bridesmaid becomes a bride 2013-03-13T18:59:01Z

"She is a very spontaneous player who is improvising - it is quite close to how I imagine music making." Violinist Benedetti: Populism to promote music is okay 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z

With a strong, articulate, Betty Carter-like voice, she improvises with her group, telling stories and pulling words apart; the songs, some autobiographical, move through free jazz and some swing and blues language. CareFusion, Vision, Undead and Other Jazz Fests 2010-06-10T22:15:00Z

When she makes corzetti, she improvises, using a patterned rolling pin to create an impression on pasta dough and detailed Hammer Song cookie cutters to cut out whimsical shapes. These traditional Italian pasta shapes are stunning — and easy to make. Here’s how. 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z

Over the course of several episodes, tap shares the stage with ballet; at times, the dancers improvise. Review: A Ballerina With Jazz in Her Bones Takes Over 2022-03-06T05:00:00Z

After the war, Mr. Fo became a stage designer and was swept up by the piccolo teatri, or small theaters, movement, which emphasized improvised monologues on social issues presented at affordable prices. Dario Fo, Nobel-Winning Italian Playwright, Dies at 90 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

It’s mostly improvised, and all manner of absurdity occurs along the way — from hosting a live fetish party to giving haircuts to members of the studio audience. Meet the next comedian to change late-night forever: Chris Gethard, talk show renegade for the Tumblr generation 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

Did you write the story beforehand, or just improvise as you went? Luke Wilson: How I Made My Award-Winning Short Film Satellite Beach 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

It was shot in black and white in three weeks, on a very low budget, with some of the dialogue improvised . Brian G Hutton 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z

Another comedian, Jessica Delfino, closed her set by donning a sweatband and performing improvised aerobics to the song “Let’s Get Physical” while swallowing fistfuls of M&M’s. Urban Athlete: Laughing Off the Pounds 2011-01-27T23:29:19Z

Just a couple of weeks in, though, Izzard is already improvising at the start in German. Grappling German grammar, Eddie Izzard proves humor can travel 2014-01-29T15:27:11Z

He started improvising, going into an almost meditative state, he said, creating a sprawling four hours of score that he spent the past year writing and recording with top Hollywood studio musicians. How Ludwig Goransson Became Directors’ Secret Musical Weapon 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z

Plans also include a redesigned outdoor play space, swapping a standard basketball court, for example, with multiple hoops for improvised games. Getting Acrobatic at Club Med 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

On this tune the tenor saxophonist Chad Lefkowitz-Brown improvises with a combination of breezy insouciance and sharp rhythmic assurance. The Playlist: The 1975 Talk About Its Generation, and 9 More New Songs 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

“My first two movies with him were so improvised, and this one was so scripted,” he said. Texas Monthly: Austin Filmmaker Bob Byington?s ?Somebody Up There Likes Me? to Open at SXSW 2012-03-04T05:10:04Z

The most star struck I was was just by the performers I looked to and were improvising. Shannon O’Neill charts UCB’s power to make a performer Twitter-stalked 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

The simple fact of Morgan being up there to talk, read a cue card and improvise with a camel felt like a miracle. Saturday Night Live: Tracy Morgan gives longtime fans cause to celebrate 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

So while Cervantes provided a starting point, the rappers improvised lyrics that focused mostly on personalities and issues of today, like political corruption in Spain and drug violence in Mexico. Rapping for Cervantes, for the Glory of It 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

With an acrid, lightly distorted sound and a habit of subtly stirring psychedelia and country rock into his dexterous improvising, Scofield has been one of jazz’s leading guitarists since the 1970s. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-11-22T05:00:00Z

“The idea is that I don’t have to think about it, because that would hinder my improvising,” she explained. 10 Fall Pop and Jazz Albums (and One Festival) You Shouldn’t Miss 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

Cream played their own tunes and a mix of traditional blues songs, with long, often improvised instrumental breaks. Jack Bruce, bassist with 1960s British rock group Cream, dies at 71

Chinese laborers in the 20th century were generally not allowed to be buried at Lima's Catholic cemeteries, forcing them to improvise burial sites, according to Peru's Culture Ministry. At ancient pyramid in Peru, remains of 20th century Chinese laborers found 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z

The Ensemble Basiani improvises and tunes its songs in traditional ways, replicating the performance styles heard on old recordings. music: In Georgia, Sacred Chants Reverberate Once Again 2010-08-06T22:14:00Z

If you’re going to improvise in jazz, your knowledge of harmony and theory has to be even deeper than that of a classical player. ‘Color of Water’ author, James McBride, reflects on race, politics and his new book 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z

Then, as Cohen and Versace entered into improvised dialogue, they became increasingly playful, with Mashiach and Pinciotti following suit and building to a reprise of the giddy duet, this time with piano and bass backing. At the Hamilton, clarinetist Anat Cohen and her quartet explode with intensity 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z

Marino then improvises all the action, props and costumes, drawing, of course, on the talents of a whole crop of fresh young stars. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

He conducts symphony orchestras, and he tours with a 12-piece vocal ensemble who play entirely improvised concerts. Bobby McFerrin gets vocal 2010-05-06T22:05:00Z

They took some of the stuff I improvised and melded it into the show. Andrea Savage on "I'm Sorry" season 2: "Your whole life turns to s**t when your kid learns to read" 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z

His work feels so wonderfully improvised that it’s hard to boil down into a style. R. Sikoryak’s “Get the Picture” 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

With his expressive, flexible approach to tempo and dynamics, Furtwängler breathed the structure of a whole piece into each of its measures, while making each measure sound as if improvised. A Conductor’s Impossible Legacy 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z

The son of Peruvian and Puerto Rican immigrants, he grew up in East Harlem and the Bronx doing the cha-cha and the samba at family gatherings, where he'd improvise on the dance floor. At 85, choreographer Rudy Perez is still inspired by the rhythms of everyday life 2015-11-06T05:00:00Z

The three musicians will jam — okay, improvise — together at one point in the concert, and will also interpret classical and contemporary solo works for their instruments. At Freer, old instruments from Asia will come together 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z

Jimmy Eat World doesn’t digress, improvise or otherwise fool around; it played 24 songs in 95 minutes. Two decades in, Jimmy Eat World is still all business 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Eventually, you bring that all up to the present day, and at a suitable time you start improvising with the other actors, parts of their lives, their shared lives, developing a shared history together. 'Another Year,' another improvised Mike Leigh script 2011-01-21T00:28:50Z

Midway through, the song moves through an improvised limbo and coalesces into a different tune: a march with lyrics about a messianic “blackstar” who also declares “I’m not a popstar.” Review: ‘Blackstar,’ David Bowie’s Emotive and Cryptic New Album 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

She learned to cook her Italian husband’s favorite dishes including spaghetti bolognese and rabbit and polenta, and improvised to create unforgettable family dinners at every occasion. Here's What Chelsea Peretti Is Thankful For 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z

The father of Jack Sweet, who was only 19 when he was killed by an improvised explosive device in Jawwalah, Iraq, in 2008, showed Gilbertson a laundry hamper overflowing with his son’s unwashed clothes. The rooms left behind when soldiers’ lives are lost

It is a succession of improvised sculptures that bear witness to the history of the diaspora and of civil rights, the contributions of Black people and events shaping the country. Saving the Artwork of the South: Deep Investment, and a Drone 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z

The show, which ran from 1995 to 2002 on Comedy Central, allowed Katz to psychoanalyze his funny friends and celebrity guests through a combination of repurposed stand-up bits and improvised dialogue. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z

In “Come to the Dark Side” Mr. Korsrud deftly improvised soaring fanfares and racing, spiraling lines on trumpet over the orchestra’s Morse-code chatter and funky grooves. | American Composers Orchestra: Louis Andriessen and Orchestra Underground at Zankel Hall 2010-04-11T21:04:00Z

Still, many animators have solved their internet and equipment problems by improvising. Improvisation Is the Heart of Cuban Animation 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

Then some classical Romantic fantasias, leading into aggressive versions of Thelonious Monk’s “Think of One” and Freddie Hubbard’s “Birdlike”; he sang along to his rhapsodic improvising and beatboxed against his rhythms. Critic's Notebook: Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition 2011-09-13T06:51:04Z

On May 11, 2005, Grant’s amphibious assault vehicle struck an improvised explosive device. Ruben Gallego made mental health part of his campaign. Specifically, his own. 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z

That line of dialogue in this largely improvised show won’t make the final cut. Welcome back to ‘Portlandia’ 2012-12-07T22:51:55Z

Most of these clips show her twirling alone, in a loose, visibly improvised style, on the marble floor of her California home. Britney Spears Has Always Fought Back. By Dancing. 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z

“So I gave her the improvised music I had done with my son, and lo and behold, we got a record deal,” he says. John Carpenter goes from behind the camera to center stage 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

McConaughey’s book provided good fodder for their blend of improvised skits, dramatic reading and general silliness. ‘Celebrity Book Club’ Goes Live 2022-02-09T05:00:00Z

And that’s why Ratti used it to improvise on a lifetime of rage and despair within a few feet of a police line. Perspective | In pain and rage, a protester approached police. And then he danced. 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z

So I’m starting to find my way toward playing the Carter quartets with musicians who improvise. Ljova?s Straightforward Career Has Quirky Turns 2010-08-06T17:03:00Z

But when it all falls into place, nothing beats the experience of improvising music in an unusual space, a place with an atmosphere, an inherent otherness. A man, a theremin and a horde of London Bridge commuters 2010-08-26T21:14:00Z

At an early age he began to improvise and compose at the piano. John Tavener, Composer and Seeker, Dies at 69 2013-11-12T18:20:35Z

"Bruce and Neil are cut from the same cloth," he said, improvising "with great, emotional passion." Nils Lofgren: Eye-popping past, poignantly present 2011-07-03T21:31:04Z

Two of this award season’s most unique contenders triumphed Sunday night, as the dark dramedy “Promising Young Woman” and the heavily improvised “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm” took honors at the Writers Guild of America ceremony. ‘Promising Young Woman’ and ‘Borat’ Win at Writers Guild Awards 2021-03-21T04:00:00Z

Mr. Kendall plays in Time for Three, a busy, eclectic improvising trio. Music Review: A String Ensemble at Play: Body Language and Sheer Exuberance 2011-01-09T23:01:27Z

Because of her background in the church – from improvising on the piano while her father preached to riffing vocally in response to an enraptured congregation – Franklin wasn’t bound by the strictures of pop. Aretha Franklin, America and the origin of the 'spirit feel' 2012-10-29T18:23:00Z

If I want to improvise, or go off on a tangent, I quickly come to my limit. Funny foreigners: how overseas comics are storming Edinburgh 2010-08-17T20:31:00Z

The craftiness was perhaps exemplified by an accelerated way with the ingredients and a readiness to improvise. Michael Bukht obituary 2011-08-07T17:29:31Z

She said, "I don't know about improvising in the '30s, and I said, "Madame, hold my earrings. From "Perry Mason" to "Severance," Jen Tullock explores the various shades of "American loneliness" 2023-03-20T04:00:00Z

Brian Williams "Behind the Scenes" at "30 Rock" While his faux-bombing of the TGS audition was funny in the final cut of the episode, you can see Williams improvise the dialogue here. Is Brian Williams as funny as journalists think he is? 2011-04-25T14:40:00Z

They make you feel comfortable enough to improvise, as long as it serves the story. Stephen Graham: ‘The Irishman was my Champions League final’ 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z

“Look, if you’re in any pain and you pick up a guitar that you love, your pain goes away,” he said as he improvised a riff on a custom-built PRS. U.S. guitar maker PRS resumes hand-building instruments - at a safe distance 2020-05-19T04:00:00Z

Did you get to improvise any of the things David does to pass the time? Prometheus Star Michael Fassbender on His Robotic Role and Why He Believes in Aliens 2012-06-06T10:45:25Z

Finally, improvising, Philip finds the wedge that works: he tells Stan about the Jennings’s scheme to expose the enemies of Gorbachev, which offers Stan the opportunity to see them not as enemies, but as allies. “The Americans” Finale Was Elegant, Potent, and Unforgettable 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

Now we follow them into improvised shelters: a cold cellar, a CrossFit gym. ‘20 Days in Mariupol’ Review: Last Witnesses in a Martyred City 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z

Q: You have to have a quick mind to improvise, especially with this source material. Steve Carell hopes you want to throw up after seeing ‘The Big Short’ 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

The actors describe an atmosphere on set of profound trust on — not insignificant, because Larraín is known for asking performers to improvise new ideas. Director Pablo Larraín is this awards season's double threat with 'Jackie' and the poet caper 'Neruda' 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

The film is sharp at illustrating how Sara is never totally safe, and how survival requires improvising again and again. ‘My Name Is Sara’ Review: Keeping Secrets in Close Quarters 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

It was Cage’s idea to improvise the breakup line that mixed profanity and Valley Girl slang, and to spit his chewing gum at Julie’s preppy ex, Tommy. When ‘Valley Girl’ (and Nicolas Cage) Shook Up Hollywood 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z

The playwright recalled on Monday that Williams stuck to the script despite his well-known tendency to improvise. Robin Williams: A comic actor with classical training 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z

It’s highly mathematical counterpoint that still feels improvised. Cardi B’s All-Star Team-Up, and 9 More New Songs 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z

It has two harassed parents, a trio of precocious children and several scenes containing humorously improvised dialogue. Connolly's 'joy' at being Outnumbered 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Mr. Mahanthappa improvised heroically here, with a choppy flow and an almost serrate intonation. Music Review: At the Jazz Standard, a Tribute to Dizzy Gillespie 2010-04-02T22:54:00Z

Professionally comfortable with improvising, the D.J.s make for affable company. Movie Listings for April 1-7 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z

Q: Give me an example of one of the film’s improvised moments. Steve Carell hopes you want to throw up after seeing ‘The Big Short’ 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

Mr. Trifonov began to improvise, almost imperceptibly merging the themes of the Rhapsody and the Second Concerto, the other work on his first, sold-out program. Daniil Trifonov, New to Rachmaninoff, but a Bold and Youthful Echo 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

The OSS flights afforded him a little more flexibility, and more opportunity to improvise. Still flying at 97: Autobiography recounts WWII pilot’s life 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z

Consequently the story, which involves a quest for magic beans and golden eggs, feels improvised and diffuse. Movie Review: ?Puss in Boots? With Antonio Banderas - Review 2011-10-27T21:48:54Z

Julian Lage is a guitarist with spring in his step, the sort of improvising musician who radiates ease and good feeling even on tricky terrain. The Playlist: The xx Return in a Brighter Mood 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z

The centerpiece of this evening of comedy is an improv show featuring two coming-out stories, each followed by an improvised set based on that story. Comedy in NYC This Week 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

Most of the artists here are not represented by galleries, and the works range from solemn and polished to haphazard and improvised. In NYC This Weekend? Here Are 2 Art Shows, 2 Operas and 5 Plays 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z

This largely improvised movie, a fiction that has documentary elements, was shot on a sea voyage to Antarctica, with actors mingling among the other passengers. ‘Red Knot,’ About a Voyage to Antarctica 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z

The relentlessly violent gameplay focuses largely on using improvised weapons to clear a path through waves of zombies, under the watchful eye of the clock. Dead Rising 2 2010-09-23T23:05:00Z

Though Ms. Harper, the movement director, created the “Let Go” line dance and a few other distinct phrases, she also wanted her dancers to improvise, and stay connected to the crowd. Nick Cave Wants You to Work It Out on the Dance Floor 2018-06-08T04:00:00Z

Even on Mr. Anderson’s “Hurricane Birds,” when Mr. Evans improvises in punched notes and unlinked phrases, a springy groove takes hold. The Bad Plus Greet the New Year With a New Lineup 2018-01-03T05:00:00Z

Mr. Smith, improvising, responded to the changing music with passion and ferocious technique. ‘Transformation: Rhythm’s Roots’ Explores Black History 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

While away, fans were treated to an improvised jam among the three Van Halens onstage. Van Halen plays on Hollywood Blvd., David Lee Roth sustains nose wound 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

It’s generating some of the most invigorating improvised music around. Latin Jazz is Booming. Look Beyond the Grammys to Find It. 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

The most unexpectedly delightful feature is the three-member band of stage musicians — playing a saxophone, an accordion and a tangy violin — that adds vibrant improvised interjections in different folkloric idioms. Review: ‘Pinocchio,’ the Opera, Is a Hit For a Renovated Theater 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z

They’re naturalistic in performance, but not heavily improvised – though the story can sometimes change after they finish filming. The Carpetbagger: Spike Jonze, Video Game Character 2013-12-20T17:25:33Z

The most reductive observation I can provide about the composer and improvising multi-instrumentalist Henry Threadgill’s activity at Roulette this weekend is that he debuted some truly exciting new chamber music. Review: Henry Threadgill’s Music From Two Perspectives 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z

Their voices have a lyrical poise akin to Jamal’s own; he improvises throughout, leaving himself some solo space between verses. Two New Recordings by Two Jazz Greats 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z

Then we improvised with the Rolodex, writing new numbers on the back of old cards. Beyond the green in Palm Springs: The desert is Coachella Valley’s true oasis 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z

Smith, commenting after the show, said his work was improvised in about half the program, with Brown's piece heavily improvised. Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation's 'Off the Cuff' 2011-08-05T18:08:03Z

With help from Brian Chase of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, he tuned his drums in fourths to maximize their harmonic potential and recorded himself improvising rapid, rumbling patterns over and over again. Kid Millions? New Solo Album Has Maximum Drumming 2010-06-22T21:32:00Z

But there’s also the special fascination of life in an improvised state: How do they manage to send mail abroad? 5 Art Accounts to Follow on Instagram Now 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

Each dancer got a chance to convey individual character during extended improvised solos. ‘Flamenco Men II’: A sequel that’s actually better than the original 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z

He sees jazz as a wide grid: a 100-year-old longitude and a latitude that extends to Michael Jackson, Sun Ra and free improvising. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-09-05T21:33:00Z

And he fell right into step with Mr. Kellso, digging into improvised counterpoint and on-the-spot riffs. Music Review: The Ear Regulars, Jazz Group at the Ear Inn, South Village 2010-04-26T22:50:00Z

“We just kind of liked the idea of the whole range there. And trying to make the statement that Brahms could exist in the same place as something being improvised in the moment.” Orchestras Looking to Broaden Horizons? Start Improvising 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

While Mr. von Bothmer usually watches a movie several times before accompanying it in public, taking notes on crucial plot twists and moments of melodrama, he said he still partly improvises in those shows. A Waltz for a Soccer Game? This Composer Sets the World Cup to Music 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

“The idea of what is composed and what is improvised is pointless,” Mr. Sorey said. Is It Jazz? Improvisation? Tyshawn Sorey Is Obliterating the Lines 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

“Fragments,” a 2006 concerto dedicated to Bach and Thelonious Monk, features an improvised piano solo. Black Composers Discuss the Role of Race 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z

At Mitchell’s behest, she began conducting, improvising and, increasingly, composing. A Composer Puts Her Life in Music, Beyond Labels 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z

A duet not yet completed, partially composed but largely improvised. She Was My World, but We Couldn’t Marry 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z

It was a creative breakthrough but also a doubling down, throwing her particle-based, detail-oriented style of avant-garde improvising into conversation with a wildly diverse group of collaborators. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z

“It’s difficult to describe. When I improvise with Diana or alone, I push myself to sing things I haven’t done before. I’m really into it. I like being in that mood.” Tony Bennett and Diana Krall Croon and Contrast on New Duet Album 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z

Without breaking character he aims for a balance between prepared and improvised material that results in something loose and spontaneous without veering into indulgence. Critic’s Notebook: Judah Friedlander’s Stand-up Comedy 2012-09-05T22:20:35Z

In improvised venues, the revelers gorge themselves all night long. Can Food Help Women Resist the Patriarchy? This Novel Says Yes 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z

You go on stage, and you don't know what character the audience is going to have, and it's almost like improvising with a new person every single night. 'I felt I didn't deserve success' 2011-01-30T00:05:33Z

We had dialogues, like a jazz band that keeps improvising. William Lubtchansky obituary 2010-05-12T18:07:00Z

During decades of depression and inflation, multiculturalism, conservatism and AIDS, she and her colleagues lived improvised lives on the city’s fringes. Art Review: Julie Ault’s Collection Displayed at Artists Space 2013-12-19T23:04:45Z

The director also appreciated her ability to improvise, noting that the actress did not hesitate to rework a line of dialogue because she felt it was wrong for the character. Katie Holmes, armed and dainty in vigilante satire 'Miss Meadows' 2014-04-23T13:04:51Z

It even includes a 2004 daguerreotype made from a 1985 self-portrait of the artist as a young man with a tattooed chest and an improvised Mohawk. Review: In ‘Fatal Attraction,’ Piotr Uklanski’s Unblinking Gaze 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

Hanky Panky has a cocktail menu, but like many bars in Belgrade, bartenders improvise based on each customer’s taste. Is This the New Cocktail Capital of Europe? 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z

He lightened up the rhythm section, replacing piano with guitar, and cut back on improvised solos. Larry Elgart, Who Kept Swing Up to Date, Dies at 95 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

Ms. Rosenbloom’s following remains small, even by improvised music standards, but since the album’s release in October she has started to establish a foothold in the left wing of New York’s jazz scene. For Mara Rosenbloom, Piano as a Remedy and a Force in Jazz 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z

The cast came together for a workshop prior to production, and then improvised as the cameras rolled. Lynn Shelton: 'I never imagined I could be a filmmaker' 2012-05-12T22:34:37Z

There’s tequila-soaked betrayal, armies, and massive weaponry that takes the violence way beyond improvised duels, robberies, and old grudges in Sweetwater. Here Are 11 Key Revelations From Last Night's 'Westworld' 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

This summer was Spain’s “Kind of Blue” moment: A satisfying and glorious artistic culmination of years of rhythmic practice, virtuoso talents improvising their way to brilliance as we’ve watched. Physics and culture collide 2012-07-13T18:32:00Z

A lot of the film was improvised, which must have been challenging. Laia Costa: ‘We were doing this scene the whole night and in the end we couldn’t stop’ 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

Williams Niles describes it as "earthy, gritty, visceral and physical, with some improvised elements." Music Center's Moves After Dark about contemporary dance, architecture 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

Wolf Eyes is essentially an improvising rock trio with crude electronics and no drummer; it has often been called a noise band, and is certainly not a metal band. Made in Detroit, Differing Music Models 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

It seems to mirror the action of tides, with accelerating tempos, crescendos, choppy tone rows, superimpositions of fast over slow and vice versa, fluent and fantastically elegant improvising. New Music: New Music From Miguel Zen?n and Red Hot Chili Peppers 2011-08-29T22:37:58Z

They’re not only adding fresh jokes every night, but they must also react swiftly and in character to enthusiastic audience interrogation, as if they were improvising. ‘Shear Madness,’ Detoured by Success, Is Ready for Its New York City Debut 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

That definitely inspired me in so many ways, compositionally as well as just playing the piano and improvising. Chick Corea, the Master Mixer of Jazz’s Past and Future 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

And four-legged soldiers with the Department of Defense scour war zones for improvised explosive devices and other deadly contraptions. Don’t mind the wet nose: TSA enlists more dogs to screen passengers 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z

But such attention to detail was more satisfying in Storyboard P’s “Magna Carta Story,” an improvised piece seen Saturday afternoon that tried to translate Jay Z’s music into street dance. Dance Review: Yanira Castro and Storyboard P at BEAT Festival in Brooklyn 2013-09-15T22:08:52Z

Thoroughly fluent in the idioms, history and conventions of the medium, they set most of that assumed knowledge aside and improvise, avidly courting chance and accident. 'Light, Paper, Process' an inventive subversion of photography 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

In the middle of his address, he forgot his speech and was forced to improvise, but his audience never knew. 2010-01-09T04:08:00Z

I knew a lot of chords and how to read music and how jazz was constructed and how to improvise. Why I tried to be a punk 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The pure joy of performance is nowhere more ecstatically revealed these days than in this evening of improvised hip-hop, made stageworthy by “Hamilton” director Thomas Kail and a cadre of lightning-quick rap magicians. Perspective | Out of dozens and dozens of plays and musicals, these deserved the hottest spotlight 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z

“The first night I saw him improvising on stage, I thought, ‘God, I will never take chances like that. The tragic legacy of John Belushi: ‘He could have done anything' 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

These ingenious, improvised balls bounce like real ones for a few days before the air escapes. Jessica Hilltout Captures Africans? Love of Soccer 2010-07-07T22:10:00Z

The Script Tease Project Actors cold-read two pages of a new script then improvise the rest of the story. L.A. theater openings, April 16-23: 'The Walking Forest' and more 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

It almost felt improvised, and certainly very natural for big kid Ephra to make like a film star. The Honourable Woman recap: episode seven – The Hollow Wall 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

The saxophonist is a postbop player with the inevitable Coltrane and Wayne Shorter connections, but his improvising – a blend of steadily accumulating iron logic and slippery, light-toned lyricism – has a character all his own. This week's new live music 2013-01-26T06:00:08Z

Songs such as “Mess,” “Not the Same” and the improvised “Rock This ...” pleased a crowd looking for Folds’ more recognizable tunes. Ben Folds and yMusic play chamber pop at the Greek Theatre 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

In general, though, the choreographed sections, folding in some Lindy Hop steps, aren’t as alive as when the dancers improvise. Review: ‘Thelonious’ is a Tap Tribute to a Musician 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z

They improvised in the vein of Carpenter’s pioneering movie soundtracks, which he composed and played on synthesizer. John Carpenter goes from behind the camera to center stage 2016-07-10T04:00:00Z

Much of what they celebrated — aesthetic refinement; swing rhythm; sophisticated, blues-based improvising — was at the core of the Modern Jazz Quartet’s identity. Jon Batiste and Wynton Marsalis Prize John Lewis, and Each Other 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

But throughout the shooting of the movie I was trying to learn different things to improvise in Farsi. | Scoot McNairy 2013-01-02T17:00:01Z

His idea, he said, was that performers would take a bagatelle and, like improvising jazz musicians, make a full piece of it. Review: John Zorn Brings Avant-Garde Style to the Stone 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z

As they did on Like Crazy, Doremus and co-screenwriter Ben York Jones wrote a detailed outline for each scene without dialogue and rehearsed with the cast for several weeks while they improvised the words. Sundance film festival 2013: Breathe In – first look review 2013-01-21T17:42:59Z

“In my generation,” she said, “we saw ourselves as a tool for the choreographer, but our students will be asked to improvise, collaborate, create. We need to give them more tools.” ‘It’s About Connections’: Alicia Graf Mack Remakes Juilliard Dance 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z

The largely improvised Blue Valentine doesn't quite fit that description. Dark star 2011-01-08T00:05:01Z

Sitting outdoors, in 90-degree heat, she improvised a cooling method, soaking two napkins in ice water. Mary Karr calls liars on their lies and discusses 'The Art of Memoir' 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z

At first, free improvised music will sound like formless, pointless chaos. Evan Parker's musical utopia 2010-04-22T21:35:00Z

Kadyrov, whom human rights activists accuse of persecuting opponents, praised Seagal last month after the actor visited Chechnya and performed an improvised lezginka, a traditional Chechen dance in the capital, Grozny. Steven Seagal becomes the face of Russian arms firm 2013-06-05T12:44:00Z

I tell myself I’m improvising, but really, I’m panicking. Can you learn to cook like a chef by watching YouTube? 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

She writes with a seasoned sense of how doctors and nurses improvise in emergencies, and about the ethical realms in which they work. Books of The Times: ‘Five Days at Memorial,’ by Sheri Fink 2013-09-03T21:27:44Z

Last month alone, an A.I. artwork won a prize in Colorado and a computer program improvised a classical music solo in real time in New York City. A ‘Virtual Rapper’ Was Fired. Questions About Art and Tech Remain. 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z

But most of his moves are improvised; he dreams in dance moves. Lil Buck Expands Jookin’s World 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

What he learned was how to arrange, improvise and compose. Ljova?s Straightforward Career Has Quirky Turns 2010-08-06T17:03:00Z

From there, the movie recounts the early days of Wurlitzer organs and musicians improvising to silent movies for live audiences, before segueing into a brief, basic lesson in director-composer collaborations. Review: ‘Score: A Film Music Documentary’ Gives Composers Their Due 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

“It wasn’t the gentle school of English ‘after you, sir’ kind of improvising.” Peter Brötzmann, 82, Dies; His Thunderous Saxophone Shook Jazz Traditions 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Kahane conducted from a harpsichord, improvising an accompanying part, or continuo, to the symphony. Jeffrey Kahane Conducts New York Philharmonic Using iPad 2011-11-23T23:13:25Z

But when she sold the business for a substantial sum, she shifted her interests to the full-time pursuit of fashion—collecting, improvising, wearing, appearing. Albert Maysles Captures Iris Apfel’s Art of Style 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

Bud Powell’s important because he improvised like a horn player. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Bebop 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z

It’s that vim that has propelled Ms. Galás to continually breach the limits of music, improvising, mixing classical bel canto singing with demonic shrieks, muttering and glossolalic runs. Diamanda Galás, Still Wild and Primal, Returns to the New York Stage 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

The fact that, as one friend pointed out, the improvised drum tempos sporadically sounded like a recent Blawan record, was just a bonus. Bloc 2012: making music out of chaos 2012-07-09T16:48:00Z

A quick survey of my classmates’ improvised eating utensils confirms my inferior status. A wilderness survival course leaves a novice camper hungry, cold and triumphant 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

It’s kind of like we directly improvise their life. Shannon O’Neill charts UCB’s power to make a performer Twitter-stalked 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

Ms. Caesar improvised a lot, in phrasing and in text. Music Review: Improvising Concert Into Rousing Sermon 2011-01-15T00:00:10Z

It was the springtime benefit for the Institute of Contemporary Art here, and he was improvising to a string quartet. Lil Buck Expands Jookin’s World 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

Yeah, maybe the only improvised thing in the movie. Five actors on faking confidence, the Batsuit and tea breaks 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z

Dancers then improvised with the guidance of Brown’s five principles for the piece: Keep it simple, act on instinct, stay on the edge, work with visibility and invisibility, and get in line. A Trisha Brown Masterpiece, ‘Reset’ on an Inclusive Troupe 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z

Soon he was instructing several strangers to improvise a group interpretive dance in a hayloft. The Gaudy, Glittery, Gorgeously Subversive World of Taylor Mac 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z

Three riffs, improvised on the spot by clarinet, cello and percussion, enhanced the music’s variegated colors and sense of spontaneity. Review | Despite its troubles, BSO’s concert of American music is brilliant 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

It’s just about the musicians’ ability to use composed and improvised music to push from one exciting scenario to the next. Tedd Baker leads an explosive performance at Bohemian Caverns

I’m getting good at improvising so I looked for other diversions. On New Zealand’s Stunning West Coast, the Beauty Doesn’t Stop 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z

Music and motion are a unified impulse, a perfect whole, and every time she improvises, the history of tap meets its cutting edge. She’s the Queen of Tap. Is Her Moment Now? 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

Zora, after wielding an improvised weapon in a desperate, defensive rage, wiggles her arm in fatigue, as if she’d just completed a household chore. Review: Jordan Peele’s “Us” Is a Colossal Cinematic Achievement 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z

The roast potatoes her son improvises are, appropriately, “best made by a child under the age of 10.” Hunger Games: Three Memoirs Where Food Takes Center Stage 2019-01-01T05:00:00Z

Thanks to Selina’s improvising, as well as sometimes walking on the side of a busy road, which no cyclist ever wants to do, we made it to Szczecin. A cycling trail through Poland and Germany — and Soviet-era history 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

A version of Cherry’s “Art Deco” began with an unaccompanied duet, full of improvised counterpoint, between Mr. Rava and Mr. Petrella, the front line and core of the group. Music Review: Enrico Rava Quintet at Birdland 2012-02-25T00:10:47Z

Ms. Voigt improvised gestures in the musical’s politically incorrect American Indian ceremony scene and cracked that one character nicknamed Eagle Nose should instead consider herself endowed with a large “resonating chamber.” Opera Star Tries Doin? What Comes Natur?lly 2011-07-14T22:16:30Z

His play is a series of riffs, some of them pages long, and seemingly improvised duos and trios and quartets. August presence: Joe Turner's Come and Gone and back again 2010-06-15T09:32:00Z

They performed three numbers on Saturday; all were, we were told, improvised. Review: Gabriel Missé and Guillermina Quiroga, Together for the First Time 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

Mr. Cyrille had also provided musical accompaniment for classes associated with the June Taylor Dancers, improvising rhythmic cues for kinetic movement. Andrew Cyrille’s Late-Career Renaissance 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z

And then Jesse took control, improvising most of the lines and motions and letting his eyes guide me through the same. My gay art-porn debut 2012-06-23T02:00:00Z

The interview format is not a new one — that’s just interviewing someone and improvising off of it. Shannon O’Neill charts UCB’s power to make a performer Twitter-stalked 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

But the organ's associations with sanctity also robbed the central section of the Tannhäuser overture of its profanity, while Tristan, as improvised by Marshall, acquired some of the religious sweetness of Fauré. Proms 20 and 21: Wayne Marshall; OAE/Rattle 2010-08-02T12:44:00Z

The musicians, too, had some improvising to do. Review | Going to my first concert of the pandemic felt like preparing for battle. Then I got there. 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z

Like “Scanners,” but differently, “Under the Skin” was partly improvised. David Cronenberg's 'Scanners,' in a Blu-ray/DVD Edition 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

Forbidden Shakespeare: The Tempest Tom Hanks, William Shatner and other famous faces take the stage in a condensed, improvised version of the Bard’s fantasy tale in this fundraiser. The week ahead in L.A. theater, Sept. 17-24: 'Fixed,' 'The Red Shoes' and more 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z

Well, when I improvise, I don’t polish them at all. Patti Smith’s most personal interview: “The things that make me feel strange – I’ve transformed them into work” 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

As for me, the teacher said to improvise. A gay boy discovers his inner Faye Dunaway 2011-04-22T21:01:00Z

Simon didn’t read music until he enrolled at Morehouse College; he had learned by ear, improvising to accompany the Pentecostal congregation on Sundays and catching the right key as worshipers spontaneously sang in praise. The Composer Carlos Simon Is Busier, and More Honest, Than Ever 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z

“I always liked to improvise with dancers,” said Mr. Staley, who is a trombonist. Sally Silvers?s ?Prize Every Time? at Roulette in Brooklyn 2011-10-09T04:00:16Z

And while using that voice, stuff would happen while I was improvising what the drug might say. James Hannaham discusses drugs, slavery and 'Delicious Foods' 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z

It's like how Robert DeNiro and Jodie Foster were always rehearsing making "Taxi Driver" so she knew it inside out and she got bored with it, that's when he went off book and improvised. "The Informer" star on the "aggressive nature" of filming in prison 2020-11-06T05:00:00Z

“Get a camera and swing it around and get your actors to improvise,” he said. Paddy Considine Directs ?Tyrannosaur,? Starring Peter Mullan 2011-11-12T22:00:05Z

To Rocé, Archie's manner of musical engagement, "to listen and to watch the world, and then to improvise and adapt yourself to meet it," is a thoroughly political mode of being. At 81, jazz titan Archie Shepp’s legacy comes into clear focus 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

In my review I wondered what was improvised, what was borrowed from the franchise and what was real. Theater, Reality TV and What Is Stranger Than Fiction 2021-06-20T04:00:00Z

The trio spent the nights of December 6th and 7th making jittery, improvised art-rock. Play It Again (for the First Time) 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

Now, Johnson’s archive is the heart of Mr. Fuata’s improvised performance about the art of correspondence and long-distance relationships — even ones with long-dead artists. A Mail-Art Performance and Other Treats at Performa 15 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

Together they improvise growing up in Zanesville, Ill., in the 1970s, when the Magic 8 Ball actually didn’t have all the answers. Newly Released Books 2011-04-20T22:05:44Z

That would have already been a comedic feat for the three, but much of the production is also improvised — and so well that it’s hard to differentiate. ‘This American Wife’ Review: Wives Out, Knives Out 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z

They are part of the improv ensemble Baby Wants Candy, whose recent shows include the “Hamilton”-inspired “Shamilton,” a fully improvised musical comedy now running in Chicago. Sex! Savagery! Singing! It's 'Game of Thrones' as musical parody 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z

The mines dug to meet growing demand are often improvised, operated off the books and without permits. Dark crystals: the brutal reality behind a booming wellness craze 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z

And, at each show, I improvise a song. Q&A: Music innovator Imogen Heap 2010-06-11T16:15:00Z

By giving his improvised sung recitation a new intensity and elevating the importance of individual arias he could get the characters on stage to bare their innermost thoughts. Indecent exposure 2011-04-07T21:00:03Z

But pandemic improvising is only part of the damage control the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which puts on the Globes, finds itself dealing with this year. At bicoastal Globes on Sunday, ‘Borat’ could triumph 2021-02-27T05:00:00Z

Behind his blistering trumpet solos, revolutionary vocal improvising and exuberant stage persona, how did Louis Armstrong see himself? Louis Armstrong’s Life in Letters, Music and Art 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z

But when Ross Noble interrupted an interview to attack Jonathan Ross earlier this year, it was the catalyst for a gloriously silly improvised playfight. Jonathan Ross: his BBC highs and lows 2010-07-16T12:57:00Z

His improvised version of the gospel song Motherless Child evolved into Freedom at the festival and became an anthem of the 1960s hippy generation. Woodstock icon Richie Havens dies 2013-04-23T13:05:01Z

She recalled him spending nearly every Friday and Saturday evening during his high school years improvising at home with friends. Music: Nicolas Jaar, Electronic Musician and Student at Brown 2012-03-09T17:00:00Z

More than an emotional journey, creating "Reverse Thread" forced Carter to change her approach to improvising. Regina Carter takes her jazz violin on a jaunt around the world 2010-05-20T20:12:00Z

What remained in his playing was startling: a smooth legato in his improvising, dynamically even, almost lapidary; a manner of accompanying soloists so silky it was almost provocative. Peter Bernstein Quartet at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z

The contemporary soundtrack Tagaq improvises for the film provides a stark juxtaposition between the old stereotypes and the modern reality of Inuit life. Feminist performance series brings Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq to the Broad 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z

One inspired evening Francine, completely out of the blue, took an improvised world tour, announcing she had gotten a group rate from the Hadassah girls. ArtsBeat: ‘Taking a Taxi’: Remembering Mickey Rooney on Broadway 2014-04-08T16:25:02Z

Much consideration is also given here to Coleman’s break with bebop in insisting one could improvise without chords. ‘Fire Music’ Review: An Impassioned Case for Free Jazz 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

When improvised music comes wild and untethered, as theirs often does, some listeners lose their bearings. For Jazz Musicians in 2021, Two Was the Magic Number 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z

In some of our more heavily improvised scenes, she was right there with us. "Maisel" and "Veep" star Reid Scott on why he loves playing "the bully types" 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z

I improvise a lot and come from a big improv background. "The Big Door Prize's" Chris O'Dowd: "Being Irish has been nothing but an absolute gift" 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z

"He didn't want me to improvise at all." Johnny Mathis — time for a full-scale comeback? 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

Looking back, that improvised insertion of "The Banana Boat Song" into this excerpt is fitting. "A song of rebellion": How Harry Belafonte's dance with fame fed a life of activism 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

This show takes animal antics to a new level, with actual pets taking part in improvised comedy. Comedy in NYC This Week 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

Her sassy, improvised dialogue and her vulnerability touched audiences and critics, many of whom were desperate to find a glint of redeeming light in a relentlessly sordid film. Holly Woodlawn, Transgender Star of 1970s Underground Films, Dies at 69 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

“Some sections I play the same most of the time,” Mr. Hamasyan writes in a program note, “but many others are fully improvised.” Review: Roomful of Teeth Stretches for a Piano Premiere 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

It sometimes feels as if the performers had been given situational stereotypes to embody and were then instructed to improvise variations on subjects like “male abuses of power” and “economic entrapment.” Review: In the Hotel in ‘Zürich,’ Room Service Comes With a Bang 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z

It wasn’t even from the song’s melody; it was part of Iyer’s improvised solo on the recording. Vijay Iyer’s New Trio Is a Natural Fit. Its Album Is ‘Uneasy.’ 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z

Because Graham was a very good standup comedian and comedy writer, he freely improvises, so each show may contain different stories. Review: Comic loser in 'This Too Shall Suck' wins 2013-01-29T01:10:09Z

Which is a bit like improvised theatre, I suggest hopefully. Going out by staying in: where to watch the arts online 2010-07-25T20:31:00Z

My favorite moment looked unscripted — the German actor is known to fly off on improvised limbs — but actually wasn’t. Best Theater of 2022 2022-12-05T05:00:00Z

Horn lines rise and intertwine with the voices, starting to improvise. New Music: Skrillex Releases ‘Recess’; Dan Weiss’s ‘Fourteen’ 2014-03-17T21:45:45Z

But Hearn’s partially improvised creations have a delicacy and immediacy that somehow make you more aware of, and enchanted by, their fleetingness. A Raucous New Festival, With a Friends and Family Vibe 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

Only now, when he swordfights while improvising a poem, the poem is as percussive as a rap and the sword is merely a hand mic. Review: ‘Cyrano de Bergerac,’ Now Noseless and Drunk on Words 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

It's hard not to think that Freeway also ate the movie's real script, leaving the actors to desperately improvise, or that he ran off because he got tired of hearing the dialogue. 'Darling Companion': Did the dog eat the script of this 'dog'? 2012-05-03T20:17:04Z

I remember going to a few shows just after 9/11 and finding comfort in this weird, futuristic, improvised America. The Critic Who Convinced Me That Criticism Could Be Art 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

Then I began writing parts that suited the personalities in the group, and from there I began improvising and learning how to play by ear. Ljova?s Straightforward Career Has Quirky Turns 2010-08-06T17:03:00Z

It looks as if the song itself is improvised, made up on the spot, out of pure excitement, pure well-being, pure love of life. Stanley Donen: a Hollywood blueblood treasured for Singin' in the Rain 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z

At meetings at their various homes in New York, Los Angeles, Ireland, and France, the four creators began improvising dialogue, lyrics and whole scenes. ?Spider-Man? Starts to Emerge From Web of Secrecy 2010-11-23T23:22:00Z

Its USP is to play concerts where every note is completely improvised. Bobby McFerrin gets vocal 2010-05-06T22:05:00Z

In a studio at the REACH, a jazz band will improvise music based on what the audience draws. Mo Willems brings a little silliness into the Kennedy Center’s storied halls 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z

He growled loudly when improvising melodies: that alone, for many listeners, is a swift deal breaker. Masabumi Kikuchi Finds New Direction With ?Sunrise? 2012-03-25T01:43:04Z

“I was very, very close to staying here,” Mr. Clausen said after his group had yielded the floor to a series of improvised responses, according to Racer Sessions protocol. Alt-Rock Hub, Purring With Jazz 2010-08-26T19:16:00Z

Though he’s comfortable with Mr. Pérez — known to many here simply as Maestro — improvising onstage with him at the club “was terrifying,” Mr. Batista said afterward. Danilo Pérez Builds a Magnet for Musicians in Panama 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

At first we see him ginning up a few improvised scraps of chords at the piano. Nowhere Man: Nick Cave, 20,000 Days on Earth and the Nature of the Unknowable Man 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

In one day, the improvised Rozzo shop sold 100 pounds of drumfish from the Gulf of Mexico, which doesn’t often swim as far north as Chelsea. A Quarantine Surprise: Americans Are Cooking More Seafood 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

They improvise in order to create material for their shows. Comedian Jeff Garlin isn't afraid of political correctness 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z

After high school, she joined the seminal company Jazz Tap Ensemble, learning to choreograph and to improvise with live music. She’s the Queen of Tap. Is Her Moment Now? 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

Ballet isn’t like contemporary dance, where the dancers are constantly using the time with the choreographer to improvise and develop material that way. Wendy Whelan, Ballerina of Architectural Bearing 2012-01-22T05:20:06Z

At his core, Attell is a high-octane, no-frills joke machine, a delivery system for punch lines, some improvised, but a vast majority rigorously honed. Dave Attell Is Our Greatest Club Comic (Says the Writer He Made Fun Of) 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, younger gallerists are improvising and a trend for “apartment galleries,” where art lovers with large, cheap apartments, let artists exhibit their work, is booming with the younger arts crowd. Scene/ Seen: Berlin: Once East German Gritty, Now Slick, but Still Artsy 2010-12-18T08:00:03Z

He may have had no choice because the actors improvised a portion of it, working from a 50-page outline that Mr. Doremus wrote with Ben York Jones. | 'Like Crazy': ?Like Crazy? From Drake Doremus ? Review 2011-10-27T22:04:03Z

After that, we started improvising in the woods, at the Mill Brook Preserve. Claire Chase Uses Her New Platform to Showcase a Hero 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z

His health was poor, worn down by decades of moving around — to Europe, New Mexico, New York, Nova Scotia — and improvising a life. ‘Marsden Hartley’s Maine,’ His Muse, First and Last 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z

That discipline helped Pinhas create “Welcome in the Void,” a piece he worked on for months, improvising and adding parts until a fully shaped composition emerged. Lessons learned in a lifetime of experimental music

The setting — a municipal parking lot on the Lower East Side — plays the biggest role, challenging audiences and actors to focus and improvise and often leading to unscripted discoveries. | 'Cymbeline': ‘Cymbeline’ Unfolds in a City Parking Lot 2013-07-15T19:28:19Z

He improvised, with a simple, “Will you marry me?” A Sound Engineer, a Props Guy and Their ‘Beautiful’ Wedding 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

Crooked makes a passing reference in this song to Plato's philosophical text "Symposium," in which characters, including the philosopher Socrates, compete performing improvised speeches. Kanye may not like books, but hip-hop fosters a love of literature 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z

The artist juxtaposes familiar and unexpected, crisp and vaporous, planned and improvised. Review | In the galleries: Finding inspiration in a mythical herb 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

The primary story about Thursday’s improvised performance, apart from its connection to a room full of photographs, scores, films and ephemera outlining his life, was Mr. Taylor’s ties to the dancer Min Tanaka. Review: Cecil Taylor’s Mysteries Don’t Resolve at the 88th Key 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

Rehearsing and improvising with Brand "felt like playing", she says. Greenberg star Greta Gerwig steps from the shadows of mumblecore 2010-06-04T23:08:00Z

At that time they began the process of loosening the valves, and by the midpoint they were improvising in unbroken streams. Music Review: Honoring Heroes of Jazz, With Words, Silence and Improvisation 2010-06-25T23:44:00Z

The director then experimented with Pitt, Chastain and the three boys making their acting debuts in "The Tree of Life," improvising scenes and moments to create an impressionistic portrait of the family's life. Floodgates open for 'Tree of Life' star Chastain 2011-05-23T11:46:05Z

The compositions were also notable for a vital sense of momentum, with the scores featuring interludes improvised by Mr. Riley and Mr. Zeigler. Review: Gyan Riley Begins an Intimate Residency at the Stone 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

A show like the Short-Martin double act is likely to be improvised and unpredictable. Funny, yeah, but don't forget special 2011-06-09T19:33:00Z

That tediously obvious premise is given no illumination in this film, which was presumably largely improvised. | 'Art History': ?Art History,? Directed by Joe Swanberg ? Review 2011-09-23T04:13:02Z

It’s going to be rare to see the improvising drummer Tyshawn Sorey do anything mechanically or thoughtlessly at the Village Vanguard this week. Review: Tyshawn Sorey Goes His Own Way at the Vanguard 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

There’s improvising on a song within an idiom, like Sonny Stitt playing “I Got Rhythm,” or within a form or language, like raga or blues. Music Review: Darius Jones, Ryan Sawyer and Shahzad Ismaily at the Stone 2012-07-04T21:38:09Z

Renaud asks for take after take, unable to improvise when seemingly thwarted by Monk’s responses. ‘Rewind & Play’ Review: Thelonious Monk Dazzles Even When an Interview Falls Flat 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z

I just kind of improvised that line, and reached out a little bit, because this to me is a tragic love story, in many ways. ‘House of the Dragon’: Paddy Considine Won’t Watch Sunday’s Episode 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z

Or where a girl working at a coffee shop, clearly improvising while having only a limited knowledge of baked goods, starts frantically offering every customer a piece of cheesecake. Arnie's Governator is a guilty treat until TV's real muscle returns 2011-04-09T23:05:41Z

Mr. Cresswell had been the band’s percussionist; since he could only carry a few small drums, he began improvising on the street, which meant he would use surrounding objects as well. ‘Stomp’ Turns 25. Here Are 10 Things You Didn’t Know About It. 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z

It was a reversal that highlighted our own role as an audience in performing the normal, however improvised. Review | NSO musicians return to the Kennedy Center stage, and bring a welcome lightness 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z

Also on the lineup is the mischievous Sally Silvers, who plans to choreograph on the spot and improvise with her colleague Pooh Kaye. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z

In “And on the Thousandth Night …,” we’re improvising stories, and a lot of the fun in that piece is just watching people get trapped, improvising things that they clearly have no possibility to successfully complete. Their Latest Risk: Household Objects Playing Shakespeare 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

“It’s not traditionally a school that focuses on ‘improvised music’ and more contemporary playing and writing,” Ms. Davis said. Kris Davis, a Pianist Fighting for Fringe Music 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

This is irreverently staged in rough theatre fashion, with the cast strumming through Heather Fenoughty's folksy score and improvising with whatever bits and pieces come to hand. The Count of Monte Cristo 2010-04-23T20:30:00Z

Its footprint gradually expanded, and today the basement club is one of the city’s most treasured homes of improvised music, comedy and literary events. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z

Then the camera cuts to her in prison, in Litchfield, New York, wearing improvised flip-flops beneath a measly drizzle of water. The Disgusting Jail on 'Orange Is the New Black' 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z

He’s inventing all the time in the studio, improvising lyrics, dropping lyrics, making up bogus titles. Bob Dylan and the “Hot Hand” 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

Do stick around for the encores, which these players use to shoot off in unexpected directions with improvised takes on folk music, jazz or the Beatles. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: Here’s What Our Critics Want to Hear 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z

Improvisation has largely been left to the very occasional special guest, like the pianist Aaron Diehl — who, after studying both classical and jazz traditions, sometimes improvises during a Gershwin concerto. Orchestras Looking to Broaden Horizons? Start Improvising 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

We definitely improvised a bit in that scene. Zazie Beetz on ‘Atlanta,’ Her Emmy Nomination and Impostor Syndrome 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

Noble hammered a vivid chordal solo to keep up the heat, and Fishwick improvised with typical shapeliness, though he was somewhat swamped by the melee. Zhenya Strigalev – review 2012-06-15T17:40:01Z

“Maybe nothing. But if you improvise, maybe a lyric or a few bars.” At 89, Burt Bacharach is still making music 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

In addition to being an elite improvising pianist, Jason Moran is a keen programmer; his Carnegie survey of Black American music from the Great Migration was a well-attended success. Carnegie Hall’s New Season: What We Want to Hear 2023-02-28T05:00:00Z

“I heard all kinds of material in those recordings that I also heard in the people I was improvising with.” Roswell Rudd, in a Celebratory Mood, Reflects on His Winding Path 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z

Police allege the men had plans and schematics to make improvised explosive devices. Canadian terror arrests include 'Idol' contestant 2010-08-26T21:16:00Z

The problem was that when they improvised, magic would happen, but this messed up the whole structure of the film for me. Plan B talks about his Ill Manors 2012-06-06T05:36:14Z

In October 2020, Hopkins sat at the polished upright piano in the corner of his own studio, improvising to his first impressions of Dass’s words. Jon Hopkins’s Psychedelic Journey to a New Way of Creating Music 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z

Some improvising was encouraged, but Mr. Carell, who plays the doltish weatherman Brick opposite Will Ferrell’s Ron Burgundy in “Anchorman,” appreciated delving into a part. In ‘The Big Short,’ Adam McKay Uses Absurdity as His Guide 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

I learned that the film was shot in just 15 days and that not a single line of the free-flowing dialogue was improvised. Trailer Trash 2013-06-22T23:05:35Z

Just beyond the fence lay a set of improvised shacks, where music was playing. Memories of V. S. Naipaul 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z

In addition, 15 members of Constellation Chor, an improvising vocal ensemble, sing and whisper through acoustic megaphones. Review: The Jaap van Zweden Era Begins at the Philharmonic 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

It must have impressed Mullan, who allowed his cast of mostly untried actors plenty of room to improvise. Conor McCarron: 'I'd gladly audition for a comedy role' 2010-12-26T00:05:08Z

The second starts on a bass/drums gallop, briefly turns to a folksy improvised melody, then swells up over Prevost's cymbal-tingling groove almost into an orthodox jazz walk and a softly multiphonic close. Evan Parker/John Edwards/Eddie Prevost: All Told Vol 1 – review 2012-06-07T21:40:00Z

Yet Morgan and Robertson were merely improvising a response to an unexpected question — and trying to make their point strongly. Review | Should museums mount exhibitions with a moral agenda? Absolutely. If they do it well. 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

At the location I am the only one who is allowed to improvise. Shhh, Don't Tell Other Directors: Working With Kids Is Easy 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z

As it moves through its structure and classical-poetry text, the mugham allows singers and instrumentalists considerable freedom to improvise within its modes. Music Review | Alim Qasimov: At Asia Society, Mugham, the Classical Song of Azerbaijan 2010-03-15T21:39:00Z

In fact, Berlant’s comedy grew organically, a product of studying experimental performance at New York University, improvising at open mics at night and bringing the academic language from one into the other. Kate Berlant Can’t Hide Any Longer 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z

“Spellbeamed,” though intricately planned, felt refreshingly spontaneous, with exciting tension between the notated passages and the improvised ones. Music Review: Zeena Parkins and Ne(x)tworks Ensemble w/ JACK Quartet 2012-09-11T21:56:55Z

And about six years ago they started in earnest, improvising with abandon and playing all the characters as they went. In ‘Barb and Star,’ an ode to middle-aged joy and culottes 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z

Initially, the goal was to craft what he described as a "hard-bop" jazz sound, to channel the tight focus of fusion, specifically the wild, tightened jams between the improvised solos. Flying Lotus goes deep on 'You're Dead!' 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z

They first worked together in 2013 on “Open City,” a performance that was full of writing, rap and improvised music, and drew on text from Mr. Cole’s novel of the same name. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

TIME: Can we talk about all the improvising on the set. Oscar Surprise: Why a 5-Year-Old Actress Might Just Win Over the Academy 2012-12-20T10:45:26Z

Wine retailers across the country have pivoted from in-store sales to an improvised market plan of curbside pickup, local delivery and online sales. Retail wine sales surge as shop owners adjust to online selling 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

But improvised, wheezing, almost trippy passages emerge; the tight rhythmic order dissolves. Minimalist Composer Julius Eastman, Dead for 26 Years, Crashes the Canon 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

Drake said he was mighty pleased with Madge’s improvised smooch, but it’s hard to imagine a repeat performance now. Coachella preview: Weekend 2 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

For all its musical polish, though, the show is verbally shaggy; Etheridge isn’t reciting memorized text but rather improvising, storyteller-style, from an outline of the piece’s main points, which scroll by on her monitor. ‘My Window’ Review: An Out-and-Proud Trailblazer Finds Her Way 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z

The public-affairs network — not generally known for guerrilla journalism techniques — began to improvise. C-Span, Gun Control and a Protest Made for Streaming 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Mr. Williams unspooled at length in a few places, making his soloing rise continuously through a tune, improvising waves of rhythm through the bar lines. Music Review: Jamire Williams?s Band Erimaj Plays the Jazz Gallery 2010-04-19T21:53:00Z

The rapper liked what he heard and asked to turn the song into a duet of sorts, flying Arlissa out to LA to watch him record his mainly improvised verses. New music: Arlissa vs Nas – Hard to Love Somebody 2012-08-09T06:00:00Z

The locations remain secret until the last minute, as does the film to be shown, around which other frolics are based, including intricate sets and actors who improvise to recreate the film's plotline. Secret Cinema 2010-06-23T20:45:00Z

It didn’t have a melody yet, and he started improvising one in a crisp falsetto, his eyes closed. The Teen-Age Hitmaker from Westchester County 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Bhargava, who was born in Chicago and lived in New York, spent three years researching “Patang” and seven years making it, using mostly nonprofessional actors who improvised loosely from a script. Prashant Bhargava, Filmmaker of ‘Patang (The Kite),’ Dies at 42 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

The presenters and winners seemed to have more room to improvise and put their own spin on the evening — but mercifully, the show itself still managed to wrap up on time after just two hours. ?The Help,? Dujardin win at lively SAG Awards 2012-01-30T09:58:10Z

But Khambatta revealed it's not improvised but meticulously choreographed, with not a single move repeated. Seattle International Dance Festival displays Swiss movement 2012-06-03T19:49:03Z

“Even one element of the piece, when it’s improvised, gives quite a lot of different feeling,” he said. Orchestras Looking to Broaden Horizons? Start Improvising 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

Moran stayed out as Frisell improvised, starting with spare gestures and getting more creative, treating his solo like an engine being rebuilt one part at a time. Ron Miles Headlines the Village Vanguard, at Last, as the Club Reopens 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

A sharp, largely improvised mockumentary of police documentaries such as COPS, the show follows Lt Jim Dangle and his incompetent sheriff's department as they bungle case after case in Reno, Nevada. Catch-up TV Guide: from Line Of Duty to St Elsewhere 2012-07-27T23:05:00Z

Some of it is even improvised: they're just being themselves, it's practically a documentary. Outnumbered and How the Other Half Lives 2010-04-09T05:45:00Z

The instructors give a student a sudden illness or injury, forcing their comrades to improvise. How Washington became the nation’s busiest training ground for scandal PR 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z

I might improvise and ad lib a bit, as well. Glastonbury: 11 acts to watch 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

The integration of a child’s improvised drum with the show’s percussive score was a particularly effective touch. ‘Fargo’ Season 3 Finale: Bled Out 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z

Winter of Discontent's dialogue was improvised, said Waked. Film shows Egypt's "Winter of Discontent" spark hope 2012-08-13T13:33:17Z

That work includes improvised passages, and the memorization process here was mostly concerned with rules. Critic’s Notebook: Chiara Quartet Records Brahms by Heart 2014-03-28T21:55:47Z

None of which was an issue for the three improvising guitarists on the bill, each a distinct and irreducible highlight of the evening. Review: BRIC JazzFest in Brooklyn Wraps Up With a Mesh of Styles 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z

That is the only reason I was able to stay with them, because I'm an improvising pianist and musician. Celebrating "great songwriter" David Bowie's 75th birthday & introducing him to a new generation 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z

Deftly improvising ingenious figures with his right hand while punching out rumbling bass lines with his left, he managed to evoke boogie-woogie pianists like Meade Lux Lewis and beboppers like Bud Powell simultaneously. Horace Silver, 85, Master of Earthy Jazz, Is Dead 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

Several players can be improvising at the same time, but no one’s being blotted out. Steve Coleman Plays His Sax at the Stone 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Anybody who improvises on a house team goes through our training program and then auditions. Shannon O’Neill charts UCB’s power to make a performer Twitter-stalked 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

That litany might also include some of the works of Friedrich Gulda, a star pianist particularly famous for his Mozart interpretations, who improvised and composed with an ear to jazz influences. A Composer Shows the Way to Give Classical Music Swing 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

And there are hurtling, jagged moments when Mr. Serkin has the music sounding almost improvised. A Pianist’s Final Message: Overlooked Works by a Son of Bach 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z

"It was letting our cast take the lead. They were so good at being funny and improvising with each other, I wanted to let them find the tone themselves." Behind the scenes of "Fire Island," from filming sexy rain encounters to endearing dance-offs 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z

The ability to “make do” and creatively improvise with existing resources can also offer a template for a sustainable future. Setting the Stage for Africa at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z

Economically and artistically, the industry and its idled workers are in survival mode, improvising a response to an open-ended disaster. Digital Theater Isn’t Theater. It’s a Way to Mourn Its Absence. 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z

But his improvising is always temperate and proportionate. Tom Harrell at the Village Vanguard 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z

The title of his longtime quartet’s 2013 album, “Without a Net,” was a reference to his description of how the band improvised. Wayne Shorter, a Jazz Hero Whose Goal Was ‘to Fear Nothing’ 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z

The first night we improvised, reviewing menus door-to-door. Key West with kids — some explanations and exceptions required 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

At the end, Robin Williams heckled Belzer from the crowd, before going onstage and improvising a series of scenes to close out the night. Richard Belzer Had a Ball With the Relationship Between Comic and Crowd 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z

With encouragement from one of her managers, she took up rapping, and has released a pair of mixtapes that mold her off-the-cuff verve and improvised bon mots into something stickier. How Cardi B’s ‘Bodak Yellow’ Took Over the Summer 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z

Venom has a ravenous appetite, so in a scene set at a seafood restaurant, Hardy improvised that Brock would, under Venom’s control, leap into a lobster tank. Tom Hardy, Andy Serkis sink their teeth into ‘Venom’ sequel 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

That program, “Visualizing Music,” also included a piece for percussion and video art and an improvised performance that blended passages of medieval music with electronics, live computer-drawn visuals and tap dancing. Review: Mussorgsky’s ‘Pictures at an Exhibition,’ With Video Tableaus 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z

The films were largely improvised, and Gerwig was often credited as a co-writer, which could give the impression it was the same with Frances Ha. How female actors are rewriting Hollywood's script 2013-07-11T17:00:01Z

They were not improvising, but the mood was spontaneous. Review: A Group of Young Dancers, Conversing With their Feet 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

And he improvised a lot, both with flares of amplifier noise and with city-blues riffs and curls that he shared with Mr. Haynes — a style descending directly from T-Bone Walker and Albert King. Critic?s Notebook: Different Trips From Georgia to New York 2011-03-14T22:39:07Z

Hals is a formidably free, improvising painter, and a mystery. The genius of Frans Hals 2010-09-24T15:22:00Z

You step outside of yourself at certain points and think, I just spent 30 minutes improvising with Paul Reiser. Ennis Esmer of ‘Red Oaks’ Talks Tennis and Comedy 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

It was the spring of 1971 and the studio tape was rolling — but Withers hadn’t finished writing the lyrics, so he improvised to fill space and eat the clock. Perspective | Bill Withers, on repeat 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z

Today, washed out communities use improvised rope bridges to get supplies. Edwidge Danticat: Dawn After the Tempests 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z

"It's a different muscle," Livingston said of improvising. Improv-heavy 'Drinking Buddies' premieres at SXSW 2013-03-10T08:16:04Z

Mr. Sawyer, on drums, generated bustling rhythms, sometimes hinting at some abstract carnival, behind the other two players as an improvising tag team. Music Review: Knocking, Twitching, Buzzing, Rasping 2011-06-09T21:45:27Z

While a template of the plot is laid out by Winterbottom, most of the conversation is improvised by the pair. Steve Coogan: 'The Trip is Last of the Summer Wine for Guardian readers' 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

In the competition, each rapper gets one minute to improvise a song based on a phrase, word or character created by Cervantes, like Rocinante, Don Quixote’s horse. Rapping for Cervantes, for the Glory of It 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z

In her piano playing, the blues, the black church, classical music and free improvising coexist. Amina Claudine Myers, a Singer Who Still Needs No Words 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z

Parker’s flights, of course, were improvised; the reproductions, naturally, ran the risk of losing spontaneity. Theater Review: ?Shadows? at the Collapsable Hole - Review 2011-11-04T22:40:49Z

Some ingredients get special treatment on the grill, either in improvised saute setups or in fireboxes, used like little sweat lodges above the flames to steam-roast such things as baby carrots. Review | Cherry needs to bring more heat to the W Hotel 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z

And nearly half of them added on a coda, the drums rumbling and the piano simmering in a single chord, while Ms. Franklin improvised words and shouts, gospel-style. Music Review: Aretha Franklin at Radio City Music Hall, Friday, February 17 2012-02-18T07:56:13Z

Gillies, however, would look closely at such faces day after day, often over the course of multiple operations, improvising and inventing surgical techniques — or, as he put it, “fumbling towards new methods.” ‘The Facemaker,’ a Grisly but Inspiring Story of Surgery During World War I 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z

He wanted to keep improvising, to keep riffing — on the Old Masters, on his dreams, on the mysterious operations of shape and color. Review | Bob Thompson died young, but his colorful jazz- and Old Master-inspired paintings speak to the ages 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

But the deal is sealed a little later, when events lead them to a convenience store parking lot and she improvises a verse on the spot. Why we keep gazing at ‘A Star Is Born’: From Gaynor to Gaga 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z

She ended up spending two days watching the company’s actors improvise with a Tennessee Williams play, “Vieux Carré,” and left hoping to work with them someday. Despite Cancer, Maura Tierney Tries ?North Atlantic? 2010-04-20T21:43:00Z

What was also notable about "Irreversible" was that the actors were given the situations for each scene and encouraged to improvise. Revisiting Gaspar Noé's rape and revenge film backward in impactful "Irreversible: Straight Cut" 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z

He is uncommonly good at guiding and helping to sustain a group without taking up a lot of space, even in the most hot-blooded flurry of group improvising. Jazz Giants Dave Burrell and Archie Shepp Retrace Their Five-Decade History 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

At its core, these pieces are about improvising with the essence of sound — literally, the electrical impulses that produce them. Pull it together, take it apart: How Steve Roden makes a soundscape 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z

So we get to do a lot of takes and sometimes we get to improvise just to fool around at the end. ArtsBeat: Amy Poehler on the Return (Finally) of 'Parks and Recreation' 2011-01-20T18:55:28Z

Still, she remained part of Mr. Guest’s ensemble of oddballs, appearing in his improvised comedies “Best in Show,” “A Mighty Wind” and “For Your Consideration.” Parker Posey’s Offbeat Glamour 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

Episodes are essentially written while they’re being filmed, with stars improvising from story outlines. 'We're not Game of Thrones' – Curb Your Enthusiasm's stars on their unsexy TV sensation 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z

Coconato playfully improvised a character that he later realized was inspired by his own metamorphosis: a gay Southern choreographer named Bob. Meet Bob’s Dance Shop, ‘World-Class Vibe Curators’ 2023-05-16T04:00:00Z

He improvised the line — the cursing, and also the racial needling; the film was originally written with Darius as a white Irishman. The Samuel L. Jackson Method 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

It opens with a long piano solo, which Beethoven had originally improvised and which Denk made sound spontaneous, not reliving history but partaking of it. At the Ojai Music Festival, Classical style takes a turn 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z

“He’s one of the greatest improvising musicians of the past 100 years or so,” Metheny said before a show in Maine earlier this week. ‘To think it has come to this’: Kenny Burrell’s journey from jazz legend to GoFundMe appeal 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z

They began talking about the possibility of Mr. von Bothmer giving soccer the same treatment as the movies, watching the games with the audience while simultaneously improvising a soundtrack. A Waltz for a Soccer Game? This Composer Sets the World Cup to Music 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z

“The songs are so established and precious, but part of what Tom wanted was to improvise,” Whyte says. They Dreamed a Dream: Les Misérables Is a Whole New Kind of Movie Musical 2012-12-04T17:00:00Z

The series is most jolly when a bravura actor improvises to make dramatic sense of a wet-brained narrator’s stumble. Drunk History season two: it isn’t quite as funny when it isn’t quite as trashed 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

In fact, I wondered if all the scenes were improvised because of the often-stilted dialogue and the mundane situations that were being portrayed. Readers respond after 'Boyhood' fails to impress critic Kenneth Turan 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z

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

Despite its loose, apparently improvised feel, this new show was actually heavily scripted by Kudrow and King. Lisa Kudrow on The Comeback’s groundbreaking satire 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z

But, although it's a pleasure to watch two such gifted performers, the play resembles the kind of improvised memory exercises actors do in rehearsal. Third Finger, Left Hand – review 2013-04-05T11:00:21Z

We arrived slowly at the form of improvised story and the dynamic of interruption. Their Latest Risk: Household Objects Playing Shakespeare 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

Each work is the residue of Robertson's vigorous tussle with her materials, the pouring of chemicals and improvised manipulation of their flow. Mariah Robertson's vigorous tussle with photography 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

And it improvises on decades of work on the right to stitch the words “effete” and “liberal” together, painting a whole swath of the political spectrum as a feminine affectation. The Medical Mask Becomes a Protest Symbol 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

Others were picking through a jumble of costumes and props in an improvised photo studio. Malick Sidibé’s Mali: Scenes of a Rollicking Night Life 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

This piece does invite members of the orchestra to improvise, in certain passages. Orchestras Looking to Broaden Horizons? Start Improvising 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z

Nothing teaches you to improvise better than working in an unfamiliar kitchen. How to make holidays any time, any place 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

She is like a dreamier, melancholy, middle-class version of Mike Leigh, improvising her way to the heart of things. Joanna Hogg and Honor Swinton Byrne: ‘We should tell whatever stories we like’ 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

My colleague Ben Ratliff, whose review of the festival will appear next week, recently pegged it as "a cheaply priced cramming rite for New Yorkers interested in new improvised music." ArtsBeat: Taking In the Winter Jazzfest (Or Trying to Anyhow) 2013-01-11T20:55:02Z

Anything in theater, the actress Fiona Shaw said in an e-mail, “that has allowed the world of formal movement to be present with the improvised needs of the spoken text comes from her searing breakthrough.” Pina Bausch Series ‘World Cities’ in London 2012 Festival 2012-05-31T22:30:57Z

With only a short time left on their posting, our protagonists hear that three Danish comrades, stationed at another fort, have been killed by an improvised explosive device. In the firing line: A grunt's eye view of war 2011-04-04T20:31:01Z

But Coltrane had a funny problem: He was also quite commercially successful, particularly for an improvising musician of such rigor. Lost John Coltrane Recording From 1963 Will Be Released at Last 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

Rare works by Mr. Zorn here, that steadfast presence in what used to be called the downtown scene, and all hewing to the format of a notated piano part with improvised bass and percussion. Classical Music in NYC This Week 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

The program revealed the ensemble’s familiarity with folk idioms: Some of its core members perform with the Silk Road Ensemble and regularly play — and improvise — in a number of ethnic traditions. The Knights Play Stravinsky and Bartok in Central Park 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

Instead they busied themselves with brisk and accomplished improvising, often in an overlapping tandem. Music Review: Jazz With a Humorist Urge and a Whiff of Mystery 2010-10-25T22:19:00Z

It must have been that improvised authenticity that lured me across a quiet street in the Old Port a few years ago, when I first happened across the restaurant. Choice Tables: Portland, Me.: Locavore in Menu and Décor 2013-08-29T19:13:32Z

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

He devoted himself to his Standards trio and his spontaneously improvised solo piano concerts that brought him international renown through such albums as the multi-platinum “The Koln Concert.” Jazz Pianist Jarrett Goes Classical with Bach CD 2013-10-18T14:22:45Z

Grill may work on a given piece for years, adding paint and scraping it away again in an improvised journey toward a sort of monochrome interrupted by a rain of contrasting marks. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z

“Mass” charts a path from being lost to being healed — here, by way of Tines’s improvised, preacher-style account of what he described as a racially charged comment from an audience member the night before. In a Jam-Packed Weekend at Ojai, a Musical Family Gathers 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z

Like Liszt, he writes romantic piano solos with a sparkling right hand; like Keith Jarrett, he improvises funky gospel tunes, humming along with his own solos. London Jazz Festival: Tigran Hamasyan – review 2012-11-11T17:51:46Z

Mr. Kong also improvised some verses that drew laughter from Cambodians in the audience. Music Review: Kong Nay at the Season of Cambodia Festival 2013-04-21T21:51:37Z

Working with a tiny crew, wearing her own clothes, improvising as they went along, was, she says, her most satisfying working experience so far. Felicitations 2011-02-20T00:04:06Z

Jon Batiste, the musician and bandleader for “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” began the event by improvising on a melodica. ‘A Catharsis Sculpture’: An Artist Makes a Monument to Cancer Survivors 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

A dozen vocalists riff through Mr. Braxton’s pulsing “Ghost Trance Music” works, while improvising and layering other pieces atop the core material. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2019 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

These guys take on the aliens with a mix of improvised weapons, BMX bikes, mopeds and parkour moves, and it's reasonably good fun even if Cornish's action scenes are just above mediocre. "Attack the Block": Aliens in the hood, London-style 2011-07-29T19:30:00Z

His early writings on “creative music” — distinct from both classical and jazz traditions — proved influential to a wide swath of improvising artists in the 1970s, including the pianist and opera composer Anthony Davis. This Trumpeter’s Legacy Also Includes Composing String Quartets 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z

The works are developed in collaboration with the dancers; together, they discuss ideas, tell stories and ask questions, then translate this muddle of thoughts into improvised sequences based on a common hip-hop language. Companhia Urbana de Dança Reflects Brazil’s Complexities 2014-08-09T04:00:00Z

There are tunes about overdrawn bank accounts; about limitations in composing, in improvising and in learning French; about expensive lawyers; about volcanic ash disruptions to international flight patterns; and about death. Gerald Albright and Karen Mantler Release Albums 2014-08-04T04:00:00Z

With Crystal improvising some of his lines, however, the lessons become hilarious. In ‘Monsters at Work,’ the Scary Part Is the New Business Model 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

In this unscripted and largely improvised work, the parti-tortura was replaced by the torture of instruments, bringing to mind the trampled violin of Buñuel’s “Golden Age.” Music Review: Julio Estrada, at Miller Theater, in ICE Composer Portraits 2013-05-17T21:03:20Z

Villa-Lobos’s Prelude No. 3 and Étude No. 10 were similarly unbuttoned: Mr. Assad’s phrasing is highly personalized, with extreme rubato and articulation so varied as to sound almost improvised. Music Review: A Soulful, Virtuosic Player Holding the Spotlight Alone 2011-02-14T23:29:11Z

The trombone or sousaphone often provides the bass lines and riffs, while duelling trumpets and saxophone add the often complex melody lines and improvised solos. Red Baraat: Chaal Baby – review 2012-08-23T21:45:01Z

Then and now — he turned 75 this year — he has sounded entirely and almost guilelessly dedicated to his moment-to-moment improvising. Celebrating Charles Gayle at the Vision Festival 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

During decades of depression, inflation, multiculturalism, conservatism and AIDS, she and her colleagues led improvised lives on the city’s fringes. Museum and Gallery Listings for Feb. 21-27 2014-02-21T00:13:41Z

For most of “This American Wife” I was onboard but occasionally felt left out of the joke, especially in the improvised parts that could feasibly be sincere. ‘This American Wife’ Review: Wives Out, Knives Out 2021-05-23T04:00:00Z

Hunt, a methodical songwriter, marveled at how quickly and freely Breland improvised melodic lines. Sam Hunt Brought Hip-Hop to Country. After ‘Old Town Road,’ He’s Back. 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z

As he moves through SoHo, accompanying himself with an improvised monologue of parables, observations and associations, Mr. Mekas describes the rootlessness he still felt after four decades in New York. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

She was playing very improvised abstract stuff on guitar, and Winona was reading poetry. Gavin Friday: 'You can't be what you were' 2010-03-25T22:10:00Z

Then there are the songs that aren't prepared at all, or are at least substantially improvised around members of the audience, such as the lonesome "bank boy" or "Big Dennis" the office manager. Comedy gold: Rich Hall's Otis Lee Crenshaw and the Black Liars 2013-05-17T10:33:29Z

From the foundation of the wax paintings and the latex pieces, this exhibition follows Ms. Benglis as she improvises her way from one series to the next. Art Review: Artful Commentary, Oozing From the Walls 2011-02-17T21:27:55Z

Over two days in May 1871, 130,000 troops from the regular French army entered Paris to suppress an improvised city government calling itself La Commune. Spring uprising 2014-11-27T05:00:00Z

The drum part Bryan kept producing for “Lemonworld” was landing too hard, and so he improvised. The National Agenda 2010-04-23T13:00:00Z

She has developed a distinctive improvising style that incorporates glissandos, pert slides and sly references to historical jazz licks. Bellevue Jazz Festival kicks off with African beat 2011-06-02T20:17:04Z

On the other hand, on the same day I savored a dynamic, freely improvised solo piano scramble by Rob Schwimmer, in the main gallery. Critics Discuss ?Christian Marclay: Festival? 2010-07-23T22:31:00Z

The Bob Woodruff Foundation was started by the 60-year-old ABC journalist after he was seriously injured by an improvised explosive device while covering the war in Iraq in 2006. Veterans’ fundraiser draws Bruce Springsteen and Jon Stewart 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

Steps and attitudes separated by eras flow through her improvising body not as some premeditated fusion but as a single language she appears to have always known and yet is creating on the spot. From the Lindy Hop to Hip-Hop in One Improvising Body 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z

Also featuring a Jamaican dancehall legend, a festival of improvised music and a metal band that creates a literal wall of sound. Your week in Seattle music: Lucinda Williams, Dr. Dog and more 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z

But he remembers the improvised gym in a small garage off Central Avenue and how his coach taught him how to spar and occasionally sent him home with a limp. Watts made its mark on Frank Gehry, now the architect is returning the favor 2015-09-12T04:00:00Z

He was playing a tiny venue and I remember being blown away as he improvised an entire set around a man who arrived eating a baguette. Michael McIntyre: lowest-common-denominator entertainer or comedy saviour? 2010-09-17T10:21:00Z

At 7, he took up the clarinet, on which he improvised at length. A Composer Finds the Old in the New 2020-03-20T04:00:00Z

He would scrap songs and reform them in another style; call in the female band one day and just the guys the next; feign a prepared song and improvise something on the spot. In first solo album, Jack White taps a blue vein 2012-05-03T14:01:11Z

Jetting in from his Saturday Night Live job, Murray improvised Spackler’s attempts to kill the pesky rodent by shooting, drowning and rigging the course with explosives. The 10 best Bill Murray moments 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z

The best improvised music of the year understood that, and met us there. Best Jazz Albums of 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

“It’s completely improvised and it’s hilarious. The whole framework was there. It just needed to be appropriated into today.” It’s Time to Re-Re-Re-Meet the Muppets 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

Whether he knew it or not, Vonnegut was improvising a self-help manual for psychic pain at a time when many young Americans needed it most. From Dresden on the 50th Anniversary of ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

For his set, which was essentially one long, mostly improvised composition, Mr. Lopatin primarily played a synthesizer routed through a sea of effects pedals, holding fatty notes until they bent or became distended. Music Review: Floating and Bobbing in an Oceanic Swell of Sound 2010-08-30T21:58:00Z

According to Garry Marshall, the moment was entirely improvised, a prank intended for the gag reel. Is “Pretty Woman” on Broadway a Big Mistake? 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z

Standing naked, Stoppard improvised a solution that was used in the movie. Tom Stoppard: 'I'm the crank in the bus queue' 2010-04-14T20:30:00Z

Both Matassa and Johnson are genuine jazz singers — they improvise, they swing, they draw deeply from the blues — but they could not be more different. Review: Album releases by Greta Matassa and Kelley Johnson show two Seattle jazz singers at the top of their game 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z

Then again, the show did mint some stars: audience members who turned out to be terrific at improvising on the topics at hand. ‘Block Association’ Review: Yes, in Your Backyard 2021-04-25T04:00:00Z

Ashley likens the format to that of an old TV variety show: “Your hosts in costumes, improvising and sharing the moment and introducing dance, drag, spoken word, video art — a wide and lush gamut.” 8 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z

“So I went into the next closest thing,” he told The South Florida Sun-Sentinel in 2009, “where I could still improvise and stretch — Latin music — and I got really good at it.” Larry Harlow, Influential Figure in Salsa, Dies at 82 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z

I've done like Neil Simon comedies, but you say the words that were written and you don’t improvise. A Minute With: Jane Fonda on learning from the young comic set 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z

The improvised tabletop décor includes strings of white lights filling cut-glass vases and candles in Mason jars. Peyrassol: Out-of-the-way Renton cafe charms 2011-05-12T19:23:04Z

In the garage with Stan, Paige, who is only a novice spy, improvises a cover story, which falls apart. “The Americans” Finale Was Elegant, Potent, and Unforgettable 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

I improvised, rented a car and drove over the mountains to the Soca Valley. What It’s Really Like to Eat Your Way Around the Globe 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

Though it lags at times, this fascinating film creates narrative tension between the improvised street style and the more formal modern performance. Movie Listings for April 11-17 2014-04-10T22:40:37Z

They have also shared a stage, in one setting or another — but never before as an improvising trio, which should give this concert an extra push in the direction of discovery. Jazz Listings for May 22-28 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z

She added: “The only thing I can recall being allowed to improvise was the little singsong ‘I don’t know what to do’ chant in ‘Pierrot Le Fou.’ Anna Karina Recalls Her Life in Film With Jean-Luc Godard 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

We explored scenes, improvised scenes, and played off circumstances to build the character. In knockout thriller "Catch the Fair One," a boxer infiltrates a ring of human traffickers 2021-06-14T04:00:00Z

The evening-length work is built around what she calls scores — a series of live instructions to the dancers, all part of her method of creating improvised movement. Dance Review: At Danspace, Physicality Gets a New Dimension 2011-02-25T23:21:03Z

On Wednesday, with some trepidation, he prepared improvised ingredients. Scenes from the Folklife Festival 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

By the end of the session, only 34 of the 54 lots were sold, despite the drastic price revision improvised by the auctioneer to allow several of them to find takers. Auctions: No Starry-Eyed Buyers at Christie's and Sotheby's Art Sales 2011-01-27T12:30:03Z

We always improvise a lot, so we don’t always show them the questions in advance. Vanessa Bayer: This Is What Haim Should Do On Tour with Taylor Swift 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

People learned on the job, improvised and experimented with the new technologies, so the crew members who distinguished themselves were the ones who found creative solutions to the problems that arose on set. James Wong Howe: A Gutsy Cinematographer Finally Gets His Due 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z

Bee describes the improvising nature of the work as "fishing all day," while keeping broad themes in mind. Conventions a parody playground for 'Daily Show' 2012-08-27T18:43:03Z

Some improvised shoving by the actors caused passersby to exchange looks, but no one intervened. A Real-Life GIF in Central Park 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

We improvised a dining room table, adding plywood sheets on sawhorses to create a long table that ran through the spine of our San Francisco home suitable for seating at least forty people. A Thanksgiving Snapshot: Readers Share Their Holiday Stories 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z

I had seen “My Summer of Love” and loved it, but I had no idea it was improvised. He slept with a lesbian: Summer’s hottest rom-com 2012-06-13T00:05:00Z

“She was tremendous. She can improvise like no one’s business.” Jessica Chastain, Jodie Comer and J. Harrison Ghee Partied for the Tonys 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z

Animated characters have physical abilities humans can't replicate, and in the original Spike fights with a fluidity that merges Bruce Lee style with the flow of improvised jazz. "Cowboy Bebop" is an off-key adaptation that captures the jazzy color but not soul of the original 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z

"One of his ideas was to get three musicians, from different walks of life, on a stage together for a spontaneous, improvised concert with his commentary," Stubbs says. At 'Structured Impulse,' expect the unpredictable 2012-02-02T21:16:07Z

“You encourage them to improvise. You tell them: ‘Always save your energy at the beginning of the day because I want the maximum energy at the end of the day’. Ruben Östlund: ‘All my films are about people trying to avoid losing face’ 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z

The brothers recently revealed to Entertainment Weekly an improvised bit between Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson was cut from the end of the movie for the sake of keeping the film tight. "Avengers: Endgame" deleted scene: Here’s the Thor-Valkyrie moment that got axed 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z

How their profusion of improvised movements can dovetail into a cohesive dance piece will be fascinating to watch. Lingo dance company's 'Glimmer' takes journey from street to stage 2010-04-14T21:46:00Z

Priester talks about how he wants people to recognize and respect the miracle of improvised jazz music, which he wants to rename “spontaneous composition,” a phrase he believes better captures the skill involved in soloing. 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

It is possible, if not provable, that by showing up on the same stage repeatedly, improvising artists grow deeper and more complex, or at least remember their own standards of excellence. Why Would You Go to a Phish Concert, Let Alone 13? I Found Out 2017-08-07T04:00:00Z

Back in the world of mortals, he is asked at a singing contest to improvise a song on the nature of love. Wagner's Tannh?user 2010-12-11T00:06:00Z

Guillén began to deepen and complicate his character even in the pilot, improvising a moment in which he reveals Guillermo’s ambivalence by letting sunlight play over his master’s coffin. Does Harvey Guillén, of ‘What We Do in the Shadows,’ Look Familiar? 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z

Then one day he was noodling around with some recording equipment on his piano and asked Davis to improvise something to sing along with it. A husband and wife’s ‘family music nights’ in their basement become an album 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

Known for improvising on stage, Mr. Bird switches between a variety of stringed instruments while he sings, whistles like a bird, and uses multitrack recorders, loop pedals and even a glockenspiel. Music Match: If You Like Roy Orbison . . . 2012-09-25T22:27:52Z

In Homework's case, it started out as an improvised night organised by writing collective Aisle 16, designed to encourage its members to produce new work and share it with others. What a performance 2010-07-30T23:05:00Z

Dhont, who employs loose scripts and encourages his actors to improvise dialogue, said his method resembled that “of a choreographer, introducing movements.” Once a Bullied Teen, Now the Movies’ Master Storyteller of Youth 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z

Some is highly structured and ordered, some is completely improvised or accidental, and some seems purely distilled from the world around it. Perspective | You call it a root canal. I call it a bittersweet symphony. 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

In New York’s Museum of Modern Art is a curious contraption with several wheels, metal containers, axles and pipes and what may be a tattered flag hanging from an improvised flagpole. 5 presidential candidates and the art that shows how we feel about them 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Where he spent the first debate huffing and interrupting, this time he worked in sarcastic mode and improvised, jabbing Mrs. Clinton for comparing her view of political strategy to Abraham Lincoln’s: “Honest Abe never lied.” Was That a Debate? Or Were the Candidates Just Trying to Go Viral? 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

So it's a natural progression for Mark Chavez and Shenoah Allen to bring an improvised show to Edinburgh. The Pajama Men – Edinburgh review 2012-08-08T17:01:22Z

Hummus, grated carrot and sprouts is another favourite, but feel free to improvise. Summer vegetarian recipes 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

He improvised with musicians in his studio, then culled snippets that might engender songs; he toyed with loops and effects; he let samples lead him to ideas. The Blessed, Cursed Life of Bon Iver 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

It’s improvised and quite punk, but it’s also quite devotional. Riz Ahmed Finds the Beat Between Qawwali and House Music 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

He deals with a few ballads from the old school — “Until the Real Thing Comes Along” and “Where or When,” which comes out in two and a half minutes of luxe melodic improvising. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-01-17T22:03:49Z

He was amazed when he saw the castle, certainly, but immediately rushed in to inspect the detail, and improvise ideas within its walls, including the gruesome murder of Guy of Gisborne. Douglas Fairbanks: extraordinary life of Hollywood founding father 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

You often have the queasy feeling that the screenplay was improvised on the spot. ‘Horrible Bosses 2,’ With Jason Bateman and Jason Sudeikis 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z

With the help of an improvised green screen and digital editing tools, Wakaliwood actors can take aim at the Eiffel Tower or drop from the sky into the middle of New York's Times Square. In Uganda, a filmmaker makes gripping $200 action flicks 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

His improvising was free, gestural, with meaningful gaps around his phrases. Review: Wayne Shorter Goes Solo With the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

According to Platts-Mills — who at 25 wasn’t much older than his actors — the movie was largely improvised because the cast hadn’t bothered to read the script. ‘Bronco Bullfrog’: Hello Young Lovers 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z

Politics used to be like that too, but nowadays we have more and more improvised politicians with no experience. Paolo Sorrentino: ‘My characters’ struggles are the struggles I have’ 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z

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

Singing, playing guitar or keyboards, and chattering improvised phrases, he repeatedly flashed and buried his charisma. Critic’s Notebook: Essence Music Festival With Mary J. Blige, in New Orleans 2012-07-09T22:42:42Z

As they head into their Cherry Lane run, they were continuing to refine the script, working in moments where they could interact with audience members or find places to improvise. In ‘Oh, Hello,’ Nick Kroll and John Mulaney Have a Stage Senior Moment 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z

The Vision Festival, New York’s annual gathering of the improvising avant-garde, is a locus for some of the country’s most unbounded musicians. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

The trio demonstrates sublime improvising musicianship and flawlessly creative listening at once. Paul Motian/Chris Potter/Jason Moran: Lost in a Dream | CD review 2010-03-18T22:10:00Z

Still in her early 40s, Lee has already had a potent influence on her fellow improvising cellists, particularly in New York. 13 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

The record isn’t making any kind of argument on behalf of free improvising. New Music: JOE LOVANO US FIVE 2013-01-08T00:19:05Z

Private Vaccaro improvised as he moved through Europe, finding his film and his processing chemicals among the ruins of camera shops in towns his unit passed through. Tony Vaccaro, 100, Dies; Photographed War From a Soldier’s Perspective 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z

Sometimes he had to improvise: He was unable to get his hands on the brass artillery shell casings that Mr. Partch used in the original Spoils of War instrument. Reviving a Harry Partch Work With Hubcaps and Wine Bottles 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z

It was 1968, he was 15 years old, and getting into a lot of freely improvised and world music. Pierre Bastien: the man who makes Meccano sing 2010-10-18T22:13:00Z