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May 2024 Newsletter

Watch and listen to our May 2024 video newsletter - Improvisation in the classical world and beyond

 

Classical Music Daily publishes a newsletter, usually on the first day of each month. Here is our May 2024 newsletter, No 181, Improvisation in the classical world and beyond, which takes the form of an online discussion, led by John Dante Prevedini, which took place and was recorded on 19 April 2024. The running time is just over an hour.

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The questions asked during the session were as follows:

  • When should music be improvised and when should it be written down?
  • Which genres of music fit best with improvisatory techniques?
  • How does improvisation change with the number of simultaneous performers?
  • Can you provide good examples of musical improvisation?

You're welcome to add your thoughts to the discussion, via our contact page. If you indicate that your message is for publication, we'll add it to this page.

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These links below aim to complement the contents of the newsletter. You can use them to discover more about those taking part and some of the subjects, organisations and individuals mentioned.

ANGELES CHORALE

AUSTIN BAROQUE ORCHESTRA

AUSTRIA (CMD)

CAMERATA SALZBURG

CHRISTOPH WILLIBALD GLUCK (CMD)

CLARA RODRÍGUEZ

CLARA RODRÍGUEZ CHARITY CONCERT ON 31 MAY 2024 (CONCERT DIARY)

CORONAVIRUS DISEASE 2019 (CMD)

CUBA (CMD)

DAVID ARDITTI (CMD)

ELLIOTT SHARP: DIE GRÖSSTE FUGE (CMD)

FRANCE (CMD)

FRANÇOIS-XAVIER ROTH

FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN (CMD)

GERMANY (CMD)

GHILLIE'S - IRISH AND FOLK MUSIC

HAL LEONARD

HALIDA DINOVA (CMD)

HANNAH HUTTON SEPTET - SOUNDS OF SONDHEIM ON 12 MAY 2024 (RLPO)

IMPROVISATION (CMD)

IRELAND (CMD)

JAMES LEWITZKE

JAMES LEWITZKE (YOUTUBE)

JAMES LEWITZKE: IMPROMPTU (YOUTUBE)

JAMES LEWITZKE: SYMPHONY NO 1 IN D MINOR (YOUTUBE)

JAMES ROSS

JANICE WATSON (CMD)

JAPAN (CMD)

JASMIN ARAKAWA

JOHN DANTE PREVEDINI (CMD)

JOSÉ ANTONIO MÉNDEZ PADRÓN (LINN RECORDS)

KEITH BRAMICH (CMD)

LES SIÈCLES

LIYA MAKLYGINA (YOUTUBE)

LONDON COMPOSERS FORUM

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (CMD)

MAU FUJITA

MEDICI.TV

OCALA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

PHILADELPHIA JAZZ ORCHESTRA

PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA

RAYMOND CHOBAZ (CMD)

ROGER NORRINGTON (CMD)

ROY CASTLE LUNG CANCER CHARITY CONCERT ON 31 MAY 2024 (FACEBOOK)

ROY CASTLE LUNG CANCER FOUNDATION

RUSSIA (CMD)

SARAH WILLIS

STEPHEN FRANCIS VASTA (CMD)

STEPHEN SONDHEIM (CMD)

SWITZERLAND (CMD)

THEATRE OF PIANO IMPROVISATION (YOUTUBE)

UCLA CHORALE

UCLA PHILHARMONIA

ULYSSES ARTS

UNITED KINGDOM (CMD)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (CMD)

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES

VERBIER FESTIVAL

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (CMD)

YANNICK NÉZET-SÉGUIN (CMD)

 

Posted 1 May 2024 by John Dante Prevedini

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7 May 2024

I came across your recent panel discussion on improvisation in the classical music field. If you're interested in exploring that rather esoteric area I am probably one of the foremost practitioners of creating in real time. My catalogue has over 70 albums and about 15 of them are created in real time. About eight of them are collaborative composition which is even more unusual. All the compositions were created by myself and various collaborators in real time and in concert or filmed. I believe this is very rare these days. An overview of my 'instant composition' work can be found here.

Some excerpts from the recent Berlin January 20 concert are here.

For The Hostages & Victims of October 7

Andrea picks three notes

Dance Fantastich

Two other creations, both rather unusual, that were filmed as they were happening, and appear on the same album, Musical Portraits: An International Collection are:

Early Reflections of Ping: A Musical Portrait

The Sound of Fragrance

If the links below are of interest I can send you more, or you can check out my catalogue on any streaming service and the many real time creations of my YouTube channel.

William Goldstein

 

2 May 2024

Under every leaf of a plant are little tiny holes called stomata which close up at night and open in the daylight to let the air circulate in and out of the plant - that's how the plants breathe. They have discovered the chirping sound that birds make at four in the morning opens the stomata. One guy got curious about this, found out that the chirping of the birds can be mimicked with classical music, started playing classical music to his corn field and his corn grew fifteen feet tall.

Carlos i Lizarraga

 

19 April 2024

Thanks again for having me on, it was definitely an interesting discussion (even if I was majority listening for 98% of it).

James Lewitzke

 

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The background image on this page has been derived from an AI-generated image of animals improvising on various different musical instruments.

 

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