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“The most impressive part of the music we play is the art of improvisation”

Those of us trained in the traditional, improvisation-phobic classical musical culture often don’t realize that improvisation played a key role in the way people made music, even much of what we now think of as classical music, through the nineteenth century.  While most (but not all) of my own improvising is in non-performance situations, in [...]