Greg Sandow closes Episode 9 “Improvised Delights” (the most recent one as I write) of his online book-in-progress, The Future of Classical Music, with the following:
So am I urging us to return to some 18th century (or early 19th century) paradise? Hardly. There were many problems then. Performances, by our standards, were very likely bad. [...]
Now the new school year has started, and I’m using improvisation in my teaching. I’m teaching cello, of course, and also one section of the DePauw School of Music’s first-year seminar for music majors. It’s an unusual class, in that the students rotate among five faculty members over the course of the semester. [...]
If anyone is still checking this blog, since it’s been so inactive, I’m back and I anticipate I’ll be writing more frequently. It has been very helpful to take some (unplanned) time from writing about improvisation. It’s given me time to think about the book itself, and how it wants to be structured. While in [...]
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