About this show:
Something of a lost art, improvisation in classical music is making a comeback in a big way thanks to composers like Steven Snowden, Don Malone, and Aaron Johnson. Teaming up with fantastic performers, they prove that improvisation very much has a place in the modern concert hall.
Playlist:
Bach/arranged by Gabriela Montero
Toccata in D Minor?
Gabriela Montero, piano
“Bach and Beyond”
Walter Thompson
Song of Cerberus ?
Jeffrey Agrell, french horn; John Manning, tuba; Laura Weaver, trombone; David Hulm, poet
Jeffrey Agrell and Evan Mazunik
Repercussions
Jeffrey Agrell, horn; Evan Mazunik, piano
Medieval English song
Sumer is Icumen In?
Aaron Krister Johnson
Diabolical Suite, I & II?
Johnson, piano
Don Malone
Prelude & Toccata (excerpt)?
David Schrader, piano ?(live performance)
Steven Snowden
Ground Round?
Steve Parker, trombone
Noam Sivan
Improvised introduction to Chopin’s Piano Sonata No. 3?
Sivan, p.
David Darling
Chorale ?Darling, vc.
Gunnelpumpers
Symphonie Improvisé
