Improvisation

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.

Gunnelpumpe