RE: Music
06-26-2013, 06:27 PM
Welcome back CSJ! All of those bossa/jazz tracks are really good
BRP, you seem to know a good amount about this stuff - are there any famous classical musicians today who do improv?
related: I just listened to Pictures At An Exhibition all the way through for the first time and holy crap it is excellent
(06-26-2013, 08:10 AM)BRPXQZME Wrote: »A lot of people find this guy’s playing very strange, but this is mostly attributed to that he was one of the few Romantic-style players who was recorded extensively, and a good number of people who study these things believe that the things people find weirdest (missed notes when playing from memory, playing the left hand part like a grace note) were all fairly normal in the performances of that period.Huh, this is interesting. I knew that improv used to be common in classical music but I didn't know a lot of the things in that article.
BRP, you seem to know a good amount about this stuff - are there any famous classical musicians today who do improv?
related: I just listened to Pictures At An Exhibition all the way through for the first time and holy crap it is excellent