Music composition and improvisation represent two intertwined yet distinct expressions of creative musical practice. Whereas composition often involves the deliberate crafting of musical structures ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. While many improv shows aim to produce a spontaneous play or mimic stage or screen ...

The Annoyance's very own musical ensembles. Every Tuesday at 8pm, two groups improvise brand new musicals based on audience suggestions. Featuring Musical Director Lisa McQueen and starring the ...

Robotic orchestra conductor 'Yumi' performs on stage with the Orchestra Filarmonica di Lucca in Italy in 2017. Laura Lezza/Getty Images In his autobiography, Miles Davis complained that classical ...

For Roy Maimon, hitting the bar stage and working in the scientific laboratory have never been separate worlds. During his Ph ...

This article presents a three-pronged strategy for teaching collective improvisation in the general music classroom through structured surround soundscapes. This strategy consists of developing ...

An international research team investigated the brains of 16 jazz pianists while they played a piece from memory, improvised based on the melody, and freely improvised based on the chord changes. The ...

dfischli@uoguelph.ca has received funding from SSHRC. He is affiliated with Silence, a community artspace and not-for-profit. Laura Risk receives or has received funding from SSHRC, FRQSC and the ...

Flash Mob Musical is an explosive, energetic cluster of excitement, song and dance. The longest running musical montage group in SF, FMM will make you laugh and cry and come back screaming for more.