IN REAL TIME-400 Years of Structured Improvisation- Feb 3, 2012

Pacific MusicWorks presents:
In Real Time
400 Years of Structured Improvisation
Feb 3, 2012, 8:00pm, Daniels Recital Hall, 811 5th Avenue

Music starts from an impulse of the soul. When a musician shares that impulse with an audience as it happens, we call it improvisation. Join world-reknowned guitarist Bill Frisell, virtuoso violinist Mikhail Shmidt, and PMW music director and lutenist Stephen Stubbs as they pool their talents in exploring the art which underlies much of the greatest music of the modern era, from the dazzling art of the Baroque to the 20th century's invention of instrumental jazz.

Part concert, part dialogue, part happening, Real Time also features Tom Allen, musician, musicologist, and host of the Canadian Broadcasting Company show Shift--"from Bach to Bachmann, Haydn to The Hip"--and listener-rated "the best morning radio evar."

Underlying the art of group improvisation in Western music is the idea of a "ground": a repeated series of tones that defines a harmonic framework. Traditional American blues is based on a ground; this concert will demonstrate how the deceptively simple tune called "la Folia" served virtuosi of the Baroque era as inspiration. The audience will be encouraged by moderator Allen to ask questions and discuss the experience in "real time.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Stephen Stubbs
• Bill Frisell
• Misha Shmidt
• Tom Allen Daniels Recital Hall

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