Category: Renaissance Improvisation
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Social Sunday: Indiegogo improvisation app campaign
I just did something new: I backed a crowdsourcing campaign. Hosted by Indiegogo, this campaign is to help develop an app that will help Renaissance and early Baroque musicians practice their ornamentation and improvisation. It’s called Passaggi. I elected to fund at a premium level, so that I get some sort of rewards, but you…
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Re-thinking jazz and classical music
I recently read an op-ed in the Washington Post, “All that jazz isn’t all that great” by Justin Moyer, and it brought to my mind a lot of old conversations and thoughts that I have had about the place of jazz (and classical music) in our culture. Moyer’s piece is a critique against jazz in general. I…