[dcab-l] Improvisation, Classical Style

A very thoughtful article from the Sunday Wash Post. It seems like Ms Hahn knows bluegrass!!

Improvisation is supposed to be spontaneous. So it's fitting that when Hilary Hahn did it for the first time, it was pretty much by accident.
Hahn, 32, is a leading classical concert violinist, a breed for whom improvisation is generally uncharted territory. If you've spent years focused on a written score, honing your technique to play it perfectly, it can be terrifying to break out into the unknown.
"I was kind of intimidated by improvisation," says Hahn, "because I thought it had to be on the level of great jazz improvisers or bluegrass musicians."

Read Article: http://tinyurl.com/ca36lj7

Which forward thinking BG band will ask her to join them on a recording project?? ;-]

Mike Marceau
http://vfp-vn.ning.com/

















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