Sentence examples for what improvisation from inspiring English sources

"He really enjoyed what improvisation we did do," Mr. Daniels said.

Mr. Zorn's greatest game piece, originally conceived in the 1970's and organized with index cards and hand signals, depends entirely on who's playing it, and those musicians' senses of humor, physical reflexes and notions about what improvisation is.

There are a lot of different opinions of what improvisation means - a lot of people think it means you just say anything you want to, whereas usually it's based on a storyline: you know what the thrust of the scene is, then it's rehearsed and turned into something.

Nagging is to S&M what improvisation is to what Stanislavski called Building A Character.

What is improvisation?

"Instead of teaching 'freedom,' or creativity, Tristano taught me a set of practices that create the feeling of what an improvisation ought to sound like," Becker says.

If you don't have the theme once in a while, you forget what the improvisation is supposed to be about," Mr. Remnick said.

But what happens when improvisation stops looking difficult, when the improviser's virtuosity begins to feel less like the high-wire act of free jazz and more like a deft fiddler's merely showy arpeggios?

At the same time, an Indian dancer appeared and did what looked like improvisation.

He records all his live shows — almost 100 in the last year — occasionally repurposing what began as improvisation into polished beats.

That determination saw him through the 1950s, as he struggled with then-new ideas about improvisation — what would come to be called free jazz — and encountered cold shoulders from unsympathetic peers.