Post #3919120
2026-07-18 20:00 UTC
"I was telling someone that as much as it's improvisation, it's also spontaneous composition. If I improvise something, you call it improvising. If I take that same improvisation and write it down, it's called a composition. What's the difference? It's the exact same thing."
Don't miss Lawrence Peryer's interview with Steven Bernstein on The Tonearm:
https://www.thetonearm.com/steven-bernstein-no-permission-required-sexmob-trumpet/
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@teledyn@mstdn.ca 2026-07-18 20:08
@thetonearm@social.lol Mozart and Beethoven both would play some extended cadenza in performance, like a Keith Jarrett, then later write out the good parts to sell to their publisher so centuries later folk could worship every printed note as divine, whereas any true 'divinty' was in that prior moment of improvisation.