We encouraged him to improvise.

The MC would improvise lyrics in the same way that the jazz players would improvise melodies.

So now I have to improvise again.

If you do not produce a miracle for them, they say, Why don t you improvise one.

When you do not bring them a sign, they say, Why do you not improvise one?

And then, as if by magic, they will spontaneously improvise a load of harmony around that tune because they can.

Where you ... It's like jazz you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something.

You always have to sort of adapt and improvise to the opportunities and accidents that happen, and the sort of turmoil of the world.

Moreover, following this concerto it was very rare for a composer to leave a cadenza unwritten, for the soloist to improvise, as in the days of Mozart and Beethoven.

I am very sorry we have to improvise like this, but I would ask you to sympathize in view of the situation in which the Commission finds itself at the moment.

The opening two themes are then combined in the development section, where the music builds up to the innovative cadenza, which Mendelssohn wrote out in full rather than allowing the soloist to improvise.

Normally when you improvise and I do it all the time around the world there's this initial period of horror, like everyone's too frightened to throw the hat into the ring, an awful pregnant silence.

And he'll improvise entire concerts off the top of his head, and he'll never play it exactly the same way again, and so, as a form of intense creativity, I think this is a great example.

What I do first is, I make a lot of little musical ideas you can just improvise here at the piano and I choose one of those to become my main theme, my main melody, like the Abegg that you just heard.

I have here seven note cards, one with each note of the musical alphabet, and I'd like someone to come up here and choose five anyone to come up here and choose five and then I can make it into some sort of melody and I'll improvise it.

And so what we did was we brought professional jazz players to the NIH, and we had them memorize this piece of music on the left, the lower left which is what you heard me playing and then we had them improvise to the same exact chord changes.

I had to practice it as a kid, and I'm really sick of it. So I would, so what I might like to try to do is to change it, to transform it in some ways, to personalize it, so I might take the opening, like this idea and then I might substitute and then I might improvise on that melody that goes forward from there So that might be the kind of thing Why thank you.