Word: improvisationism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From there it was a matter of improvisation--persuading someone to drive them toward Kobe, then stopping at the suburb of Nishinomiya, where damage was appalling. In Kobe, Kunii had to cover neighborhoods on foot, masking her mouth from smoke and fumes that burned the throat. One night she took...
Old and slightly stooped, in fact, but strong enough to give 30 talks during a 33,000-km tour that touched the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Australia and Sri Lanka. The Pontiff has still not fully recovered from last April's surgery for a broken leg: he walks with a...
Perhaps the most virtuosic American musician alive, Taylor has achieved recognition within the musical world for his immense technical skill combined with an aggressive, passionate approach to improvisation.
The dialectic is disorienting. On the one hand, the present time seems dramatically immoral, one of the sleazier, stupider, more violent periods of American history. On the other hand -- or perhaps merely as a result -- Americans have become the world's most relentless moralizers, engaged in moral improvisation and soul...
"There's not really a consistent stage for students to hear other students," he said. "This creates a forum for improvisation and creation of new music."