I heard a
great report by
Sara Fishko on WNYC yesterday about the great Polish composer
Frederic Chopin. The pianist
Garrick Ohlsson describes how Chopin was an inveterate improviser, who spent weeks working on how to make his pieces sound as though they were made up on the spot. Ohlsson "opens the hood" of the pieces in the interview, which is really fascinating. Coming at this from my comparitively poor classical background, the spontaneity and openness of Chopin reminds me of
Thelonious Monk's compositions and playing, in an odd way.
Cross-posted to
A Jeremiad.
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