Improvisations on The Ledge

Improvisations on The Ledge

By PETER SALTZMANEducationArtsPerforming Arts
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Improvisations on The Ledge episodes

  • "#19—Free Will, Free Improvisation: Are they Real?"

    Are free will and free improvisation really free, or am I deluding myself? And is deluding myself a necessary condition for free will/improvisations​?

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    33 min
  • "#18: Nocturne out of Context"

    In an era when musical context has been subsu​med in a sea of listener playlists, on-demand streaming and the general obsolescence of the album, who creates the larger context for a single piece of music? You do! Until I do.

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    17 min
  • #17: The Bottle Episode

    The episode in which anything can happen but mostly doesn't...

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    20 min
  • #16: Patriotica from the Left

    Left-leaning improvisations on patriotic tunes for (what’s left of) Independence Day.

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    15 min
  • #15: Avant-Garde for Wimps (Like Me)

    I'll never dive fully into the avant-garde, but dipping my feet in that pool can be quite exhilarating!

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    15 min
  • #14: Sad Movie Theme Gone Bad

    Why am I a lousy film composer? Could it be because I'm a composer?

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    20 min
  • Episode #12: The Emperor Has New Clothes

    A bluesy improvisation on the theme from the slow movement of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto inevitably leads me down the path of the inevitability​ of noninevitability.

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    17 min
  • Episode #11: Art ± Technology = Art

    My recording equipment was flipping out (or maybe It was me). Which may seem like a hindrance to artistic expression​, but then I realized that the flipping out was part​ of the flipping art!

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    10 min
  • Episode #10: This is A Blues?

    What is a blues? A genre? Musical form? A scale? It's all of those things and more​​ because the blues is a fundamental musical structure with infinite possibilities for making musical statements. Which I find out here...

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    13 min

About Improvisations on The Ledge

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In "Improvisations on the Ledge," award-winning composer-pianist Peter Saltzman searches for universal truths by stumbling upon them—both with words and music. The basic premise is simple: he…