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Hosted by PETER SALTZMAN · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 48 episodes
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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 improvises on the piano, then talks about what the music tells him. Then makes music about what the talking tells him. Then...well, it goes on like this. Droll, funny, dramatic, musical, short. petersaltzman.substack.com
PETER SALTZMAN hosts Improvisations on The Ledge, a education show with 48 episodes published.
But you can still listen to it in the car if you either lack the time or inclination to watch. Improvisations on the Ledge (IOTL) – Back on the Ledge (Pilot Episode) Improvisations on the Ledge is back—this time live. IO
Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/story/ckw6kzm991rm90878rsjk4zli?m=comment The moment a theme is stated, it wants to do something. What? Like all lifeforms, it wants to replicate, mutate,
Leave a comment and share your thoughts: https://open.firstory.me/story/ckvk002b34j0c0938go4chdbo?m=comment Musical themes seem to emerge from the sonic abyss almost by their own volition. But where do they come from? Ar
"The Many Layers of Musical Memory—and Forgetting" is an episode about how listening to music, and performing it, are really acts of thematic memory—and forgetting. And sometimes the forgetting is part of the creative pr
After an extended layoff, I've decided to get back to Improvisations On the Ledge by sticking to the theme—literally. The entire season—including this episode—is devoted to musical theme: how we create, perceive it, and
Using jazz educator David Bloom's metaphor, musicians need to look in the rearview mirror and remember the theme if they wish to move forward. But when you look back, you are not just remembering what you played at the b
My intent was to dive into Part 2 of my “End of Melody Episode,“ but by planned chance, I rolled the dice and came up with something completely different. Unplanned, but fated to be this way? Possibly. Powered by Firstor
Melody. As a creative musician, you're either born with it or not. Or maybe everybody is born with it but some choose to suppress it. Why would anybody do that? Powered by Firstory Hosting Get full access to Musically No
Math, science, and logic can explain a lot but not everything about how music works. The strange thing, though, is that great music almost always has a perfect logic to it. How is that possible? Powered by Firstory Hosti
In this episode, I do battle with Philip Glass and, by extension, the entire genre of minimalism. To my surprise, though, I found that even while I reject the aesthetic as a whole, there’s plenty I can take from it creat
After I finished recording this episode, I remembered that I had already done one early laster season on the same subject. Thus the "again". I didn't go back and listen to that because I gotta believe this one's complete
I was watching Jerry Seinfeld's new standup release on Netflix the other night and it put me in the mind of nothing. Specifically, how we build music out of essentially meaningless sound events that end up adding up to..
Season Two is finally here but it’s not at all was I was planning. Befitting the title of the podcast, Improvisations on the Ledge, in fact, resists any serious planning. And yet, for this premiere episode of season two,
It's been a LONG wait, but season two is just about ready to launch. With an exciting new format and several new features, it will be well worth the wait! Powered by Firstory Hosting Get full access to Musically Novel at
What if I came up with a theme in the morning, then improvised variations throughout the day? What would that add up to? Call it a variation on the theme and variations idea, but in the form of a diary of a single day in
Do you ever think about what you’re thinking about? Of course, you do, and I often think about what I’m thinking about when improvising. But when I pose this question to the great French pianist-composer Jean-Michel Pilc
For years I’ve had this thought that I should be able to improvise a full 4-movement piano sonata. Is this just another example of me being completely out of touch with my times? Well yes. But that doesn’t mean it won’t
In the interests of busting yet another musical myth, I improvise a nocturne in the afternoon. At least it’s relatively dark in its sweetness. Powered by Firstory Hosting Get full access to Musically Novel at petersaltzm
...Or how musical order insists on materializing out of seemingly random occurrences... Powered by Firstory Hosting Get full access to Musically Novel at petersaltzman.substack.com/subscribe
Yes, that’s right, improvisations with sports-style play-by-play analysis—including instant replay! Powered by Firstory Hosting Get full access to Musically Novel at petersaltzman.substack.com/subscribe
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Improvisations on The Ledge is hosted by PETER SALTZMAN. The show is categorised under education (arts) and has published 48 episodes.
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