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ROUNDTABLE: Improvisation and Outreach: The Ethics of Improvising with At-Risk or Aggrieved Communities

Neil Guilding, J.P. Melville, Brad Muirhead, Richard Newirth, Lorna Shwartzentruber, Julie Smith, Chris Vaughn, Denise Watson

Published: 2009-09-11

VIDEO: Roundtable participants discuss outreach programs that make use of improvisation and are targeted towards at-risk communities. TEXT: Biographies of the roundtable participants.

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Improvisation is, simply put, being and living this very moment. No one can hide in music, and improvising in music is to be truly in this very moment and being completely yourself, with all your qualities and faults. It is probably the most honest state for a human being to be in.

– John McLaughlin in an interview with Daniel Fischlin.