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In this hour-long session we look at connections in improvisation between early music and jazz. Lucas Harris, a specialist in Baroque and renaissance lutes and guitars, shows us how vital improvisation and variation was to the realization of musical scores from the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. Paul Grabowsky, master pianist, composer and arranger, brings the perspective of a modern jazz musician, and together they tease out fascinating connections across centuries of music, and the place that improvising still holds for the contemporary player and composer. This workshop will be facilitated by David Fallis, known especially for his expertise in Baroque and Classical periods, and contemporary music.