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DJ Sessions: Improvising In Harlem

Violinist Jesse Montgomery (Jiyang Chen/jessiemontgomery.com/)
Violinist Jesse Montgomery (Jiyang Chen/jessiemontgomery.com/)

When you think of musical improvisation, classical music probably does not come to mind. But WQXR classical music DJ Terrance McKnight tells Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson that there’s a lot of it going on right now, particularly in the classical music coming out of Harlem.

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