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'Sing It and Wing It,' features Gabriela Montero, a celebrated classical pianist, who is a natural improviser. Every now and then we get a music lover on the telephone to sing a tune to Montero and see if she can improvise around it, on the spot.
Pianist Gabriela Montero is a natural-born improviser. On this edition of Sing It and Wing It Montero improvises around the Melissa Etheridge song "Bring me Some Water," sung by Carrie Hamblen, calling from Las Cruces, N.M.
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Sing a tune and Montero will come up with an instantaneous four minutes of new music. This time on Sing It and Wing It, Montero improvises around a Balkan folk tune, sung to her by a listener in Brooklyn.
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Pianist Gabriela Montero fields songs sung over the telephone and creates her own improvisations around them. This week, hard work on a sailing team inspired a listener to sing the song "The Weight" by The Band.
()A Performance Today listener calls in with a song to sing, and pianist Gabriela Montero creates her own improvisation around it, right on the spot. This time, memories of jazz singer Betty Carter inspire the caller to sing "So Many Stars."
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Montero has had a terrific year as a classical pianist: making her debut with the New York Philharmonic, releasing two solo CDs, getting profiled on 60 Minutes. Montero returns for another edition of "Sing It and Wing It," in which she improvises around a song sung by a guest on the phone.
()Gabriela Montero loves it when listeners sing her a tune that she can improvise around, right on the spot. This time, the song is the well known "You Are My Sunshine." You can hear the rays of sunlight shining through in Montero's off-the-cuff rendition.
()Gabriela Montero and a Performance Today listener team up to give John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads" a new twist.
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