The University of Iowa School of Music will present a free Improvisation for Classical Musicians concert—the second of three concerts this semester—at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 29, in the University Capitol Centre Recital Hall.

"The second improv concert will again be all improvised, but the particular ways that we improvise will be different," faculty member Jeffrey Agrell says. "There are many different ways to create music, and we like to explore as many different ways as we can in concert to keep it fresh for both the players and the audience.

"The audience, as before, can expect to be asked to join in in various ways. As a matter of fact, we will ask them to bring something from home that makes a noise. The most interesting selections will take part in some way."

Standard music curricula don't teach or encourage music students to invent music, but the UI class taught by Agrell empowers students to learn to "think in music" and be able to listen to each other and create a piece of music, something akin to a group conversation. It is a always a unique concert experience for both performer and audience, since no one knows what is going to happen.