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The Joy of Playing, the Joy of Thinking : Conversations About Art and Performance by Charles Rosen; Catherine Temerson; Catherine Zerner; Israel Rosenfield is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Brilliant, practical, and humorous conversations with one of the twentieth-century’s greatest musicologists on art, culture, and the physical pain of playing a difficult passage until one attains its rewards. Throughout his life, Charles Rosen combined formidable intelligence with immense skill as a concert pianist. He began studying at Juilliard at age seven and went on to inspire a generation of scholars to combine history, aesthetics, and score analysis in what became known as “new musicology.” The Joy of Playing, the Joy of Thinking presents a masterclass for music lovers. In interviews originally conducted and published in French, Rosen’s friend Catherine Temerson asks carefully crafted questions to elicit his insights on the evolution of music—not to mention painting, theater, science, and modernism. Rosen touches on the usefulness of aesthetic reflection, the pleasure of overcoming stage fright, and the drama of conquering a technically difficult passage. He tells vivid stories on composers from Chopin and Wagner to Stravinsky and Elliott Carter. In Temerson’s questions and Rosen’s responses arise conundrums both practical and metaphysical. Is it possible to understand a wor

Who reads The Joy of Playing, the Joy of Thinking : Conversations About Art and Performance?

Author

Charles Rosen; Catherine Temerson; Catherine Zerner; Israel Rosenfield

Publisher

Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674988460

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, History, Music