The Joy of Playing, the Joy of Thinking: Conversations about Art and Performance

by Catherine Temerson and Charles Rosen

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674988469
• ISBN13: 9780674988460
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.6" x 7.2"