Doing It
Subtitle: Five Performing Arts
Contributors: Tom Stoppard (Editor)
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: February 9, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9780940322752
Subjects: Performing Arts; Arts In General (Multi-Subject); Art; General; Performing Arts / Theater / History & Criticism
First sentence: I AM SPEAKING here under the rubric "Technique and Interpretation in the Performing Arts," and if there were ever a title dreamed up to strike me dumb, this one verges on inspiration.
Description: "Does an opera producer do anything besides tell the singers where to stand? Can a single note be played more or less beautifully on the piano? Is film art? And why have people started listening to Burt Bacharach again? In these essays, all originally published in The New York Review of Books, five of our most accomplished contemporary critics and artists explore questions of technique and interpretation in the performing arts."--BOOK JACKET.