id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_o3xcyugdjzcpbhbxbfkubwheke Benjamin Binder Art and Science, Beauty and Truth, Performance and Analysis? 2016 4 .pdf application/pdf 2707 163 62 KEYWORDS: analysis and performance, art and science, Charles Percy Snow, Ian McEwan, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Leonard held between the novelist Ian McEwan and the theoretical physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed, I suggest that although performers and analysts express themselves in very different languages, they are both pursuing the art of interpretation, and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, cited by Arkani-Hamed as an artistic example of scientific "inevitability." understanding of beauty as inevitability and eternal truth turns out to be Leonard Bernstein's legendary television lecture on [7] Consequently, both the performer and the analyst in me would embrace Bernstein's lecture on the first movement of suggested Bernstein conceptualized his performance of the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth in his television lecture. I propose performance and analysis as two faces of interpretation, an act which is both art and science. /2013/nov/17/art-science-ian-mcewan-nima-arkani-hamed. 1. In this article, all quotations from McEwan's and Arkani-Hamed's conversation are presented as they appear in the cited ./cache/work_o3xcyugdjzcpbhbxbfkubwheke.pdf ./txt/work_o3xcyugdjzcpbhbxbfkubwheke.txt