The Difference in Performance: Interpretation and Improvisation

When I receive my daily Google Alerts, I usually cringe when I need my name invoked in web properties beyond which I control because it usually means I’m dead again, or being accused of something that isn’t true.

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Against Improvisation

Students love improvisation and for that very reason, the faculty must discount improvisation as the domain of the unrehearsed, the imperfect and the consequential shortcut. 

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The Genius of Improvisational Comedy

During the last two weeks that I have been thinking about what I wanted to write about in this month’s column, I had many a seemingly good idea, which unfortunately faded away by the time I got to writing it down. This is what I get for always forgetting my Sony Clié by my bedside as it serves as a very good alarm clock, particularly during the Sabbath when one can’t just turn off the alarm clock. (It can be programmed to go off at various times.) Today a good idea finally came to me as I was preparing to write about either the decline of the Disney Corporation, the saturation of advertisement, or perhaps even the tie between eating too much and weighing too much.

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