Interpreting Mozart or the Constitution is neither mechanical reproduction nor unfettered creativity. It is about using your eyes and ears and lived experience and education and critical lens and passion and skepticism and, above all, humility, to tease out the text’s infinite implications, and in doing so, to come closer to its essence.

 

A Pianist and a Law Professor Meet at the Bar …

By Jonathan Biss and Christopher Serkin

Mr. Biss is a concert pianist and Mr. Serkin is a professor at Vanderbilt Law School.