[Nicolai P. Zwar]

Well, work and performance are two sides of the same coin:

Printed score and orchestral performance
Written stage play and theatrical performance
Screen play and final motion picture
Recipe and final cake 🙂

And so on. One is a blueprint, the other is the realization of it. So I think they are intertwined. A printed score is just a blueprint for realization, just as a written stage play is a blueprint for the theatrical performance. That doesn’t mean of course that you cannot sometimes focus more on the “work” and sometimes more on the “performance”, and I do have some printed scores, just like I have some written stage plays, and some screen plays. In fact, I have read quite a few screen plays, I find it very interesting do see the “blueprint” behind the realization, but essentially, one makes little sense without the other, one basically exists to bring the other into existence.