Still, even a work as succinct, direct and moving as his 1992 Symphony No 4 remains a relatively rare beast in live performance.
The show starts with a succinct work by Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla made in 2001 and 2002.
But it is the moment when the work achieves a succinct, poetic resonance that illuminates all the questions about gender, relationships, symbiosis and separateness that it had raised.
Asked what the New Yorkers had said that so quickly sold the virtues of the city, Mr. Billingsley was succinct: "Work," he said.
"I knew the quality of her work, but that succinct summary made it easier for me to go to my managers and to the budget controllers to really advocate for her".
Gamble and Huff had successfully built a studio and succinct work environment that mirrored Motown's hit-making machine and Me and Mrs Jones had just been a juggernaut success for the imprint.
Meister's work is mesmerizingly succinct and elusive, but also ambitious to a degree almost unheard-of among presently-observed aesthetic moments.
Davis defends his work with a succinct rejoinder: Far from being a lobbyist dipping in and out of the dark corners of the world, he is an emissary, trying to sell his clients on the virtues of engagement and decency.
The play (We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrica, Between the Years 1884-1915) han astoundinglyglongong title for such a brilliantly succinct work that weaves a reenactment of the German genocide of the Herero people with a theater company's struggle to shed light on the story.
Methods that work well on succinct types of text such as abstracts, with their neatly delimited context, do not do as well on a publication's full text.
