Ebook: Parallels and paradoxes : explorations in music and society
Author: Beethoven Ludwig van, Wagner Richard, Barenboim Daniel, Guzelimian Ara, Wagner Richard, Beethoven Ludwig van, Said Edward W
- Tags: Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics., Music -- Interpretation (Phrasing dynamics etc.), Music -- Social aspects., Wagner Richard -- 1813-1883 -- Criticism and interpretation., Beethoven Ludwig van -- 1770-1827 -- Criticism and interpretation., MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical., MUSIC -- Reference., Beethoven Ludwig van -- 1770-1827., Wagner Richard -- 1813-1883.
- Year: 2008
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- City: New York
- Edition: 1st Vintage books ed
- Language: English
- epub
These free-wheeling, often exhilarating dialogues--which grew out of the acclaimed Carnegie Hall Talks--are an exchange between two of the most prominent figures in contemporary culture: Daniel Barenboim, internationally renowned conductor and pianist, and Edward W. Said, eminent literary critic and impassioned commentator on the Middle East. Barenboim is an Argentinian-Israeli and Said a Palestinian-American; they are also close friends.
As they range across music, literature, and society, they open up many fields of inquiry: the importance of a sense of place; music as a defiance of silence; the legacies of artists from Mozart and Beethoven to Dickens and Adorno; Wagner's anti-Semitism; and the need for "artistic solutions" to the predicament of the Middle East--something they both witnessed when they brought young Arab and Israeli musicians together. Erudite, intimate, thoughtful and spontaneous, Parallels and Paradoxes is a virtuosic...