Musical writings
By: Edward Said ; foreword by Daniel Barenboim.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780231139366; 9780231511551
Subjects: Musical criticism; Opera -- Reviews; Operas -- Performances -- 20th century; Concerts -- Reviews; Music -- Book reviews
Genres: Reviews; Book reviews
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Articles for The nation. Pomp and circumstance (on musical festivals) ; Music (on Richard Strauss) ; Die Walkure, Aida, X ; Music (music and feminism) ; Middle age and performers ; Music (the Vienna Philharmonic : the complete Beethoven symphonies and concertos) ; The Barber of Seville, Don Giovanni ; Glenn Gould at the Metropolitan Museum ; Giulio Cesare ; Bluebeard's Castle and Erwartung ; Extreme occasions (on Celibidache) ; Peter Sellars's Mozart ; Andras Schiff at Carnegie Hall ; Richard Strauss ; Wagner and the Met's Ring ; Opera productions (Der Rosenkavalier, House of the dead, Doctor Faust) ; Style and stylessness (Elektra, Semiramide, Katya Kabanova) ; Die tote Stadt, Fidelio, The death of Klinghoffer ; Uncertainties of style (The ghosts of Versailles, Die Soldaten) ; Musical retrospection ; The bard festival ; Music as gesture (on Solti) ; Les troyens ; Why listen to Boulez? ; Hindemith and Mozart ; Music and spectacle (La cenerentola and The rake's progress) ; Bach for the masses ; Untimely meditations (review of Maynard Solomon's Late Beethoven); title: Articles for the London review of books. The importance of being unfaithful to Wagner ; Bach's genius, Schumann's eccentricity, Chopin's ruthlessness, Rosen's gift (review of Charles Rosen's The romantic generation) ; In the chair (review of Peter Ostwald's Glenn Gould and the tragedy of genius) ; On Fidelio ; Cosmic ambition (review of Christoph Wolff's Johann Sebastian Bach : the learned musician); title: Other music articles. The music itself : Glenn Gould's contrapuntal vision ; Alfred Brendel : words for music (review of Alfred Brendel's Music sounded out : essays, lectures, interviews, afterthoughts) ; Child's play (review of Maynard Solomon's Mozart : a life) ; Review of Michael Tanner's Wagner ; Review of Gottfried Wagner's He who does not howl with the wolf : The Wagner legacy : an autobiography ; 32 short films about Glenn Gould ; Daniel Barenboim (bonding across cultural boundaries) ; Barenboim and the Wagner taboo ; Maestro for the masses (review of Understanding Toscanini); title: Bach/Beethoven ; Observing Daniel Barenboim.