Music at the limits
By: Edward W. Said
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780231139366; 9780231511551
Subjects: Musical criticism; Opera -- Reviews; Operas -- Performances -- 20th century; Concerts -- Reviews; Music -- Book reviews
Genres: Reviews; Book reviews
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The music itself : Glenn Gould's contrapuntal vision; title: Remembrance of things played : presence and memory in the pianist's art; title: Pomp and circumstance (on musical festivals); title: On Richard Strauss; title: Die Walküre, Aida, X; title: Music and feminism; title: Maestro for the masses (review of Understanding Toscanini); title: Middle age and performers; title: The Vienna Philharmonic : the complete Beethoven symphonies and concertos; title: The Barber of Seville, Don Giovanni; title: Glenn Gould at the Metropolitan Museum; title: Giulio Cesare; title: Bluebeard's Castle, Erwartung; title: Extreme occasions (on Celibidache); title: Peter Sellars's Mozart; title: András Schiff at Carnegie Hall; title: Richard Strauss; title: Wagner and the Met's Ring; title: Opera productions (Der Rosenkavalier, House of the dead, Doctor Faust); title: Style and stylessness (Elektra, Semiramide, Katya Kabanova); title: Alfred Brendel : words for music (review of Alfred Brendel's Music sounded out: essays, lectures, interviews, afterthoughts); title: Die tote Stadt, Fidelio, The death of Klinghoffer; title: Uncertainties of style (The ghosts of Versailles, Die Soldaten); title: Musical retrospection; title: The bard festival; title: The importance of being unfaithful to Wagner; title: Music as gesture (on Solti); title: Les troyens; title: Child's play (review of Maynard Solomon's Mozart: a life); title: 32 short films about Glenn Gould; title: Bach's genius, Schumann's eccentricity, Chopin's ruthlessness, Rosen's gift (review of Charles Rosen's The romantic generation); title: Why listen to Boulez?; title: Hindemith and Mozart; title: Review of Michael Tanner's Wagner; title: In the chair (review of Peter Ostwald's Glenn Gould and the tragedy of genius); title: On Fidelio; title: Music and spectacle (La cenerentola and The rake's progress); title: Review of Gottfried Wagner's He who does not howl with the wolf : The Wagner legacy: an autobiography; title: Bach for the masses; title: Daniel Barenboim (bonding across cultural boundaries); title: Glenn Gould, the virtuoso as intellectual; title: Cosmic ambition (review of Christoph Wolff's Johann Sebastian Bach: the learned musician); title: Barenboim and the Wagner taboo; title: Untimely meditations (review of Maynard Solomon's Late Beethoven)