Title: Parallels and Paradoxes
Subtitle: Explorations in Music and Society
First published: February 3, 2003
Description: 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 collaboration.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Subjects: Music, Nonfiction, Social aspects, Criticism and interpretation, Philosophy and aesthetics, Music, interpretation (phrasing, dynamics, etc.), Music, philosophy and aesthetics, Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.), Wagner, richard, 1813-1883, Beethoven, ludwig van, 1770-1827, Music, social aspects, Aspect philosophique, Aspect social, Esthétique musicale, Interprétation musicale, Musique