Parallels and paradoxes : explorations in music and society

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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 Paradoxesis a virtuosic...
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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Ara
Barenboim
Beethoven
Daniel
Edward W
Guzelimian
Ludwig van
Richard
Said
Wagner - Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307489371
- Release date
- 2008