Parallels and Paradoxes

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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 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