Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society - Hardcover

Barenboim, Daniel; Said, Edward W.; Guzelimian, Ara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375421068 ISBN 13: 9780375421068

Verlag: Pantheon Books, 2002

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Book by Barenboim Daniel Said Edward W

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Presents an intimate conversation about music and politics between the Israeli director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and a Palestinian-American critic and scholar--two long-time friends--discussing such topics as Beethoven, education, the differences between writing prose and music, and the power of culture to transcend national and political differences. 15,000 first printing.

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This fascinating exchange between two of the most prominent figures in contemporary culture, Daniel Barenboim, Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin, and Edward W. Said, the eminent literary critic and scholar and a leading expert on the Middle East, grew out of the acclaimed Carnegie Hall Talks. A unique and impassioned discussion about politics and culture, it touches on many diverse subjects: the importance of a sense of place; the differences between writing prose and music; the conductors Wilhelm Fürtwangler and Arturo Toscanini; Beethoven as the greatest sonata composer; the difficulty of playing Wagner; the sound at Bayreuth; the writers Balzac, Dickens, and Adorno; the importance of great teachers; and the power of culture to transcend all national and political differences――something they both witnessed when they brought together young Arab and Israeli musicians to play at Weimar in 1999.

Although Barenboim and Said have very different points of view, they act as catalysts for each other. The originality of their ideas makes this a book that is both accessible and compelling for anyone who is interested in the culture of the twenty-first century.

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• Verlag: Pantheon Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0375421068
• ISBN 13: 9780375421068
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1109