Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society

Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society

These free-wheeling, often exhilarating dialoguesâ€”which grew out of the acclaimed Carnegie Hall Talksâ€”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; Wagnerâ€™s anti-Semitism; and the need for â€œartistic solutionsâ€ to the predicament of the Middle Eastâ€”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.
Country USA
Brand Vintage
Manufacturer Vintage
Binding Paperback
Color White
ReleaseDate 2004-03-09
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781400075157

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