
Music at the Limits
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'Edward Said had a lifelong passion for music, and possessed the rare ability to write about it for the general reader with a lucid and penetrating intelligence' - TLS
'There are few whose command of words is sufficient not only to illuminate music, but to help music illuminate the world of those who make and listen to it. Said was one' - Daily Telegraph
'The sheer eloquence of Said's writings reminds us that with his untimely death we have lost one of our most distinguished music critics.' - Maynard Solomon, The Julliard School
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WITH A FOREWORD BY DANIEL BARENBOIM
Music at the Limits brings together three decades of Edward W. Said's essays and articles on music.
Addressing the work of a wide variety of composers and performers, Said analyses music's social and political contexts, and provides rich and often surprising assessments. He reflects on the censorship of Wagner in Israel; the relationship between music and feminism; and the works of Beethoven, Bruckner, Rossini, Schumann, Stravinsky and others. Always eloquent and often surprising, Music at the Limits reinforces Said's reputation as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century.
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'This fine collection by one of the most perceptive music critics of the last half-century is highly recommended' - Library Journal
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Part I: The Eighties
- 1. The Music Itself: Glenn Gould's Contrapuntal Vision
- 2. Remembrances of Things Played: Presence and Memory in the Pianist's Art
- 3. Pomp and Circumstance (on Musical Festivals)
- 4. On Richard Strauss
- 5. Die Walküre, Aida, X
- 6. Music and Feminism
- 7. Maestro for the Masses (review of Understanding Toscanini)
- 8. Middle Age and Performers
- 9. The Vienna Philharmonic: The Complete Beethoven Symphonies and Concertos
- 10. The Barber of Seville, Don Giovanni
- 11. Glenn Gould at the Metropolitan Museum
- 12. Giulio Cesare
- 13. Bluebeard's Castle, Erwartung
- 14. Extreme Occasions (on Celibidache)
- 15. Peter Sellars's Mozart
- 16. András Schiff at Carnegie Hall
- Part II: The Nineties
- 17. Richard Strauss
- 18. Wagner and the Met's Ring
- 19. Opera Productions (Der Rosenkavalier, House of the Dead, Doctor Faust)
- 20. Style and Stylessness (Elektra, Semiramide, Katya Kabanova)
- 21. Alfred Brendel: Words for Music (review of Alfred Brendel's Music Sounded Out: Essays, Lectures, Interviews, Afterthoughts)
- 22. Die Tote Stadt, Fidelio, The Death of Klinghoffer
- 23. Uncertainties of Style (The Ghosts of Versailles, Die Soldaten)
- 24. Musical Retrospection
- 25. The Bard Festival
- 26. The Importance of Being Unfaithful to Wagner
- 27. Music as Gesture (on Solti)
- 28. Les Troyens
- 29. Child's Play (review of Maynard Solomon's Mozart: A Life)
- 30. 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould
- 31. Bach's Genius, Schumann's Eccentricity, Chopin's Ruthlessness, Rosen's Gift (review of Charles Rosen's The Romantic Generation)
- 32. Why Listen to Boulez?
- 33. Hindemith and Mozart
- 34. Review of Michael Tanner's Wagner
- 35. In the Chair (review of Peter Ostwald's Glenn Gould and the Tragedy of Genius)
- 36. On Fidelio
- 37. Music and Spectacle (La Cenerentola and The Rake's Progress)
- 38. Review of Gottfried Wagner's He Who Does Not Howl with the Wolf: The Wagner Legacy-An Autobiography
- 39. Bach for the Masses
- Part III: 2000 and Beyond
- 40. Daniel Barenboim (Bonding Across Cultural Boundaries)
- 41. Glenn Gould, the Virtuoso as Intellectual
- 42. Cosmic Ambition (review of Christoph Wolff's Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician)
- 43. Barenboim and the Wagner Taboo
- 44. Untimely Meditations (review of Maynard Solomon's Late Beethoven)
- Appendix: Bach/Beethoven
- Acknowledgments
- Footnotes
- A Note on the Author
- By the Same Author
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