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 a...
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.
和而不同 Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society 平行与矛盾——在音乐与社会中的探索 其实，原书名已开宗明义，这是两个不同专业的人中翘楚的共识与异识，重要的，他们并非交斗攀比，而是交流分享；也许，划定专业分类以别不是画地为牢囿于专业空间，...
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“……'Music is sonorous air.' Everything else that is said about music refers to the different reactions that music evokes in people: it is felt to be poetic, or sensual, or spiritual, or emotional, or formally fascinating……music is everything and nothin...
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0 有用 信封在等邮票 2013-01-04 10:03:20
英文看的还是慢。这本回头一定写书评。
0 有用 Nuit Blanche 2019-12-05 22:06:34
Daniel Barenboim: “I think that every great work of art has two faces: one toward its own time and one toward eternity”.
0 有用 lento 2008-12-16 02:04:43
各說各話.....
1 有用 Susana 2022-01-02 00:26:01
我有时候觉得Said是故作高深，对音乐过度解剖，陷入了机械论。同时，他有不懂装懂的地方，但都被他用繁复的修辞掩盖了。在与职业音乐家对话时，他的故作高深、寻辞考据和死拽话题就显得无知而做作。很多时候他的钻牛角尖都被Barenboim巧妙地否定或者导向了其他方向。这本书值得读的是Barenboim那一半。
0 有用 榆杉子 2025-05-03 08:54:39 英国
我的两位偶像. 分歧其实挺根本的 但对话总有一种敞开性 时常有极为精妙的评论. 艺术范畴我同意巴伦更多些———尤其当萨义德很轻佻地将音乐的阐释与文学对应 而巴伦反而在坚持音乐的物质性/在世性时. 但最后一次对话中萨义德对reconciliation的坚决拒斥实在让我想起了为什么喜欢他. 在多补音乐知识（尤其是瓦格纳）后必须重读