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Music at the limits
- Title
- Music at the limits / Edward W. Said.
- Author
- Said, Edward W.
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.
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- Description
- xiii, 325 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- The music itself : Glenn Gould's contrapuntal vision -- Remembrance of things played : presence and memory in the pianist's art -- Pomp and circumstance (on musical festivals) -- On Richard Strauss -- Die Walküre, Aida, X -- Music and feminism -- Maestro for the masses (review of Understanding Toscanini) -- Middle age and performers -- The Vienna Philharmonic : the complete Beethoven symphonies and concertos -- The Barber of Seville, Don Giovanni -- Glenn Gould at the Metropolitan Museum -- Giulio Cesare -- Bluebeard's Castle, Erwartung -- Extreme occasions (on Celibidache) -- Peter Sellars's Mozart -- András Schiff at Carnegie Hall -- Richard Strauss -- Wagner and the Met's Ring -- Opera productions (Der Rosenkavalier, House of the dead, Doctor Faust) -- Style and stylessness (Elektra, Semiramide, Katya Kabanova) -- Alfred Brendel : words for music (review of Alfred Brendel's Music sounded out: essays, lectures, interviews, afterthoughts) -- Die tote Stadt, Fidelio, The death of Klinghoffer -- Uncertainties of style (The ghosts of Versailles, Die Soldaten) -- Musical retrospection -- The bard festival -- The importance of being unfaithful to Wagner -- Music as gesture (on Solti) -- Les troyens -- Child's play (review of Maynard Solomon's Mozart: a life) -- 32 short films about Glenn Gould -- Bach's genius, Schumann's eccentricity, Chopin's ruthlessness, Rosen's gift (review of Charles Rosen's The romantic generation) -- Why listen to Boulez? -- Hindemith and Mozart -- Review of Michael Tanner's Wagner -- In the chair (review of Peter Ostwald's Glenn Gould and the tragedy of genius) -- On Fidelio -- Music and spectacle (La cenerentola and The rake's progress) -- Review of Gottfried Wagner's He who does not howl with the wolf : The Wagner legacy: an autobiography -- Bach for the masses -- Daniel Barenboim (bonding across cultural boundaries) -- Glenn Gould, the virtuoso as intellectual -- Cosmic ambition (review of Christoph Wolff's Johann Sebastian Bach: the learned musician) -- Barenboim and the Wagner taboo -- Untimely meditations (review of Maynard Solomon's Late Beethoven).
- Call Number
- JME 08-289
- ISBN
- 9780231139366 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0231139365 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007002276
- OCLC
- vendor
- Author
- Said, Edward W.
- Title
- Music at the limits / Edward W. Said.
- Imprint
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.
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- Research Call Number
- JME 08-289