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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I was introduced to Edward Said many years ago at university, in which I found his works insightful and uniquely eye-opening among the pack of academics. Later I found that not only was Edward Said a great scholar, writer, but also a great lover of music. In this book I've found that Said was a big fan of Glenn Gould, endlessly talked on topics of opera (not my personal forte, I prefer instrumental music), and plenty of interesting discussions, reviews, and critiques on composers, conductors, pianists, and other musical events, contemporaries. This is an amazing book fortune of insights on music that are must for the ardent musician and the amateur fans of the world of Classical music. ( ) sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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Music at the Limits is the first book to bring together three decades of Edward W. Said's essays and articles on music. Addressing the work of a variety of composers, musicians, and performers, Said carefully draws out music's social, political, and cultural contexts and, as a classically trained pianist, provides rich and often surprising assessments of classical music and opera. Music at the Limits offers both a fresh perspective on canonical pieces and a celebration of neglected works by contemporary composers. Said faults the Metropolitan Opera in New York for being too conservative and laments the way in which opera superstars like Pavarotti have "reduced opera performance to a minimum of intelligence and a maximum of overproduced noise." He also reflects on the censorship of Wagner in Israel; the worrisome trend of proliferating music festivals; an opera based on the life of Malcolm X; the relationship between music and feminism; the pianist Glenn Gould; and the works of Mozart, Bach, Richard Strauss, and others. Said wrote his incisive critiques as both an insider and an authority. He saw music as a reflection of his ideas on literature and history and paid close attention to its composition and creative possibilities. Eloquent and surprising, Music at the Limits preserves an important dimension of Said's brilliant intellectual work and cements his reputation as one of the most influential and groundbreaking scholars of the twentieth century. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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