Music at the limits

by Said, Edward W.

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Title Statements

Full title :Music at the limits / Edward W. Said.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:c2008.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Columbia University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:c2008.

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Includes index.

The Physical Object

Description:xiii, 325 p. ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0231139365, 9780231139373, 0231139373, 9780231139366
oclc:on1026269161

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) …