Parallels and Paradoxes

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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.