Music at the Limits

Edward W. Said (1935-2003) was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He was the music critic for the Nation and the author of numerous books, including Out of Place, Culture and Imperialism, and Orientalism. His books with Columbia University Press include Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography, Humanism and Democratic Criticism, Beginnings: Intention and Method, and Musical Elaborations.

Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Part I: The Eighties 1. The Music Itself: Glenn Gould?s Contrapuntal Vision 2. Remembrances of Things Played: Presence and Memory in the Pianist's Art 3. Pomp and Circumstance (on Musical Festivals) 4. On Richard Strauss 5. Die Walkre, Aida, X 6. Music and Feminism 7. Maestro for the Masses (review of Understanding Toscanini) 8. Middle Age and Performers 9. The Vienna Philharmonic: The Complete Beethoven Symphonies and Concertos 10. The Barber of Seville, Don Giovanni 11. Glenn Gould at the Metropolitan Museum 12. Giulio Cesare 13. Bluebeard's Castle, Erwartung 14. Extreme Occasions (on Celibidache) 15. Peter Sellars's Mozart 16. Andras Schiff at Carnegie Hall Part II: The Nineties 17. Richard Strauss 18. Wagner and the Met?s Ring 19. Opera Productions (Der Rosenkavalier, House of the Dead, Doctor Faust) 20. Style and Stylessness (Elektra, Semiramide, Katya Kabanova) 21. Alfred Brendel: Words for Music (review of Alfred Brendel's Music Sounded Out: Essays, Lectures, Interviews, Afterthoughts) 22. Die Tote Stadt, Fidelio, The Death of Klinghoffer 23. Uncertainties of Style (The Ghosts of Versailles, Die Soldaten) 24. Musical Retrospection 25. The Bard Festival 26. The Importance of Being Unfaithful to Wagner 27. Music as Gesture (on Solti) 28. Les Troyens 29.Child's Play (review of Maynard Solomon's Mozart: A Life) 30. 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould 31. Bach's Genius, Schumann's Eccentricity, Chopin's Ruthlessness, Rosen's Gift (review of Charles Rosen's The Romantic Generation) 32. Why Listen to Boulez? 33. Hindemith and Mozart 34. Review of Michael Tanner's Wagner 35. In the Chair (review of Peter Ostwald's Glenn Gould and the Tragedy of Genius) 36. On Fidelio 37. Music and Spectacle (La Cenerentola and The Rake's Progress) 38. Review of Gottfried Wagner's He Who Does Not Howl with the Wolf: The Wagner Legacy--An Autobiography 39. Bach for the Masses Part III: 2000 and Beyond 40. Daniel Barenboim (Bonding Across Cultural Boundaries) 41. Glenn Gould, the Virtuoso as Intellectual 42. Cosmic Ambition (review of Christoph Wolff's Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician) 43. Barenboim and the Wagner Taboo 44. Untimely Meditations (review of Maynard Solomon's Late Beethoven) Appendix: Bach/Beethoven Index