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- Chapter One: A question of place. Rehearsal Styles. The Weimar workshop. national identity and interpretation. Globalism and partition. Globalism and partition. an audition with wilhelm furtwangler - Chapter Two: the singularity of performance. Ephemerality of sounf. the score and literary test as absolute. the psychology of tonality. composers, writers, and society. art and censorship. detail is all. timing and the Oslo accord - Chapter Three: Art, Politics, and Institutions. on mentors. a style of conducting. the importance of extremes. the art of transition. space and tone. - Chapter Four: Flexibility of tempo. the color and weight of sound. the open pit and bayreuth. adorno and wagner. national socialism and wagner. manipulation and yielding. the questions of a German art. - Chapter Five: What is authenticity now. interoertation and music. past and contemporary masters. a musically literate listener. modernism and inaccessibility - Chapter Six: Organic beethoven. symphonies and concertos. music of the social realm. long crescendo versus subito Piano. music and the line of of most resistance

Israeli Daniel Barenboim, one of the finest musicians of our times, and Palestinian Edward Said, eminent literary critic and leading expert on the Middle East, have been close friends for years. Parallels and Paradoxes is a series of discussions between the two friends about music, politics, literature and society. Barenboim and Said talk about, among other subjects, the differences between writing prose and music; the compromising politician versus the uncompromising artist; Beethoven as the ultimate sonata composer, Wagner (Barenboim is considered by many to be the greatest living conductor of his work); great teachers; and the power of culture to transcend national differences. Illuminating and deeply moving, Parallels and Paradoxes is an affectionate and impassioned exchange of ideas.