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About Edward W. Said
See more books from this AuthorFor Adorno, Beethoven's late style — with its mixture of filigree and bombast, of exquisite meditation and explosive analysis, its restless range and imposing grandeur — dramatized something profound about its creator's uneasy relationship to his world.
Jul 16 2006 | Read Full Review of On Late Style: Music and Lite...What artist does not yearn, some day, to possess a "late style"?
Jul 16 2006 | Read Full Review of On Late Style: Music and Lite...For while there are late works that radiate - and may even generate - calm acceptance of the passage of time (such as The Tempest), there are plenty of works that could be said to belong to culture's awkward squad, and it's these that Said is particularly concerned with.
May 26 2007 | Read Full Review of On Late Style: Music and Lite...in another, he compares Thomas Mann's Death in Venice (1911) with Benjamin Britten's 1973 opera of Mann's novella, composed near the end of Britten's career.
Jan 30 2006 | Read Full Review of On Late Style: Music and Lite...And when Said/Adorno speaks of ‘the episodic character of Beethoven’s late work, its apparent carelessness about its own continuity’, as a ‘fractured landscape … devoid of sweetness, bitter’, ‘irresolute and fragmentary’, what can this be said to mean, set beside the rigour of the argument Beetho...
| Read Full Review of On Late Style: Music and Lite...And when Said/Adorno speaks of ‘the episodic character of Beethoven’s late work, its apparent carelessness about its own continuity’, as a ‘fractured landscape … devoid of sweetness, bitter’, ‘irresolute and fragmentary’, what can this be said to mean, set beside the rigour of the argument Beetho...
| Read Full Review of On Late Style: Music and Lite...