I just finished this wonderful book while enjoying a nice Seattle's best cookie and cream shake at Borders (one of my favorites).
If you don't know, Barenboim is the former musical director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. His musical advocacy is well documented, but this work really brings everything to a head.
Why do we need music? Barenboim ventures into the interconnectedness of the subject through his experiences. He speaks about how morality and music are related. Music has a certain life span. It's existential existence is finite. Through our own ways of keeping music present in time, we in turn learn to increase our own life. Barenboim also speaks about a subject dear to him; the Israle-Palestein conflict in the mideast. Barenboim imigrated to Israel from Argentina and was invited to perform in Germany in 1954 on piano. He declined because the Holocaust was too much in the minds of Jews at that time. He has become a strong advocate of a two-state solution and equal rights for Palestinians. His work in the region has drawn much praise and he maintains that through music, the conflict can be studied and some form of resolution can be made.
I highly recommend this book.
Check out this dude let Tchaikovsky 4 rip!!
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