Isaiah Berlin's Modernity.

From: Social Research | Date: December 22, 1999| Author: KATZNELSON, IRA | Copyright information

AT THE memorial convened at the Hampstead Synagogue, Alfred Brendel, Isaiah Berlin's close friend, played from the Schubert B-minor sonata. Had he spoken, he might have evoked the appealing qualities of Berlin's many essays by reading how he had portrayed his own craft in Musical Thoughts and Afterthoughts: "What is piano-playing of genius? Playing which is at once correct and bold. Its correctness tells us: this is how it has to be. Its boldness presents us with a surpassing and o...

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