First, I want to say that I really don’t understand music. I like listening music but music and I have communicating problems. In others words, none of my genes is about music. However, I enjoy reading the conversation between Daniel Barenboim, Edward Said and Ara Guzelimian very much. It seems like they are talking about music, but it is not limited to music. There is another much meaningful thing in their conversation.
The part I like it mostly is their attitude toward culture. Using a quotation from the conversation, “I believe that in cultural matters--with literature and, even better , with music, because it doesn’t have to do with explicit ideas -- if we foster this kind of a contact, it can only help people feel nearer to each other, and this is all.” Especially, their idea about culture is not talking about one dominant culture, but different culture join in together. They also said that we cannot understand one case unless we take other’s position to feel about it. It is really interesting, and I thought their idea about music is not limited to music but to a more deeper thing. It is about philosophy. What is the way to see the world? In their perspective, music helps. I don’t know if I would agree with their idea, because I really don’t understand music. Is this to say that if I don’t know music, I couldn’t understand their splendid idea. Actually, I totally agree with them.
Thus, music is not the only way to help people in the middle east, maybe anything about culture can help.
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