Through music, a fervent hope to build bridges of understanding in the Middle East
With the West-Eastern Divan Ensemble, Michael Barenboim is following in his parents' footsteps
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Culture WATCH: Daniel Barenboim Makes Plea For European Unity
Daniel Barenboim, the famed and famously political pianist and conductor, delivered a moving call for European unity while conducting a BBC Proms concert by the Orchestra Staatskapelle Berlin on Sunday. “I think that the main problem today is not the policies of this country and that country and this and that,” he said to an…
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Culture At New Berlin Academy, Israelis and Arabs Find a Musical Path to Peace
Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said — one an Israeli classical music superstar, one a prominent Palestinian American academic — made an unlikely pair. Yet the duo found a rich artistic and intellectual ferment in their differences born, Said told NPR’s Scott Simon in a 2002 interview, out of the fact they were “both passionate about…
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Breaking News Germany Taking Flack for Backing Daniel Barenboim Show in Iran
Star conductor Daniel Barenboim is holding talks to take one of Germany’s main orchestras to Iran, his employer Berlin State Opera said on Thursday, in the face of angry protests from Israel. The opera said the plans by its Israeli-Argentinian musical director had the full backing of German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, setting up a…
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Breaking News Will Daniel Berenboim Play Iran Concert?
Israeli-Argentinean conductor Daniel Barenboim is negotiating with Iran to conduct a concert of a top German orchestra in the Iranian capital of Tehran. Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin at the Berlin State Opera, and has the State Opera’s endorsement to negotiate the concert, as well as that of German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, according to…
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Breaking News Daniel Barenboim Holds ‘Peace Concert’ With Arabs
Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim performed a free outdoor “peace concert” in his native Argentina with an orchestra he co-founded featuring Israeli and Arab musicians. Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra performed a program of Vivaldi’s music on Sunday before a crowd of thousands at a neo-colonial bridge connecting Buenos Aires and the city of Valentin…
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The Schmooze Out and About: Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedy Archive; Talking to Juliano Mer-Khamis
Jerry Seinfeld plans to release nearly all of his recorded standup on his website, Jerryseinfeld.com, tomorrow. The latest LABA Journal is out, featuring Elissa Strauss on why she won’t marry King David, Basmat Hazan on why we definitely need to pay attention to what David is wearing, and Stephen Hazan Arnoff on Justin Bieber, the…
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The Schmooze Berlin New Music Festival Honors Avant-Garde Composer Alexander Goehr
For over half a century, Alexander Goehr has been one of England’s most important composers, an avant-garde musician whose varied (and often challenging) body of work has been championed by luminaries including Pierre Boulez, Simon Rattle, Daniel Barenboim and Jacqueline de Pré. Goehr’s manuscripts have recently been acquired by the music archive of Berlin’s Akademie…
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