Daniel Barenboim
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Interview with Daniel Barenboim''Mutual Appreciation Is Essential''
Pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim has founded an academy in Berlin for musicians from the Middle East, an effort at easing decades of conflict. Peter Zimmermann talked to him about the background and his hopes for the project
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Daniel Barenboim and Arab Anti-Israel SentimentA Classic Example of Political Naivety
The Israeli star conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim and his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra were invited to perform in Qatar. Then, following pressure from Arab opponents of a normalisation of relations with Israel, the invitation was withdrawn. As far as the Jordanian author Fakhri Saleh is concerned, this is evidence of political naivety
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Edward W. Said: ''Music at the Limits''Undifferentiated Blanket Judgements and Insults
Overbearing, partial, brash: Said's book Music at the Limits compiles the great Arab intellectual's music criticism. A review by Jens Rosteck