Daniel Barenboim, seen on podiums around the world for decades as a pianist and conductor, music director of the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden, and chief conductor in Chicago at the same time – a top career. But all of a sudden the Argentinian and Israeli citizen becomes the founding figure of the classical music scene and, with so much pathos, creates a monument for himself. It was exactly 25 years ago that Barenboim, together with the American-Palestinian literary scholar Edward Said, founded an orchestra in Weimar, then the European Capital of Culture, in the shadow of Goethe’s home – offering young musicians from Israel and the Arab countries of the Middle East East, to realize a utopia, that means making music together in a “sound body”.
Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra: Sounds like hope – culture
