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World-renowned pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim will join Harvard’s faculty next year as the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, the University announced last week...
...Barenboim, 62, will deliver six lectures in Cambridge beginning next spring and continuing into the fall of 2006 as part of his yearlong professorship...
Since the initial recognition of her talents at age nineteen by Riccardo Muti, Bartoli has ascended into the ranks of the most skilled and sought-after mezzo-soprani in the world. Her early career established her reputation with collaborations with such musical luminaries as Herbert von Karajan, Daniel Barenboim and Nikolaus Harnoncourt. She has since worked with such renowned conductors as Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, Myung-Whun Chung, Christopher Hogwood, James Levine, Zubin Mehta, and Sir Simon Rattle to name...
However, Said’s interests surpassed English literature. He also worked closely with the famous Argentinian-Israeli pianist and composer Daniel Barenboim to create the West-East divan Orchestra...
...West-Eastern Divan of the German writer Goethe. Its newest meaning is a special kind of music. The West-Eastern Divan is the name of an orchestra dreamt up after the chance meeting in a London hotel of an unlikely couple, Israeli conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim and U.S.-based Palestinian writer and critic Edward Said. The players are equally unlikely: 78 musicians aged 13 to 26, roughly half of them Jewish, half from Arab countries. Last week, as the West-Eastern Divan rehearsed in a former Catholic seminary outside this southern Spanish city, Barenboim explained the motivation...