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Because he is small (5 ft. 6 in.), mop-haired and young (19), Israeli Pianist Daniel Barenboim sometimes resembles a rebellious child who would rather be playing baseball than fondling the keys. Playing with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra last week on a U.S. tour that opened with a triumphant appearance in New York, he swiveled around in moments of inaction and regarded the orchestra's string section with an intensity so fierce that it seemed ready to wither the first violinists. But Barenboim's dis concerting mannerisms are only the mark of an extra-attentive and highly sensitive...
...Barenboim claims that "I was listening to music before I was born." Both his parents taught piano in Buenos Aires, where Daniel became"just another pupil" when he was five. He did not remain so for long. By the time he was nine, he had given recitals in Argentina and Europe, and was performing in Tel Aviv, where his parents had settled. He won the first America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship to study in Europe, and at 13 became the youngest student in the history of Rome's Academy of Santa Cecilia to win a master's degree...