Word: barenboim
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Over the course of a long career, Barenboim has both played with and conducted the world’s premier orchestras, most recently the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which he left last July after a 15-year tenure...
According to Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Professor of Music Robert D. Levin ’68, who sat on the 5-person committee that invited Barenboim to Harvard, Barenboim was a natural choice for the Norton Lectures...
...Divan Orchestra has been a locus of controversy in the Middle East. "There were many people in Palestine who didn’t want to see the orchestra playing in Palestine because they said it reeked of normalization," Barenboim says. "I took the orchestra to Ramallah as an act of defiance...
...addition, Barenboim drew fire from Jewish organizations for his friendship with the late Palestinian activist and writer, Edward Said, and for conducting music by 19th-century composer and anti-Semitic pamphleteer Richard Wagner in Israel...
...Barenboim seems to show that he’s more concerned with change on a person-to-person level rather than sweeping societal change, when it comes to his work...