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...Barenboim is currently music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Staatskapelle. His musical career includes performances with all of the world’s major orchestras, hundreds of recordings, and dozens of international awards...
...addition to his work as a musician, Barenboim, an Israeli Jew, has garnered a reputation as an outspoken advocate for peace in the Middle East...
Along with the late Columbia University professor Edward Said, Barenboim founded the West-Eastern Divan Workshop, an orchestra for music students in Middle Eastern nations aimed-at bringing young people together “to make music on neutral ground,” according to Barenboim’s personal website...
...Barenboim caused a flurry of controversy when he led a performance of Wagner’s opera “Tristan und Isolde” in Israel. Prior to the performance, the country had maintained an informal ban on the music of Wagner, whose compositions are said to have influenced Adolph Hitler...
Fellow concert pianist and Harvard professor Robert D. Levin ’68 calls Barenboim a “philosopher musician...