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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...
...call him a conductor is not to do him justice," Levin says. "He is an intellectual powerhouse...
...perspective is unusually interlaced with the larger issues of society and tolerance," says Levin, in reference to Barenboim’s activism for dialogue between Israel and the rest of the Middle East...
Seth R. Flaxman ’08, the Education Chair of the Progressive Jewish Alliance, agrees with Levin. "He’s an example and a model for political engagement for anyone who’s not a politician, and especially for artists," he says...
...wavering at Yale is somewhat suprising, since Levin has long been critical of early admissions and, in 2002, sought approval from the Justice Department to drop the program along with other schools. Perhaps the YDN could explain what accounts for the newfound apprehension...