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...thought, 'I said what?'" he recalls. "It's embarrassing, because it's not what I meant and it's certainly not what I think." Let's hope he finds a better translator now that he's made his long-awaited move to the podium of Berlin's legendary Philharmonic Orchestra...
...around 11 or 12, and all I remember is the feeling that I wanted to be in the center of this," he says. "It never occurred to me that it would happen as fast as it did." At 25, he became principal conductor of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, where he made his mark with an eclectic approach to the musical canon...
...locals are happy about the festival. Xuan Ke, venerable patriarch of the Naxi Ancient Music Orchestra, gripes, "Some Peking University students went to the mountain and five students lost their lives because they coughed. Here, there will not only be coughing but shouting and drumming. Then our very calm mountain will be changed, destroyed by this loud music." In the end, though, the mountain tolerates our intrusion. The music is good and loud, and the festival, for all its compromised counterculturalism, is a success in the eyes of the fans. They rock the night away, no one dies...
...signify a meeting place, a ministry, a court, an account book, a great hall, even a collection of poems, as in the 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...
...started with a week in New York City preparing for a concert with the New England Symphonic Ensemble. The week had been adventurously assorted: visiting friends, discovering the parks, street fairs, libraries and museums with my mom, practicing Haydn and Vivaldi in my hotel room, performing with the orchestra and several choirs to a crowd...