GAZA -- The program was perfectly normal: a pair of beloved Mozart chestnuts (''A Little Night Music'' and the G minor Symphony), before a lunchtime crowd in a local cultural center. But the concert could hardly have been more out of the ordinary. Daniel Barenboim, the Israeli conductor, led an orchestra of two dozen elite musicians -- volunteers...
The Israeli musician Daniel Barenboim and 25 members of his orchestra performed in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Tuesday. Mr. Barenboim, who has honorary Palestinian citizenship, is a harsh critic of Israel's occupation of Gaza and the West Bank and he co-founded a music education project in the Palestinian territories. WORLD BRIEFING | MIDDLE...
WHEN the Vienna Philharmonic visited Carnegie Hall recently, it brought three programs that largely avoided the orchestra's usual mandate. Haydn and Mozart were missing, and the Romantic canon was represented only by a pair of Beethoven symphonies, some Wagner excerpts and a movement of Mahler. Instead, Pierre Boulez and Daniel Barenboim, who...
Daniel Barenboim (født 15. november 1942 i Buenos Aires) er en argentinsk-israelsk pianist og dirigent. Hans forældre er russiske jøder. Han har israelsk og spansk statsborgerskab. Barenboim blev først berømt som pianist. Som dirigent er han kendt for sit arbejde med orkestre bestående af såvel arabere som jøder og for sit samarbejde med palæstinenseren Edward Said. I 2001 vakte han furore i Israel ved at dirigere musik af Wagner.
Barenboim modtog i 2009 den prestigefyldte Sonnings Musikpris.