Showing posts with label West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Show all posts
Showing posts with label West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Show all posts
Saturday, December 17, 2016

Over to Daniel Barenboim

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We're coming to the end of an insane year. Everything is polarised to lunatic fringe extremes, leaving the sensible, grown-up centre vac...
Saturday, January 26, 2013

Inside Barenboim's West-Eastern Divan Orchestra

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In just three and a half minutes, this inspiring video proves to us that the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra is more than just an orchestra, ...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Is Daniel Barenboim the only person who can fix things?

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It wouldn't surprise me. While the killing continues in the Middle East, he's founding a college in Berlin based on the West-Eas...
Saturday, July 28, 2012

Barenboim - from podium to stadium

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Here's my review for The Independent of the last night of Barenboim & the WEDO's Beethoven cycle, head to head with the Olympic ...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Once more unto the Boulez, dear friends...

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Here's my review for The Independent of last night's Prom: Barenboim & the WEDO again, and they're just getting better and b...
Saturday, July 21, 2012

Guess who I fell in love with yesterday?

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Yes, it's Pierre Boulez. Hearing his Derive 2 at the Barenboim/WEDO Prom somehow resembled discovering a new deep-sea creature that ...
Wednesday, July 18, 2012

An interview with Barenboim & Son

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I've been talking to Daniel Barenboim and his violinist son, Michael , about their burgeoning dynasty. They're respectively conduct...
Saturday, April 21, 2012

Stop press: Barenboim at SOAS - live webcast NOW

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Daniel Barenboim is at SOAS right now, to be interviewed by Jon Snow of Channel 4 News. The event is being live-streamed and you can access ...