Daniel Barenboim
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"Daniel Barenboim" is a noted Argentina/Argentine piano/pianist and conducting/conductor. He has served as music director of several major symphonic and operatic orchestras and made numerous recordings.

Currently, he is general music director of La Scala in Milan, the Berlin State Opera, and the Staatskapelle Berlin; he previously served as Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestre de Paris. Barenboim is also known for his work with the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, a Seville-based orchestra of young Arab and Israeli musicians, and as a resolute critic of the Israeli occupation of Palestine/Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.

Barenboim has received many awards and prizes, including an honorary Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire, France's Légion d'honneur both as a Commander and Grand Officier, the German Bundesverdienstkreuz/Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz and Willy Brandt Award, and, together with the State of Palestine/Palestinian-American scholar Edward Said, Spain's Prince of Asturias Awards#Concord/Prince of Asturias Concord Award. He has won seven Grammy Award/Grammy awards for his work and discography. Baremboim is a polyglot, fluent in the Spanish, English, French, German, and Hebrew languages.

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Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.

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Let them do it. Go right ahead.

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Anti-Semitic? What is anti-Semitic about it? ...There is no logic to this claim.

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I just thought that in this place, discussing a book written together with a Palestinian, it shows lack of sensitivity.

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My point of view is very simple. I think war is no option. Trying to play the same note at the same time, with the same loudness, with the same color, with the same amount of joy, everything the same ... this is a fantastic affair.

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I think there were people in the press who knew the truth, but who regarded Jackie as a national treasure - quite rightly - and didn't want to cause her any distress.

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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.

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The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.

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Anti-Semitic? What is anti-Semitic about it? When I say that a uniform should be worn to the right places and not to the wrong ones, there is nothing anti-Semitic about it, there is no logic to this claim. I just thought that in this place, discussing a book written together with a Palestinian, it shows lack of sensitivity.

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