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What Beethoven’s Ninth Teaches Us

Daniel Barenboim New York Times
I don’t believe that Beethoven was interested in everyday politics. He was not an activist. He was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was concerned with moral behavior and the larger questions of right and wrong....

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Daniel Barenboim on Music, Israel and Playing in Gaza

Jon Snow Channel 4 News (Ireland)
Conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim talks to Jon Snow about music's power to bring people together, and says Israelis and Palestinians should live together or side by side - but not back to back.
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