Cigar Aficionado | Archives | The Conductor: Daniel Barenboim daniel barenboim, Conductor and pianist Extraordinaire, Has Two Passions in LifeHis Music and His Cigars. by Mervyn Rothstein http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Archives/CA_Show_Article/0,2322,636,00.h
Extractions: by Mervyn Rothstein The object in his right hand is a Cuban Hoyo de Monterrey, not a conductor's baton, but Daniel Barenboim feels equally at home with either. Barenboim, music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and artistic director and general music director of the Deutsche Staatsoper in Berlin, smoked his first cigar when he was 14. "It's a funny story," the 53-year-old Barenboim says, pausing to take a puff from his Hoyo in his hotel suite on Manhattan's East Side. A virtuoso pianist as well as renowned conductor, Barenboim is in New York for a solo piano recital at Lincoln Center; when it is over, he will return to Chicago for a month with his orchestra, then bring it east for concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York and Symphony Hall in Boston. His is a life in music, a creative life that began at age five in his native Buenos Aires when his Russian-Jewish émigré parents provided him with his first piano lessons, and blossomed at age seven when he gave his first official concert. Music and a good cigar are Barenboim's two passions, and as the aromatic smoke from his Hoyo flows gently from his mouth, he begins his tale of how the two first intertwined.
Nocturne For Piano No. 19 In E Minor, Op. 72/1, CT. 126 Featuring barenboim, daniel. Label Deutsche Grammophon Godowsky Thepianists pianist. Featuring Godowsky, Leopold. Release 1988. Label APR http://www.mmguide.musicmatch.com/album/work_classical.cgi?WORKID=230292
New Statesman - Bach To School But it was as a pianist that barenboim first conquered the world; daniel barenboimwill play Book One of the WellTempered Klavier on 1 May at the http://www.newstatesman.com/200504180035
Extractions: There are not many musicians who can conduct Mahler's Ninth at the Barbican one night and then return to the same hall a few weeks later to perform a piano recital of solo Bach. But in his various incarnations as pianist, conductor and cultural statesman, Daniel Barenboim has grown from child prodigy to an artist who takes a lead, and a stand, wherever he goes. "I think this is really one of the characteristics of our times," Barenboim remarks. "Postmodernism, if you want, means you can - and if you are a creative person you almost should - have multiple identities, based in other cultures. Paradoxically, only that way do you actually fortify each of these identities, because you are conscious of their differences." Under the intent gaze of his hooded eyes, his trademark cigar wreathing his face in smoke, Barenboim is a powerful presence. The essence of dealing with the demands of such a life, Barenboim feels, is focus. "This is one of the reasons I felt forced to leave the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; so many things were taking so much time that did not have anything much to do with the music." He says his priority now is to tackle what he sees as the root cause of the ongoing threat to classical music. "I really want to explore ideas for what to do about music education. Because I think we are reaching a situation where the very future of classical music and its relation to society will be put into question."
Soundgenerator.com | Daniel Barenboim World renowned conductor pianist Soundgenerator biography DanielBarenboim was born in Buenos Aires in 1942 to parents of JewishRussian http://www.soundgenerator.com/directory/artists_detail.cfm?ArtistID=279
Extractions: Select Search All Bartleby.com All Reference Columbia Encyclopedia World History Encyclopedia Cultural Literacy World Factbook Columbia Gazetteer American Heritage Coll. Dictionary Roget's Thesauri Roget's II: Thesaurus Roget's Int'l Thesaurus Quotations Bartlett's Quotations Columbia Quotations Simpson's Quotations Respectfully Quoted English Usage Modern Usage American English Fowler's King's English Strunk's Style Mencken's Language Cambridge History The King James Bible Oxford Shakespeare Gray's Anatomy Farmer's Cookbook Post's Etiquette Bulfinch's Mythology Frazer's Golden Bough All Verse Anthologies Dickinson, E. Eliot, T.S. Frost, R. Hopkins, G.M. Keats, J. Lawrence, D.H. Masters, E.L. Sandburg, C. Sassoon, S. Whitman, W. Wordsworth, W. Yeats, W.B. All Nonfiction Harvard Classics American Essays Einstein's Relativity Grant, U.S. Roosevelt, T. Wells's History Presidential Inaugurals All Fiction Shelf of Fiction Ghost Stories Short Stories Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Reference Columbia Encyclopedia PREVIOUS NEXT ... BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Barenboim, Daniel
Pianist Barenboim Plays At Orchestra Hall - 12/07/01 pianist barenboim plays at Orchestra Hall By The Detroit News This Monday,daniel barenboim performs works by Beethoven and Chopin at Orchestra Hall, http://www.detnews.com/2001/bestbets/0112/09/e01-360691.htm
Forbidden daniel barenboim performs for Palestinian Children in Ramallah pianist/conductorand prolific recording artist daniel barenboim came to Ramallah to http://www.abusaleh.com/index.php?id=337
Daniel Barenboim News daniel barenboim, the politically outspoken conductor and pianist, lectured atColumbia University on Monday night and drew a link between the taboo on http://www.topix.net/who/daniel-barenboim
Extractions: Advanced Search Enter ZIP, City or News Search All Channels Front Page Autos Business ... XML People 50 Cent America Anthony Hopkins B.B. King ... more... Front Page Entertainment News People Daniel Barenboim Philadelphia Orchestra, 23 January 1971: Saint-Saens Cello Concerto No. 1 conducted by Daniel Barenboim, with Jacqueline Du Pre . * Program * Camille Saint-Saens Cello Concerto No. Topics: Music Classical Entertainment The Philadelphia Orchestra ... Barenboim Punctuates a Magnified Boulez With Vigor Daniel Barenboim's three-concert visit to Carnegie Hall with the Chicago Symphony came to an agreeably vigorous end on Sunday afternoon. Topics: Arts Symphony Music Classical ... Barenboim to perform Brahms' Piano Concertos The London Symphony Orchestra is once again performing with the renowned pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim. Topics: Music Classical Entertainment The London Symphony Orchestra ... Bartoli, Hampson, Lang returning to Symphony Center This is a one column deck. A rich array of visiting orchestras, four concerts with Daniel Barenboim at the piano and guest artists including Cecilia Bartoli, Thomas Hampson, Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Maurizio ... Topics: Symphony Arts Music Classical ... Barenboim Criticizes Israeli Views Daniel Barenboim, the politically outspoken conductor and pianist, lectured at Columbia University on Monday night and drew a link between the taboo on playing Wagner in Israel and that country's treatment of ...
Jonathan Tobin daniel barenboim s futile odysseys to Ramallah and Valhalla worldfamousconductor and pianist daniel barenboim played Beethoven s Moonlight Sonata. http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/tobin092302.asp
Extractions: Can great music transcend politics? Daniel Barenboim's futile odysseys to Ramallah and Valhalla For one day, according to The New York Times, music truly trumped politics. In story headlined " 'Moonlight' and Mendelssohn in the West Bank," Times correspondent Serge Schememann reported that an audience of 200 Palestinian Arab student "froze in delight" as world-famous conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim played Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata. Barenboim had journeyed through Israeli roadblocks to visit the headquarters of the Palestinian Authority to do something more than play Beethoven on an out-of-tune piano. He was playing to more than the audience present at a Quaker-affiliated school. The numerous television cameras and reporters who accompanied him were there to document his appearance as a statement against Israel's policies. The naivete of the statement is almost touching. Does Barenboim really think a piano recital will break down the anti-Jewish hatred that is fed daily to the Palestinian students he charmed?
IClassics daniel barenboim made his debut as a pianist in Vienna and Rome in 1952, in Parisin 1955, in London in 1956 and in daniel barenboim, Jacqueline du Pré http://www.iclassics.com/artistBio?contentId=64
NPR : Performance Today -- The Making Of A Classical CD daniel barenboim and the energetic young ChineseAmerican pianist Lang Langas they daniel barenboim and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the PT 50 http://www.npr.org/programs/pt/features/2003/jul/langlang_barenboim.html
Extractions: Bruce Adolphe's "name that composer" piano quiz The Making of a Classical CD This past winter at Chicago's Symphony Center, PT Host Fred Child went behind-the-scenes with conductor Daniel Barenboim and the energetic young Chinese-American pianist Lang Lang as they prepared to make a recording with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Do musicians approach a recording session the same way as they would approach a concert performance, or a rehearsal? Who exactly is the boss in this whole operation? The conductor? The soloist? The producer in the control room? Fred finds the answers from Lang Lang, Barenboim, Deutsche Grammophon producer Christian Gansch, Prinicipal Oboist Alex Klein, and Assistant Concertmaster Yuan-Qing Yu.
Books At Random House Of Canada - Author Spotlight: Daniel Barenboim between two of the most prominent figures in contemporary culture DanielBarenboim, internationally renowned conductor and pianist, and Edward W. Said, http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/author.pperl?authorid=1386
Barenboim, Starker Perform At Chamber Music Festival EVANSTON, Ill. pianist daniel barenboim, cellist Janos Starker and the 18 - Performers pianist daniel barenboim, clarinetist Matthias Glander, http://www.northwestern.edu/univ-relations/media_relations/releases/2003_11/wint
Extractions: MEDIA CONTACT: Judy Moore at (847) 491-4819 or jkm229@northwestern.edu November 18, 2003 Barenboim, Starker Perform at Chamber Music Festival EVANSTON, Ill. - Pianist Daniel Barenboim, cellist Janos Starker and the Vermeer Quartet are among the distinguished array of artists who will perform chamber music by Schubert, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Mozart and five other leading composers during the Northwestern University 2004 Winter Chamber Music Festival (Jan. 9 to 25). Other artists slated to perform include the Chicago String Quartet, Evanston Chamber Ensemble, Lincoln Quartet and members of the Northwestern University School of Music faculty. The first five concerts will be Friday or Sunday evening events, and the final program of the series is a Sunday matinee. 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 9 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 11 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 16 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 18
Barenboim, Starker Perform At Chamber Music Festival 18 Performers pianist daniel barenboim, clarinetist Matthias Glander, 18 concert featuring guest pianist daniel barenboim are $28 for the general http://www.northwestern.edu/univ-relations/media_relations/releases/2003_11/wint
Extractions: Search Northwestern Search Help University Relations UNIVERSITY RELATIONS Media Relations Site Map University Relations Media Relations Northwestern News Press Release About Media Relations Who we are and what we do News Headlines Current headlines from Media Relations and Northwestern media coverage Press Release Archive Complete catalogue of Press Releases Newsfeed/Audio Faculty commentary and guest speakers Observer Online Northwestern's faculty and staff newspaper Media Guide to Experts Find faculty experts on a variety of subjects Northwestern Fact Sheet Northwestern facts and history Media Contact Information E-mail addresses and phone numbers Northwestern News text only Last updated 04/08/2005 MEDIA CONTACT: Judy Moore at (847) 491-4819 or jkm229@northwestern.edu November 18, 2003 Barenboim, Starker Perform at Chamber Music Festival EVANSTON, Ill. - Pianist Daniel Barenboim, cellist Janos Starker and the Vermeer Quartet are among the distinguished array of artists who will perform chamber music by Schubert, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Mozart and five other leading composers during the Northwestern University 2004 Winter Chamber Music Festival (Jan. 9 to 25). Other artists slated to perform include the Chicago String Quartet, Evanston Chamber Ensemble, Lincoln Quartet and members of the Northwestern University School of Music faculty.
Pianists, The Piano Forums, pianist audio samples, master pianists, piano compositions. barenboim,daniel. daniel barenboim s official website. http://www.zeroland.co.nz/classical_pianists.html
Daniel Barenboim Conducts Wagner In Israel daniel barenboim conducts Wagner in Israel. By Fred Mazelis barenboim, 58,a worldfamous pianist and conductor, is presently the conductor of the http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/aug2001/wagn-a01.shtml
Extractions: 1 August 2001 Use this version to print Send this link by email Email the author A concert that took place in Jerusalem on July 7 produced an uproar in Israel and headlines around the world. The occasion was a performance by the visiting Berlin Staatskapelle orchestra under the direction of Daniel Barenboim. www.daniel-barenboim.com/journal/wagner.htm Barenboim points out that Arturo Toscanini, the noted opponent of fascism who refused to perform at Bayreuth because of the Nazis, conducted the then Palestine Philharmonic Orchestra in performances of Wagner in the 1930s, without objection. It was only after the Kristallnacht pogrom in Germany in 1938 that the orchestra decided that it would not play Wagner because of his associations with the Hitler regime. The Argentine-born pianist and conductor is a major contemporary musical figure and an intellectual who has some interesting things to say about the relationship between music, history and society as a whole. In a recent article in the
Special Dispatch Series - No. 23 On Friday, January 28, 1999, worldfamous concert pianist daniel barenboim, daniel barenboim believes as I do that there can be no separation among http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=subjects&Area=conflict&ID=SP2399
Preisträger Der Buber-Rosenzweig-Medaille 2004 Translate this page 2000 New York Carnegie Hall ehrt daniel barenboim als pianist, Kammermusiker,Dirigent und Lehrer aus Anlass seines 50-jährigen Jubiläums als Künstler. http://www.deutscher-koordinierungsrat.de/de/displayItem.php?id=200
