West–Eastern Divan Orchestra
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The West–Eastern Divan Orchestra is based in Seville, Spain, and consists of musicians from countries across the Hispanophone world and the Middle East—of Egyptian, Iranian, Israeli, Jordanian, Lebane
Rehearsal under the direction of Daniel Barenboim, in Pilas, Spain, on 25 July 2005
Daniel Barenboim
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Daniel Moses Barenboim is an Argentinian-born classical pianist and conductor with Spanish, Israeli and Palestinian citizenship. From 1992 until January 2023, Barenboim was the general music director
West–Eastern Divan Orchestra
…Iranian, Israeli, Jordanian, Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian, and Hispanic background. It was jointly founded in 1999 by Argentine-Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim and Palestinian-American academic Edward Said, who named the Orchestra and workshop after West-östlicher Divan, an anthology of poems written by the…
Barenboim receiving the 2019 Konrad Adenauer Prize from the City of Cologne
Daniel Barenboim, age 11, with composer Eithan Lustig and the Gadna Youth orchestra (1953)
Wedding of Jacqueline du Pré and Barenboim in Jerusalem, 1967. Beno Rothenberg, Meitar collection, National Library of Israel
U.S. concert performance at age 15 (January 1958)