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BBC Reith Lecturer 2006 - In the beginning was sound

 
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BBC Reith Lecturer 2006 - Daniel Barenboim

He'd given his first concert in Buenos Aires at the age of
seven, and at the age of eleven he'd been declared a phenomenon
by the legendary conductor Wilhelm Fürtwangler. His life has been
and continues to be saturated with music. A virtuoso at the piano,
he later became a supreme master of the podium. In these lectures
he'll be drawing on a lifetime of musical experience to demonstrate
that music, as he puts it, is a way to make sense of the world -
our politics, our history, our future, and our very essence.
Daniel Barenboim doesn't shy from controversy. He's shown himself
willing to take courageous public stands. Six years ago he founded,
against the odds, an orchestra made up of equal numbers of Arab
and Israeli young members, the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra,
not least to demonstrate that it's possible through music for people
from warring factions to find peaceful co-existence.

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