Archive for the ‘Daniel Barenboim’ Category
Monday, November 12th, 2012
On Saturday evening the BBC’s chief stood before his own and other television cameras and announced his retirement – after 54 days in the job!
This resignation, of director George Entwistle on ,of the “most distinguished station in the world”, as the ‘BEEB’ calls itself , currently finds itself in perhaps its greatest crisis in its history,.
With the resignation of Entwistle and then in-turn, [...] Continue Reading…
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Thursday, September 27th, 2012
We were curious which English speaking Berliners preferred to listen to when in Berlin – was it the BBC World Service Radio or the newly arrived to Berlin NPR or National Public Radio with a local affiliate station in Berlin. We also gave our blog viewers the alternative for a third choice, which was neither of the above but would prefer a [...] Continue Reading…
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Tuesday, August 14th, 2012
After a closing ceremony which the Guardian is calling ‘a raucous pageant of popular culture’ – in fact it was really nothing more than a tedious and chauvinist UK propaganda for has-been ‘culture’ of the 1960’s -very similar in fact like the opening ceremony had been.http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/aug/13/olympic-games-closing-ceremony-culture
That was the negative part.
The 2012 London Olympics are now over and after 2 weeks of some [...] Continue Reading…
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Sunday, July 29th, 2012
Barenboim OTA-Berlin
The spectacle of the of the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremonies seemed at times tedious and dumbed down – as a typical event catering to American TV audiences.
While it was a good idea to show the history of the British Isles – in as much as one can do in such a limited time and space – there was too much [...] Continue Reading…
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Monday, July 23rd, 2012
Evgeny Nikitin – jumped or pushed – does the right thing and vacates Bayreuther Festspiele’.
Where else but in Bayreuth, – with its very sinister dark past and Nazi symbolism, would a ‘sin of youth’ – as his Nazi tattoo has been described – stop a singer from participating in a major cultural event like the Bayreuther Festspiele’ . http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,16118550,00.html
But the ‘sin of [...] Continue Reading…
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Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
Conductor Daniel Barenboim and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra are to play a concert for Benedict XVI today – on 11 July, St. Benedict’s Day so the Pope’s name-day – at the Apostolic Palace of Castelgandolfo. The Pontifical Villas of Castel Gandolfo comprise about 55 hectares (11 more than Vatican City) of which 30 make up a garden while 25 are used for [...] Continue Reading…
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Saturday, June 9th, 2012
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart und Anton Bruckner – OTA Berlin
Almost 60 years after his first concert in Europe, Daniel Barenboim is revisiting Vienna – and as usual with Barenboim – he will do so in style.
Starting yesterday evening Thursday, he will perform all the 9 symphonies of Anton Bruckner with the Staatskapelle Berlin, in the Vienna Musikverein hall. And at the invitation of [...] Continue Reading…
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Thursday, June 7th, 2012
Liebe Gäste und Freunde,die Konzerteinladungen für die nächsten beiden Wochen:
Und am darauf folgenden Freitag, dem 08. 06. um 20.30 h ein Konzert für 2 Flügel mit dem isarelisch-arabischen Duo Amal, welches sich unter der Schirmherrschaft Maestro Barenboims einer großen Karriere erfreut.
Dies ist eine großartige Idee – sehr ähnlich dem West-Eastern Divan orchestra -http://www.west-eastern-divan.org/
Yaron Kohlberg und Bishara Haroni spielen an 2 Konzertflügeln unter [...] Continue Reading…
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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
* May 22nd 1813, Leipzig – † February 13th 1883, Venice
Richard Wagner was a German composer, perhaps he was ’THE’ German’ composer – at least that is what he would have thought – or put otherwise - ”Who was Richard Wagner’s favorite composer?” – Answer – Richard Wagner!
He would turn 199 years old today if that were possible- but it isn’t and instead we have [...] Continue Reading…
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Monday, January 2nd, 2012
RIAS Kammerchor
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin – Det Norske Solistkor
Ludwig van Beethoven: Missa solemnis D-Dur op. 123
Christiane Iven, Sopran
Gerhild Romberger, Alt
Steve Davislim, Tenor
Alfred Reiter, Bass
RIAS Kammerchor
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
‘Det Norske Solistkor’
Musicial Director and Conductor: Hans-Christoph Rademann
While it has become popular to play Beethoven’s 9th Symphony on January 1st as a way to bring in the new year – last night’s [...] Continue Reading…
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Tuesday, October 25th, 2011
Conductor Daniel Barenboim will today receive the first ever ‘Willy-Brandt International Prize’.
The prize is, presented by the Social Democratic Party of Germany /SPD to honour the memory of SPD German politician Willy Brandt, mayor of West Berlin from 1957 to 1966 and Chancellor of West Germany from 1969 til 1974.
Barenboim leads an Israeli-Arab orchestra – the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra- with which [...] Continue Reading…
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