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Daniel Barenboim Quotes

Argentinian - Musician | November 15, 1942 -

You find Jews, Irish, and Italians in every orchestra.

Daniel Barenboim

You Find Irish Orchestra Jews Every

I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.

Daniel Barenboim

Think Television Visual Videos Much

More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.

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Eyes More Opera Through Things Used

Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes.

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Knowledge Wrong Concert Notes Every

Either you live by the barometer of the music critics, or you live by your own. I choose the latter.

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Live Music You Choose Critics Own

Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.

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Music Listening You Everything Sense

'Tristan' is a very unique case, not just in Wagner's output, but in music in general. It remains contemporary no matter what else surrounds it. There is something self-renewing about it.

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Music Unique Matter Something Just

Most of the dramatism in Wagner comes from a very close link between the music and the language of the text. So much of the expressivity of Wagner's music dramas comes from the singers' capacity to play with the sound of the language. This kind of thing you can do very well in concert performance.

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Music Performance Language You Play

I get no satisfaction just showing myself in every corner of the world every week.

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Myself World Week Satisfaction Get

Any conductor who tells you that if he is approached for the directorship of the Chicago Symphony that he's not interested in it, you know perfectly well he's lying.

Daniel Barenboim

You Know Chicago Lying Well Who

Of course there is really vile anti-Semitism in Wagner's writings, but I can't accept the idea that characters like Beckmesser and Alberich are Jewish stereotypes in disguise. Would Beckmesser be a court councillor if he was meant to be a Jewish stereotype? No Jew could occupy such a role.

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Meant To Be Stereotypes Accept Jewish

Wagner is contrapuntal in a philosophical way as well as a musical way. What I mean by that is that every tendency has its opposite, and you see that in the man himself. He's a metaphysical hermaphrodite - he embraces hard and soft, masculine and feminine.

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Man You Way Mean Hard See

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