On Thursday, November 8 at 8:00 p.m. Music Director Daniel Barenboim leads the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra-the lauded ensemble of young musicians from Israel, Palestine, and other Arab countries that ...

The orchestra drawn from Israel and many countries across the Middle East and North Africa play two of Beethoven's Symphonies as part of their... Performers: In 1999, conductor and pianist Daniel ...

NPR Music, WQXR and (Le) Poisson Rouge host a evening that spans great Western and Middle Eastern music with members of an inspiring orchestra,... Daniel Barenboim And Members Of The West-Eastern ...

Did he know he was conducting Beethoven Nine, not Bruckner Nine or Mahler Nine? Twice, I did a double take. Two or three times it felt like Daniel Barenboim's speeds were about to kill the symphony ...

Those qualities were abundant in 25-year-old Austrian-Persian cellist Kian Soltani both as Strauss's Don Quixote - I've never heard a more perfect interpretation live in concert - and back in the ...

Beginning with a rare appearance by the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, there are four large-scale symphonic concerts and two promising chamber music events highlighting this week’s classical music ...

Daniel Barenboim conducts the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra in Beethoven's Symphony No. 2 at Carnegie Hall on Feb. 3, 2013. (Melanie Buford for NPR) Daniel Barenboim, director and co-founder of the ...