DANIEL BAREMBOIM: MUSICAL MORON
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MUSICAL CRITICS OFTEN USE THE WORD “WUNDERKIND” ROUGHLY TRANSLATED AS “WONDERCHILD” TO DESCRIBE A VERY YOUNG PRODIGY….BAREMBOIM IS A “WONDERCUR” WITH A PRODIGIOUS EGO ….HOW NICE IT WOULD BE TO SEE THE CODA TO HIS CAREER….RSK
The Barenboim Lesson Steven Plaut
Daniel Barenboim has, unwittingly, taught a lesson about music. He shows that it is an activity that is, intrinsically, morally neutral. The Nazis could play beautiful Mozart’s beautiful music as the background to the Jewish civilians that were being led to be murdered by the Nazi firing squads. In the same way, Barenboim can lead an orchestra to play in Gaza in support for the community that voted for Hamas — one of the most virulent of the Islamic movements that want to destroy Israel and the Jewish people — and its rocketing of surrounding Israeli cities.
Of course, Barenboim thinks he makes a statement about the morality of music in associating it with Gaza, supposedly affirming this latter, modern incarnation of the Nazi killing machine. Do you suppose, if Barenboim were around at the time, he would have volunteered to lead those Nazi string quartets that served to soothe the nerves of the Nazi firing squads mentioned earlier?
What we witness in Barenboim is a pseudo moralist attempting to assert the universality of music in its link to his deluded vision of the universality of the doctrine of “self-determination,” the doctrine under which Hitler was able to achieve the rape of Czechoslovakia and plunge the world into war. He thinks that this is the right of the Arabs and triumphs over the rights given by the League of Nations to the Jews to establish their homeland.
Apparently, nothing can dampen Barenboim’s conception that his self-styled morality is indeed some kind of universal “high-morality” — the kind the Nazis believed in that gave them the illusion that they had the right to “lebensraum” and the right to murder men, women, and children as an expression of this “high-morality.”
Make no mistake about it. Music is wonderful and, in that it brings out the highest expressions of the emotionality of beauty, is a form of “the good” — something to be desired for itself. But it is not otherwise intrinsically a moral agent. It is what it is and may be coopted in a neutral fashion by good and the evil agents, as Barenboim teaches.
The only lesson to be drawn from the Barenboim orchestra in Gaza is that he himself is a self-deluded, swinish in supporting evil and in using the glory of music to cast a fog — confusion — over the moral implications of what he does.
Hereafter, those who support the musical activities of this morally blind agent should know that, through him, they are in danger of supporting the evil to which he joins himself, which has nothing to do with music he drags along.
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http://www.jewishjournal.com/world/article/barenboim_to_conduct_orchestra_in_gaza_20110502/
May 2, 2011
Barenboim to conduct orchestra in Gaza
JTA
Renowned Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim will present a “peace concert” in the Gaza Strip.
Barenboim, a Palestinian activist, will direct an organization of 25 European musicians on Tuesday, the French news agency AFP reported. The so-called “Orchestra for Gaza” was announced Monday by the United Nations special coordinator for the Middle East peace process.
It marks the first time that Barenboim, who was granted honorary Palestinian citizenship, will visit Gaza. He and the musicians are set to enter Gaza from Egypt through the Rafah crossing, according to AFP.
Barenboim has played for Palestinians in the West Bank on several occasions. He was refused entry to Gaza through Israel on several occasions; it is illegal for Israelis to enter Gaza.
Barenboim lives in Berlin and, in addition to being a citizen of Israel, also is a citizen of Argentina and Spain.
“The concert is to try and bring something to the people of Gaza,” he told APF. “It is not a political event in any sense.”
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Barenboim conducts his “Orchestra for Gaza”
03/05 23:13 CET
Classical music – Gaza – Israel-Palestine Peace Process
For the last 12 years Daniel Barenboim has used his musical reputation to push for peace between Isarel and its neighbours.
This 68 year-old Argentine-born Jew, yet holder of a Palestinian passport had previously taken his music to the West Bank, but now he has broken fresh ground, crossing from Egypt into Gaza to play with his “Orchestra for Gaza”, 25 handpicked musicians from the top ensembles in Europe.
“My goal is that all people in this region reconsider. I think after the revolution in Egypt and the nuclear disaster in Japan everyone is forced to reconsider,” says Barenboim.
Gaza has never seen anything like the quality of entertainment on show, even if power cuts occasionally crashed the party. Everyone present said it was a great event for Gaza.
“I study music myself. We have always wished for an orchestra to come. It was beautiful,” said Bal al-Ghussien.
“Oh, the conductor’s Israeli? I don’t care, I have come to listen to him,” said Amer Abdul Laitf.
More than 300 people packed the tiny venue, organised in part thanks to Barenboim’s UN peace ambassador’s credentials.
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