on Friday evening in the Boulez hall the last sky sounds of Boulez died away and the audience rose to a standing ovation, rushed an exhausted Barenboim from musician to musician and thanked him with a warm hug. There is a concert in honor of the venerable world architect Frank Gehry, the 90 was. Birthday celebrated, in his Boulez hall, a jewel of the Berlin concert world. What Reverence!
I can work on the ten years with Daniel Barenboim at the Staatsoper and RUB me eyes, what I have read about this artist who has done everything for the city and the culture of Berlin and even more. I read it correctly?
great moments we have experienced with Daniel Barenboim and his incomparable Staatskapelle, which he has developed into one of the best orchestras in the world, and with his wings, which he can elicit from a child, to our delight, the most beautiful sounds, which you can listen to our great joy.
Ten years, and more so, we worked in a “climate of fear”. How is this going to go, pretty please? The monsters on the hallways? Arms, pale-faced, lean staff press desperately into corners and niches, if the emperors boots with your Praetorians on the stage?
services like these do not come under pressure and coercion
We have difficult times behind us and yet, in the Schiller theater, more than 100 (in words one hundred!) Productions of the larger and smaller kind of organized – and with success! Someone who has stuck his nose in a Theater, which is the provenance, believes that any such benefits could arise, under pressure and coercion? For forty years I have as a theatre Director behind me, but neither in Cologne, nor in Hamburg, at the Triennale, in the certainly not simple Salzburg festival there ever was a “climate of fear”. So even in the Opera, neither in the Bismarck street “unter den Linden”!
I know the Opera as well as a few. I would have felt as the boss, ever such a climate, I would have locked up the door and the window and fresh air flow! Must! What I would give, if I still had once a year with Daniel. I went the same morning to work. He’s a smart, quick-witted and very funny man. On his musical education and artistic skills, his uncomfortable political views, there is really nothing to argue. His home, the land of Israel, is about his commitment to peace in the Middle East, about his commitment to the divan orchestra is not at all pleased. And to top it all there is the depth of his talent for empathy.
After my stroke Daniel visited me all the days
As our highly honored concert master Batzdorf retired, was preparing Daniel for a truly unique farewell. In front of thousands of spectators in the Royal Albert Hall, he gave him a thank-you speech (standing ovation). As Axel Wilczok, also one of our concert master, hard to cancer, held Barenboim to him and insisted on his participation. Barenboim was close to Axel until his painful death.
As Moidele Bickel laid, I told him about it, we immediately went to the hospital and told of earlier. He knew this unparalleled costume designer from the common great work on “Wozzeck” in Paris with Patrice Chéreau. He was still a couple of times with her and she was always the same cheerful and happy.
some time Ago I had a bad stroke. I didn’t know what was happening to me and what would. Daniel visited me all day, gave me words of encouragement and talked about so much in the Future. I know that I would have recovered without his constant encouragement, never so good and fast. As our friend and dramaturge Jens Schroth died, he left us pretty upset. At a small ceremony in his honor Daniel Barenboim sat down at his wings, and played for Jens and for us, how comforting that was!
“climate of fear”, as the Newspapers write. Know the nine times is not wise that you the bleaching inaction reject this, all of the love and hardworking staff insulting?
When you host the game in China, Barenboim invited the whole orchestra to dinner
Many colleagues in the Press were on many trips to the chapel with Daniel around the world to our guests. None of that was close to the action in the Carnegie Hall, or even recently in Japan, or China, has noted a “climate of fear”. Hello? Has no one noticed that the music Director has recently invited in to the guest game in China – as usual – the entire orchestra to a sumptuous dinner?
the ways of The art are varied and complex, and difficult. The target is usually in the distance. On this path, some will probably remain out of breath on the sidelines, amazed that the journey continues, without him. Because, of course, there are in artistic processes, frictions, and prior to that no one is immune, in front of fierce clashes and a large dispute. For the sake of what? We all know who work in these institutions, that are somewhat Blurred, such as taste and fashions of unpredictable phenomena. Therefore, of course, we are there, and in no factory.
Even the noble Nikolaus Harnoncourt was shaken by the violent anger out of his skin: “Please, he cried out loud, give it a try!” And shook his clasped hands high in the air. As a double bass player and a Mozart piano starred place Mat is too loud, the Maestro is quite soggy and very forte, he could play from home, that would be the right volume. Harnoncourt took evil and started the job immediately.
And the successor. We should leave the famous orchestra, the Senator and Daniel Barenboim. The be the make. But still conducts and he plays for us, and we are happy!
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Jürgen Flimm, Born in 1941, was from 2010 to 2018 artistic Director of the Staatsoper unter den Linden.