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Music Quickens Time.(Daniel Barenboim)(Brief article)

The New Yorker

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For Barenboim, the conductor and pianist, music is a school for life, and its main lesson is duality--the way that a secondary voice in a Bach fugue is no less important than its main subject, or that Mozart's music constantly balances the lighter and darker aspects of human experience. (Barenboim holds both Israeli and Palestinian citizenship.) If some of the political analogies in this ...

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