 West-East Divan Rehearse. Under the lead of Daniel Barenboim, in Pilas, Sevilla, Spain, 07-25-2005. Image by Fernando Delgado Béjar, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed CC BY-SA 3.0 |
The West One OrchestraWest–Eastern Divan Orchestra West–Eastern Divan Orchestra Orchestra based in Seville, Spain The West–Eastern Divan Orchestra is based in Seville, Spain, and consists of musicians from countries across the Hispanophone world and the Middle East—of Egyptian, Iranian, Israeli, Jordanian, Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian, and Hispanic background. Rehearsal under the direction of Daniel Barenboim, in Pilas, Spain, on 25 July 2005 It was jointly founded in 1999 by Argentine-Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim and Palestinian-American academic Edward Said, who named the Orchestra and workshop after West-östlicher Divan, an anthology of poems written by the German polymath Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - a central work for the development of the concept of world culture. In 2015, Argentine pianist Martha Argerich, as Barenboim's long term performing… (Source: Wikipedia)
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