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A Master Returns

Daniel Barenboim, ever talented
and outspoken, comes back
to Detroit for a solo piano recital.

SUZANNE CHESSLER
Special to the Jewish News

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hirty-seven years since per-
forming a solo recital in the
Detroit area, conductor-
pianist Daniel Barenboim
will be at the keyboard for a similar
concert sponsored by the Chamber
Music Society of Detroit (CMSD).
"Barenboim is acknowledged
throughout the world as one of the
great artists of our time with a career
that spans continents and embodies
musicianship in several realms," says
Lois Beznos, CMSD president.
"He performs very few North
American piano recitals per season,
making his appearance in the CMSD
series a great rarity. In all my years
with the society, this is the only time
that we have added seating on the first
floor of Orchestra Hall to accommo-
date all the people who wish to
attend."
His selections for the opening pro-
gram of the CMSD 2001-02 season
include sonatas by Beethoven and
Chopin and begin at 8 p.m. Monday,
Dec. 10.
Barenboim, born in 1942 in
Argentina to parents of Jewish-Russian
descent, stirred controversy in July
when he conducted a piece in Israel by
virulently anti-Semitic German com-
poser Richard Wagner.
The music director of the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra and general
music director of the Deutsche
Staatsoper Berlin, Barenboim last year
celebrated his 50th year on stage with
musical events in New York, Chicago,
Berlin and Buenos Aires, the last on
the actual anniversary, Aug. 19.
Barenboim, whose previous local
recital was in 1964 for the University
Musical Society in Ann Arbor, also
conducted the Chicago Symphony in
Ann Arbor in 1992. He also appeared
as a soloist with the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra (DSO) in 1965
and 1973.

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the tutelage of his mother and later his
father, Barenboim launched his career
with a concert at age 7.
After the family moved to Israel in
1952, his parents introduced him to
conducting experience through studies
in Salzburg while he kept up with his
instrumental work. The young
Barenboim made his piano debut in
Vienna and Rome in 1952, in London
in 1956 and in New York in 1957.
From then on, he made annual con-
cert tours of the United States and
Europe.
Barenboim, whose wide range of
recordings since 1954 feature both his
piano and conducting talents, has had
close and long associations with the
English Chamber Orchestra, New
Philharmonia Orchestra of London
and the Orchestre de Paris. This year's
releases include a collection of Richard
Strauss concertos, a program of
French-inspired music and a solo
piano performance.
An active chamber musician,
Barenboim has appeared in the past
with his wife, renowned cellist
Jacqueline du Pre, who died of multi-
ple sclerosis at age 42 in 1987. He also
has preformed with the DSO principal
guest conductor Itzhak Perlman and
violinist Pinchas Zukerman, among
many other classical icons.
Barenboim has also made time for
more everyday sounds from tangos to
the jazz of Duke Ellington and more
contemporary pieces.
"If one does it in an intelligent way
— not just instinctually or emotional-
ly, but intelligently — there is so
much you can learn from music about
the world, about nature and human
nature: interactions, structure and so
on," Barenboim said in a Carnegie
Hall publication.
"But music also gives you the
opportunity to run away from life
because it plays in time and comes out
of nothing. Everything in your life
influences the way you make music."

Barenboim, who has used music as a
way to connect the Jewish and Arab

