It was as meaningful, emotional and surreal as it could have been, to see the man in motion, the maestro I met by chance over a decade ago. Back when Berlin was but a city of cranes and Potsdamer Platz was under way. Before I'd moved here, when I was young, so blissfully naive and surprisingly unaware of the world.
Never, ever could I have imagined how deeply Barenboim's ideas would become embedded and continue to loom large in my mind and life across the pond. His genius in music is without dispute but wonderfully enough, it's also available in written form. He has the most fascinating exchange with the elegant Christian Arab, Edward Said in Parallels and Paradoxes. To read this piece is to know how little you will ever know how to experience music as they do, did...how artists strive to solve life's conundrums through their art
