Saturday, August 3, 2013

Men Made Beauty

Barenboim talking about humanity beauty and music.   

 
To be warn it is quite long clip 45 minutes? 


...Referring to Hitler's love of the composer, Barenboim questions how "a monster … who murdered 6 million Jews … had the capacity to go to a performance of Lohengrin opera by Wagner and be moved to tears?" He concludes that "there was no connection between the two" and that "music has the capacity to create a greater reality" ...read more 

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