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Article: Jews and the Wagner problem.(Wagner: The Terrible Man and His Truthful Art)(Book Review)
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Wagner: The Terrible Man and His Truthful Art. By M. OWEN LEE. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999
On May 31, 2001, as part of his musical contribution to the Israel Festival, Daniel Barenboim conducted the Berlin Staatskapelle Orchestra in a selection from the opera Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner. (1) A firestorm erupted. Ehud Olmert, the mayor of Jerusalem, characterized Barenboim's action as "brazen, arrogant, uncivilized, and insensitive." A lengthy article in an August issue of The New Yorker relates that, in Berlin, where Barenboim is conductor and music director of the Staatsoper, the leader of the Christian Democratic faction in the city's ...