Daniel Barenbolm

Edward Said was many things for many people, but in reality, his was a musician's soul, in the deepest sense of the word.

He wrote about important universal issues such as exile, politics, integration. However, the most surprising thing for me, as his friend and great admirer, was the realisation that, on many occasions, he formulated ideas and reached conclusions through music; and he saw music as a reflection of the ideas that he had regarding other issues.

This is one of the main reasons why I believe that Said was such....

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