Klarinet Archive - Posting 000213.txt from 2009/11

From: "Shaw, Tim" <Tim.Shaw@-----.au>
Subj: RE: [kl] Wagner in Israel
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:28:10 -0500

A report from the BBC gives some idea

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1428634.stm

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Leeson [mailto:dnleeson@-----.net]=20
Sent: Tuesday, 1 December 2009 10:18 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Wagner in Israel

Joe,

If I am correct, that was Barenboim with an imported orchestra, perhaps
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Berlin or Vienna Philharmonic. It was not with the IPO. There aren't
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issues with visiting orchestras. But many members of the IPO will not=20
participate in Wagner performances.

Two questions: what is the Israel festival, and what was the reaction to
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performance by Barenboim?

Dan Leeson

----- Original Message -----=20
From: "Joseph Wakeling" <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Monday, November 30, 2009 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Wagner in Israel

> Dan Leeson wrote:
>> I was asked to update an article I wrote on Wagner and realize that I
>> stopped paying attention to the Israel/Wagner controversy in 1999.
At
>> that time, the IPO did not play Wagner (though Mehta tried in 1981).
On
>> the other hand, the New Israel Opera company's music director, Asher
>> Fisch, wanted to mount some Wagner operas.
>>
>> Can one of our Israeli members of klarinet tell me if the situation
has
>> changed radically since the turn of the century?
>
> Well, notably, Daniel Barenboim performed Wagner (an excerpt from
> Tristan und Isolde) at the Israel Festival in 2001.
>
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