Das Waldbühnenkonzert features Ravel’s Boléro and Barenboim as pianist & conductor

Join the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra and Daniel Barenboim for this summer's Waldbühne Berlin concert, the finale to their 2014 tour. The open-air concert sees Barenboim conducting and soloing with the Divan in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat Major, KV 595. The Divan also perform Ravel’s Rhapsodie espagnole, Alborada del gracioso, Pavane pour une infante défunte, and Boléro. Purchase tickets here.   http://vimeo.com/96947669   Following the success of last year's open-air concert, which drew more than 15,000 spectators, this summer’s Waldbühnenkonzert celebrates the 15th anniversary of the West-Eastern Divan, founded in 1999 by Barenboim and the Palestinian literary scholar Edward Said. Meeting in Weimar, Germany – a place where the humanistic ideals of the Enlightenment are overshadowed by the Holocaust – they materialized a hope to replace ignorance with education, knowledge and understanding; to humanize the other; to imagine a better future. Within the workshop, individuals who had only interacted with each other through the prism of war found themselves living and working together as equals. As they listened to each other during rehearsals and discussions, they traversed deep political and ideological divides. Though this experiment in coexistence was intended as a one-time event, it quickly evolved into a legendary orchestra.

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