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Edward Said and Daniel Barenboim © Fundación Barenboim-Said
Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said, Prince of Asturias Award, October 2002
Biography of Edward Said standing on one of the Wedo musician's rostrum © George Yammine
Daniel Barenboim rehearses with the young musicians of the first workshop for young musicians from Israel, Palestine and other Arab countries, in the presence of Edward Said and Yo-Yo Ma.
Daniel Barenboim conducts the West-Eastern Divan (2007) © Monika Rittershaus
Daniel Barenboim closely listening to Akademie students (February 2017) © Peter Adamik
Humanism is the only – I would go so far as saying the final – resistance we have against the inhuman practices and injustices that disfigure human history. Separation between peoples is not a solution for any of the problems that divide peoples. And certainly ignorance of the other provides no help whatever. Cooperation and coexistence of the kind that music lived as we have lived, performed, shared and loved it together, might be. Edward Said
Edward Said and I see our project as an ongoing dialogue in which the universal, metaphysical language of music links with the continuous dialogue that we have with young people, and that young people have with each other. Great music is the result of concentrated listening. Every musician listens intently to the voice of the composer and to each other. Harmony in personal or international relations can also only exist through listening, each party opening its ears to the other’s narrative or point of view. Daniel Barenboim