Yesterday's post had me ruminating of what was evil, what was social tolerance, personal feelings about cultural backgrounds: Nazis, persecution, WWII, HEAVY!!!! This has been just one facet of this trip.
So, not wanting to leave only one Berlin post about Jews, Nazi's and WWII, let us move to the recent times. A couple of nights ago I was fortunate enough to catch Daniel Barenboim at the Berlin Philharmonie performing 3 Schubert concertos and two (Chopin I think) encores! It was leeker (delicious). the performance was sublime, the acoustics were incredible and it is a beautiful concert hall. What a treat! Also what I found very poignant is how heartfelt the applause was for this amazing pianist and great man.
Read more about him here: http://www.danielbarenboim.com/about/biography.html
He is not only a great performer and musical genius, but a man of peace. He developed the West East Divan Orchestra with young Arab & Israeli musicians being trained by world class musicians. He is taking culture, music and human interaction to a whole new level.
Berlin is all about culture. It seems that any day of the week you can find performances of all kinds all over the city. Also art, museums, galleries, murals. The need/desire to express runs strong and deep in this city. At twilight, you can peer into any random window and see many rooms filled with books. I find that comforting. Also to see a broad age range at the concert was encouraging, it wasn't just the senior set.
So, onward to Amsterdam and a new post to come from the Netherlands!
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