There Are Probably Many People In Israel Who Believe That Wagner, Who Died In 1883, Lived In Berlin In 1942 And Was Friends With Hitler.
I Love Conducting. What I'm Tired Of Is Music Administration. I Don't Want That. I Just Want To Make Music.
An Israeli Who Thinks That His Government Is Doing Everything Right Wouldn't Join The Divan Orchestra In The First Place.
Wagner Exploited All Forms Of Expression At A Composer's Disposal - Harmony, Dynamics, Orchestration - To The Extreme. His Music Is Highly Emotional, And At The Same Time Wagner Has Extraordinary Control Over The Effect He Achieves.
Germany Will Never Be A Real, Free Thinking And Free Feeling Friend Of Israel, Because It Will Always Fall Under This Shadow.
If A Man Dreams About Sleeping With Marilyn Monroe, He's Certainly Entitled To That. But When He Wakes Up, He Has To Acknowledge That He Is Married To Someone Else.
I'm Not Naive. I Know Perfectly Well That There Isn't A Single Arab Or Muslim In The World Who Would Say: There Has To Be A Jewish State In The Middle East.
Israel's Strategy Cannot Be To Constantly Confront The Palestinians With The History Of The Holocaust, But Instead To Show Them That Israel Is A Reality.
I'm Sure That There Are Many Israelis Who Dream Of Waking Up One Day To Find The Palestinians Gone. And There Are Many Palestinians Who Dream Of Going To Bed At Night And Waking Up The Next Morning To Find The Israelis Gone.
You Can't Expect Someone Born Into A Family With No Music...to Understand When I'm Conducting The Schönberg Variations.
