Breaking: Barenboim to open 2012 Olympics with Beethoven 9th
mainRoger Wright, head of the BBC Proms, announced tonight that, as part of next summer’s cultural Olympics, Daniel Barenboim will conduct a complete Beethoven cycle at the 2012 Proms – culminating in a Ninth Symphony on the night the Games begin.
The orchestra, symbolically for the goodwill element of the Games, will be the West-East Diwan.
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