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Barenboim puts on concert for Beirut

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norman lebrecht

August 10, 2020

Two concerts this week by the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra will be dedicated to the Lebanese people and the victims of the Beirut explosion. Daniel Barenboim will conduct works by Beethoven, Wagner, Schoenberg and Boulez on Thursday and Friday in Berlin’s Pierre Boulez Hall.

Only 150 people will be permitted to attend.

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