Barenboim blasts young musician at Salzburg
NewsThe Salzburger Nachrichten reports Daniel Barenboim losing his temper with a horn player in the West-Eastern Diwan orchestra who stood up unbidden to take his applause.
The newspaper calls it ‘an unworthy spectacle’.
Daniel Barenboim turns his error white-hot. With a grand gesture, he indicates to the man to sit down. When the latter does not comply with the request, the conductor makes his way through the orchestra and gives a diatribe – in front of some 2000 spectators in the Great Festival Hall. Later he defiantly stays at the podium for what feels like an eternity until the audience rises to a standing ovation. An unworthy spectacle.
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