As Daniel Barenboim’s Arab-Israeli orchestra celebrates its 25th anniversary, Clemency Burton-Hill travels to Berlin for a rare interview with him. Read more.

Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony was first performed exactly 200 years ago Tuesday and has since become probably the work most likely to be embraced for political purposes. Read more.

In our orchestra, Israelis and Palestinians found common ground. Our hearts are broken by this conflict. We are all shocked by this terrible violence, but we won’t forget our shared humanity – or surrender our hopes for peace. Read more.

Madam Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am very grateful to accept the Konrad Adenauer Prize today. In 1953, when Konrad Adenauer had been the first post-war Chancellor of post-war Germany for only four years, the great conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler invited me – then eleven years old – to Berlin. At the time, my father refused this invitation: the end of the war and thus the Nazi regime’s terror had not even been over for ten…