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Barenboim hands over the baton

Barenboim hands over the baton

From a correspondent in Berlin:

Touching ceremony last night at the Staatsoper in Berlin when a very frail Daniel Barenboim received the title of Honorary Chief Conductor and ‘passed the baton’ to his successor, Christian Thielemann.

Involuntary comic relief came with the Senator for Culture, Joe Chialo, who thanked the orchestra for music by Schöneberg (a Berlin suburb). Not until the audience burst into laughter did he realize that he meant Schönberg (Austrian composer).

picture from 2023

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