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The Barenboim–Said Academy ((ドイツ語:Barenboim-Said Akademie), (アラビア語:أكاديمية بارنبويم-سعيد), ) is an academy for music and the humanities located in Berlin, Germany. It will eventually train up to 90 young musicians from the Middle East and Europe in the spirit of the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra. It will open its doors in late 2016. Inspired by its eponymous co-founders, the conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim and the literary theorist and intellectual Edward Said, the academy will offer an integrated curriculum in music and the humanities. Through their joint education and music-making, students will be given the cognitive competence and critical understanding to become exemplary artists and contribute to the future of civil societies in their countries of origin.〔Michael Naumann, ed. ”Barenboim–Said Academy” Information Brochure. Berlin: Barenboim-Said Akademie gGmbH, 2013.〕 ==History and aims == After a chance meeting between Daniel Barenboim and Edward Said in a London hotel lobby in 1992, an intellectual exchange about music, literature, society and the Middle Eastern conflict as well as a deep personal friendship ensued until Edward Said's untimely death in 2003. The spirit of this extraordinary relationship was captured in their joint publication ''Parallels and Paradoxes''. This exchange gave rise to the idea of creating an orchestra in which musicians from Israel, Palestine, the Middle East and North Africa would play music together – harmonize in music – and thus create a foundation for discussion with the possibility of mutual understanding. Barenboim has spoken of the ensemble as follows: "The Divan is not a love story, and it is not a peace story. It has very flatteringly been described as a project for peace. It isn't. It's not going to bring peace, whether you play well or not so well. The Divan was conceived as a project against ignorance. A project against the fact that it is absolutely essential for people to get to know the other, to understand what the other thinks and feels, without necessarily agreeing with it. I'm not trying to convert the Arab members of the Divan to the Israeli point of view, and () not trying to convince the Israelis of the Arab point of view. The orchestra was co-founded in Weimar, Germany, by Said and Barenboim in 1999, and named after the ''West-östlicher Divan'' ("West–Eastern Divan"), an anthology of poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who took his inspiration from the Persian poet Hafis. The first ensemble workshop took place in 1999, as part of Weimar's program as the European Capital of Culture that year. Since Edward Said's death, his widow Mariam C. Said has been a co-leader of the orchestra. Whilst the Middle East conflict continued, the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra developed into an international success story, with performances from Tokyo to Ramallah, from Berlin to Seville and Abu Dhabi, from New York to Buenos Aires and Rabat. The Barenboim–Said Academy will build on the principles and practices laid out in the work of the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra and transfer them into an academic setting. The Academy's joint music-humanities curriculum with its interdependent schools of ''listening'' and ''hearing'' draws once more on the concepts of Edward Said and Daniel Barenboim: "Separation between peoples is not a solution for any of the problems that divide peoples. And certainly ignorance of the other provides no help whatever. Cooperation and coexistence of the kind that music lived as we have lived, performed, shared and loved it together, might be." Barenboim emphasized the significance of "looking for the solution in oneself", when the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra performed Beethoven's 9th Symphony at the 2012 BBC Proms .〔“Beethoven's 9th." Daniel Barenboim and the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra at the BBC Proms, 2012 ()〕 Graduates will not only be trained to become musicians but educators, community leaders, artists and above all responsible citizens within their communities. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barenboim–Said Academy」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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