Daniel Barenboim opens Berlin music academy for Middle East students

Musician and conductor says school, which will take in 90 new talents from the region each year, is ‘attempt at creating peace through music’Daniel Barenboim has called it an “experiment in utopia”, a project that marks the culmination of the leading musician and conductor’s life’s work in bringing together musicians from the Middle East. The Barenboim-Said Academy, which opened on Thursday evening in Berlin, will offer 90 talented students from the Middle Eas