Posted on 01/13/2008 11:18:54 AM PST by Alouette
“Remember, he had to watch his wife, cellist Jacqueline DuPre slowly die from Multiple Sclerosis. I think that can make you crazy.”
Actually, as her disease progressed, he dumped her and married another woman.
Musical talent need not be linked with moral judgment or political insight.... if he likes the dungheap that is Palistan so much he can go live there and see what it’s really like. Here he is helping the propaganda campaigns of the terrorists who slaughter so many innocents. What a travesty.
Frankly I have no idea how you can turn your back on your own people and thumb your nose at them as if they are all wrong and that the poor pali's are so mistreated. A tool of peace?
I think not!
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There is a certain Israeli tradition here. A former conductor of an Israeli symphony was if my memory serves me correctly, a member of a wartime ghetto police force.
He dumped her at the very beginning of the disease -- not when she was anywhere near her deathbed. And that was only after he had cheated on Barenboim with her brother-in-law.
“Remember, he had to watch his wife, cellist Jacqueline DuPre slowly die from Multiple Sclerosis. I think that can make you crazy.”
And while he was “watching his wife slowly die from Multiple Sclerosis” he was carrying on an affair with another woman and having 2 children with her.
He’s quite loyal all around I guess.
Who are these people (or in more simple terms, WTF! )that feel the need to commit cultural suicide and march willingly into the doors of Islamofascist barbarians and murderous thugs?
Always trying to prove that you’re a “liberal” comes first with these people. They’d rather die than not be considered “tolerant”.
Good luck turncoat Barenboim.
Yes, but he had two sons with another woman before she died. ‘Thinks he kept it secret from DuPre though. And at least he married his concubine once DuPre was cold.
Reading the threads below (above?) about his private life makes we want to go rent the film HILLARY & JACKIE.
btt
He always was a jerk.
After all, the highly-cultured Pallies can afford the lofty prices commanded by his concerts and for his albums, while most ill-bred, lumpkin Israelis have trouble paying to see and hear him.
Not only is he a talented conductor, Barrenbrain is also touted as a savvy businessman.
Leni
Sarcasm right?
Leni
Remember what we learned about Leonard Bernstein from Tom Wolfe’s book ‘Radical Chic’.
Exactly right. As to him, the phrase “yemach shemoe” comes to mind..
IT’S ALL IN THE TITLE-—The 60s saw an explosion among people you’d think would know better of giving in to the irresistible urge of proving their hipness by doing things like hosting cocktail parties with people like the Black Panthers as honored guests, which is what Bernstein did. More recently Bill Clinton invited the Crips and the Bloods to the WHouse during his first term. VERY hip bid to gain ‘street cred.’ But by now this whole thing is so well integrated into the way the Media/Political/Celebrity culture do business that we find ourselves having to listen to the criminal Al Sharpton expound on his “community” as if he’s some kind of ‘leader’ rather than scam artist/hustler/
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