West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Led By Daniel Barenboim To Be Webcast On Medici.tv

Carnegie Hall today announced that the upcoming performance by the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra led by Music Director Daniel Barenboim on Thursday, November 8 at 8:00 p.m. in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage, will be webcast live, free of charge, to a worldwide audience on medici.tv and carnegiehall.org/medici.

The evening's program includes Richard Strauss's Don Quixote-with violist Miriam Manasherov and cellist Kian Soltani stepping forward from the orchestra as soloists-as well as Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5.

The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, which Mr. Barenboim co-founded with his late friend, the Palestinian literary scholar Edward W. Said, is comprised of young musicians from Israel, Palestine, and other Arab countries. Maestro Barenboim and Professor Said created the original West-Eastern Divan Orchestra workshop in 1999 with the aim of fostering intercultural exchange between Israelis and Arabs and creating an opportunity for them to work together on a matter of common interest: music making at the highest level. The founders named the orchestra and workshop after German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's collection of poems entitled West-Eastern Divan, which they considered to be a central work for the evolution of the concept of world culture.

Over the years, the Divan has matured into a world-class ensemble, performing at leading international concert halls and music festivals and releasing a number of critically-acclaimed recordings. The orchestra made its New York debut at Carnegie Hall in 2006 and returned with Maestro Barenboim in 2013 for a complete Beethoven symphony cycle. This 2018 concert is part of a US tour with additional performances in Chicago, Washington DC, Berkeley, and Los Angeles.

In addition to the medici.tv webcast, this November 8 performance-Carnegie Hall's Annual Isaac Stern Memorial Concert-will be broadcast live on WQXR 105.9 FM in New York as part of Carnegie Hall Live's radio broadcast and digital series, and also heard by listeners worldwide via wqxr.org and carnegiehall.org/wqxr. Produced by WQXR and Carnegie Hall and co-hosted by WQXR's Jeff Spurgeon and Clemency Burton-Hill, select Carnegie Hall Live broadcasts featured throughout the season include special digital access to the broadcast team from backstage and in the control room, connecting national and international fans to the music and to each other.

About medici.tv
Heralded by The New York Times as "the closest thing to a classical Netflix," medici.tv brings live classical music to passionate audiences worldwide. Since its founding in 2008, it has captured the leading classical artists, ensembles and orchestras' concerts from the world's great concert halls, festivals and competitions. As the largest online platform for classical music, it offers over 100 live performances throughout the year and a vast catalogue of 3,000 works of classical music, concerts, operas, documentaries, master classes, behind-the-scenes views and artist interviews all streamed in high quality. medici.tv is available on all devices - desktop, smart phone, tablet, and TV via Airplay and Chromecast. This performance marks the fifth season medici.tv has partnered with Carnegie Hall.

About Carnegie Hall
Since 1891, Carnegie Hall has set the international standard for excellence in performance. Its walls have echoed with applause for the world's outstanding classical music artists as they have for the greatest popular musicians and many prominent dancers, authors, comedians, social crusaders, and world figures who have appeared on its stages.

Carnegie Hall presents a wide range of performances each season on its three stages-the renowned Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage, intimate Weill Recital Hall, and innovative Zankel Hall-including concert series curated by acclaimed artists and composers; citywide arts festivals featuring collaborations with leading New York City cultural institutions; orchestral performances, chamber music, new music concerts, and recitals; and the best in jazz, world, and popular music. Complementing these performance activities, Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute creates extensive music education and social impact programs that annually serve more than 500,000 people in the New York City area, nationally, and internationally, playing a central role in Carnegie Hall's commitment to making great music accessible to as many people as possible. For more information, visit carnegiehall.org.