Barenboim Apologizes (Sort Of) And Gets Prize

Daniel Barenboim will be awarded Israel’s Wolf Prize after all. “The education minister, Limor Livnat, had demanded that Mr. Barenboim apologize publicly for defying an unwritten Israeli ban on Wagner. Holocaust survivors still associate Wagner with the Nazis. In an interview on Tuesday with Israel Radio, Mr. Barenboim said he had no regrets about playing the work, but added, ‘If people were really hurt, of course I regret this, because I don’t want to harm anyone’.”