March 2005

Ehud Barak

Sunday, March 06, 2005

Ehud Barak, former Israeli Prime Minister (and now running again), tells host Gilbert Kaplan why his favorite composers are Bach, Mahler and Beethoven. Another favorite, Frank Sinatra's “My Way," for reasons that don’t “need even an explanation.” An accomplished pianist who practiced Chopin before meeting Yasir Arafat, his intensive late night playing once caused a neighbor to send the police to the Prime Minister’s door.