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11. Helfgott, David --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia helfgott, david (born 1947), Australian pianist. A child prodigy stricken bymental illness during his 20s, david helfgott later returned to the stage and http://www.britannica.com/ebi/article?tocId=9311648

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13. INKPOT#65 CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS: David Helfgott story of the child prodigy david helfgott, an Australian pianist whose earlymusical helfgott, perhaps the most famous living pianist in the world, http://inkpot.com/classical/helfgott98p.html

DAVID HELFGOTT David Helfgott Live in Singapore 16 November 1998, 8 pm The Ballroom, Tickets: $60, $80, $125, $150 from SISTIC by Rebecca Wan The first film I ever watched in a theatre was AMADEUS (Forman, 1984), and I came away from it firmly believing that that crazy nut Salieri killed Mozart by dressing in a mask and telling him to write his own requiem. Years later, when I watched SPARTACUS (Kubrick, 1960) for the first time, I didn't think there was any reason not to believe that the real slave Spartacus wasn't crucified at ..., nor that high-level Romans were oyster-stuffing debauches with British accents who used food metaphors to make sleazy overtures to their slaves. Many other such "autobiographical" films that sensationally distort history have caused historians distress, but what happens when films are about living legends? Several Oscar-nominated films down the line from AMADEUS, the controversy surrounding the 1996 film SHINE stirs up curious questions about the degree to which artistic license should be allowed to stray, and the effect of populism on the classical music world. SHINE, directed by Scott Hicks, tells the story of the child prodigy David Helfgott, an Australian pianist whose early musical success is derailed by the onslought of mental illness, apparently the result of parental pressure, and he is institutionalized for more than a decade. Things improve when Helfgott recovers and meets a wonderful woman who helps to heal him and later becomes his second wife. His career as a classical pianist is restored to full brilliance.

14. INKPOT MOVIE REVIEWS: SHINE This biographical portrayal of Australian piano prodigy david helfgott, david (Noah Taylor) is well groomed into a fine pianist, winning various http://inkpot.com/film/shine.html

SHINE Sherrie Lee Directed by: Scott Hicks Produced by: Fine Line Features / Momentum Films Cast: Armin Mueller-Stahl (Peter (David's father), Geoffrey Rush (David Helfgott), Noah Taylor (David Helfgott), Lynn Redgrave (Gillian Helfgott), Googie Withers (Katharine Susannah Prichard), Sonia Todd (Sylvia), Nicholas Bell (Ben Rosen), John Gielgud (Cecil Parkes) Runtime: Approx. 104 Minutes Rating: ***** out of ***** This biographical portrayal of Australian piano prodigy David Helfgott, side-tracks the clichéd tactics but opts for recurring images and phrases to express the inexpressible contained within the emotionally disturbed 40-year old. The film is told in a s eries of flashbacks, each transition emotive without the loss of the sense of the main character, David (Geoffrey Rush). While director Scott Hicks tells the tale in a restrained manner most of the time, the driving force of the film lies within Armin Mue ller-Stahl who plays David's father, Peter. We see in the 50s, Peter, the loving yet ever possessive father, obsessed with cultivating young David (Alex Rafalowicz) into a world class pianist. Although Peter lacks musical training, David's natural talent takes over and impresses one of the judges, Ben Rosen (Nicholas Bell) during a piano competition. After much persuasion, Peter allows Ben to coach his precious son, eager for David to master "the most difficult piece in the world", Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No. 3.

15. Denis Dutton On David Helfgott He was david helfgott, a wellknown local pianist. In 1984, still working in thewine bar, he even played the Rachmaninoff Second Concerto with the Nedlands http://www.denisdutton.com/helfgott.htm

Beethoven on Prozac Philosophy and Literature Denis Dutton www.denisdutton.com With the musical reputation of David Helfgott now in tatters, the question persists how an incompetent, mentally disordered pianist has found himself touring to sold-out halls, promoted in the expensive souvenir program as “one of the world’s leading pianists.”  Why don’t his champions snap out of the delusion that his recitals are supreme musical events?  Is it despite or because of the most scathing reviews dumped on any pianist in recent memory that Helfgott continues to get rapturous, standing ovations?  The Helfgott entourage, of course, has been asking for it. Their repeated descriptions of Helfgott as a “genius,” as “the ’90s version of Horowitz and Rubinstein,” in the words of an official of his recording company, have rubbed knowledgeable piano aficionados the wrong way. The excusing of his loud grunts and mutterings during performances by comparisons with the great Glenn Gould (who was normally silent in recitals) are merely offensive, as are comparisons with Horowitz’s neuroses or de Pachmann’s eccentric behavior: all of these artists were men whose technical and artistic accomplishments are beyond serious question. The controversy in the United States and Britain duplicates patterns established by Helfgott’s appearances in New Zealand, where he began his 1997 world tour. Perhaps his handlers were hoping for a gentle start, working up toward the concert halls and critics north of the equator. But even though people in this green and pleasant land are polite to a fault, Helfgott’s five recitals generated more acrimony and hurt feelings than any musical episode in years.

16. Review: Shine Based on the life story of Australian pianist david helfgott, director ScottHicks (Sebastian and the Sparrow) film touches on themes as diverse as the http://movie-reviews.colossus.net/movies/s/shine.html

Shine A Film Review by James Berardinelli Australia, 1996 U.S. Release Date: 11/22/96 (limited) Running Length: 1:45 MPAA Classification: PG-13 (Mature themes, brief nudity) Theatrical Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1 Cast: Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Noah Taylor, Lynn Redgrave, Googie Withers, John Gielgud, Sonia Todd, Alex Rafalowicz, Nicholas Bell Director: Scott Hicks Producer: Jane Scott Screenplay: Jan Sardi based on a story by Scott Hicks Cinematography: Geoffrey Simpson Music: David Hirschfelder; piano played by David Helfgott U.S. Distributor: Fine Line Features Shine is a deceptively simple title for an amazingly powerful motion picture. Based on the life story of Australian pianist David Helfgott, director Scott Hicks' ( Sebastian and the Sparrow ) film touches on themes as diverse as the nature of genius, the triumph over adversity, and the destructive power of love. And, while there are few obvious similarities between this film and My Left Foot , there is an undeniable kinship, if only in the way both portray the extreme courage of an individual. Long before its American theatrical debut

17. David Helfgott - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia david helfgott (born May 19, 1947) is an Australian pianist born in Melbourne david helfgott now lives in Happy Valley in New South Wales with his wife. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Helfgott

David Helfgott From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. David Helfgott David Helfgott (born May 19 ) is an Australian pianist, born in Melbourne to Polish-Jewish parents, whose life inspired Australian director Scott Hicks Oscar -winning film Shine . He is as well known for having schizoaffective disorder as for his piano playing. His other interests include cats chess philosophy tennis ... swimming and keeping fit in general. Helfgott became known as a child prodigy after his father started teaching him the piano when he was six. When he was ten years old he studied under Frank Arndt, a Perth piano teacher, and won several local competitions, sometimes alone and sometimes with his elder sister Margaret Helfgott. When David was fourteen, the Australian musical community, led by Perth journalist James Penberthy, and including writer Katharine Susannah Prichard , raised money to enable him to go to America. However, his father denied him permission, on the grounds that he was not ready for independence (and presumably the indications of mental illness). When he was nineteen, he won a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Music for three years, where he studied under Cyril Smith.

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19. Shine - The Story Of The Australian Pianist David Helfgott | Esme Shirt Film/play/etc review The story of the Australian pianist david helfgott. http://www.e-n.org.uk/1997-04/434-Shine.htm

Christian news worldwide Search archives Home Archives Subscriptions Adverts Find a church About us Contact us Site Map Shine The story of the Australian pianist David Helfgott Shine Cert. 12 Mention Rachmaninov's third piano concerto to a concert pianist and expect a gasp. 'Not the Rach 3!' It is the keyboard equivalent of reading Joyce's Ulysses or playing against the New Zealand All-Blacks - dangerous to attempt and downright inappropriate for the immature. I learned this from watching Shine. The concerto is central to the film which tells, largely in retrospect, the true story of Australian pianist David Helfgott. You see him as a little boy in the 1950s, clad in those itchy short trousers, playing Chopin in a church hall competition. But the dominant character in the film is his father, Helfgott senior, a Jew who lost his faith, his sisters and parents in the holocaust, and resolved to lose nothing else. He loves his children passionately, but fears so much the losing of them that his imprisons them as securely as he nails up the garden fence. The violence of his passion drives them all from him, and all but destroys his pride and joy, his brilliant son. Having defied his father in leaving Australia, David takes up a scholarship at the Royal College of Music in London. The pivotal recital of the Rach 3 in a competition, by the sweating and tormented young David triggers the massive mental breakdown for which the cinema audience has been waiting. For years in the Australian mental institution he is denied access to the ivories. The man who was robbed of a childhood becomes a child running and skipping about half-clad like a toddler, chattering and rhyming half-sense.

20. Raykoff Article Part 5, Volume 2 Issue 1 Spring 2000 purportedly the true story of pianist david helfgott’s early career, hisstruggle 3 (RCA Victor, 1997), with david helfgott, piano; Milan Horvat, http://www.echo.ucla.edu/Volume2-Issue1/raykoff/raykoff-article-part5.html

Shine (1996), purportedly the "true story" of pianist David Helfgott’s early career, his struggle against mental illness, and his redemption through the nurturing woman who "saves" him and eventually marries him. As a further narrative about confrontation with the patriarchal social order, Shine Thus Shine Shine is Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto in D minor, op. 30. Part of the film’s hype involved fetishizing the technical difficulty and musical challenge of this piece (witness popular press articles such as "Between the Rach III and a Hard Place: A Notoriously Brutal Concerto Stars in a New Film" ) in order for its practice and performance scenes to carry dramatic impact. "It’s a piece for elephants, elephantine!" David chatters. His piano teacher warns David’s demanding father, "Whatever you do, don’t you inflict bloody Rachmaninoff on him! He’s not ready!" The professor exhorts David to imagine the "monumental Rach 3" in terms of a confrontation between concerto agents: "Think of it as two separate melodies jousting for supremacy!" The concerto performance itself is presented as a dangerous interaction: "Performing is a risk, you know! No safety net!" his professor warns him. "Make no mistake, David—it’s dangerous. You will get hurt!"

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