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Extractions: On my extensive list of sightseeing I had a visit of the well-known Sydney Opera House. At those days there was on its schedule a concert by the Australian pianist David Helfgott being already in the age of the fifties but it should be his first performance in this house. Large posters made propaganda for this concert and I wanted to be among the listeners. A day in advance of the concert date I walked through the harbour area admiring all the buildingsand arrangements there and having only one aim to be ontime at the booking office.But what a disappointment!All the tickets were already out. I did not want to believe that not even one ticket out of a capacity of more than 2.650 in total should be left for me. However, sometimes wonders will never cease.Long before the start of the concert I besieged the box office and my patience was rewarded: I got a ticket for the standing room. The concert hall filled up bit by bit. When all seats were occupied it became very quiet in the large hall like during a church service.A few minutes later a medium-size man wearing a Russian-style smock-frock appeared on the stage. The spectators welcomed him by a short shout with joy and suddenly the concert began. What now followed was a team-work between the artist and the audience. Each performance of the pianist was answered by the spectators with a thunder of applause. At the end of the concert the general rejoicing changed to a merrymaking, which I experienced in sports stadiums only. The spectators shouted, whistled, threw colourful strings at the grand piano on the stage and started even fire-crackers. This ceremony lasted about a quarter of an hour. Deeplymoved I left together with more than 2650 spectators the Opera House.
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David Helfgott: david helfgott A pianist should play the piano. I ll keep going. GILLIAN helfgottHe s got many, many more years. david helfgott I ll keep on going http://www.abc.net.au/gnt/profiles/Transcripts/s1059450.htm
Extractions: DAVID HELFGOTT: We had no money for food and no roof over our head, just a warehouse. What a memory! And yet, Dad went and spent his last savings on a piano. And what about... how's that for priorities? I thought how my father must have loved me if he wanted me to play the piano. But that was a different time.
Denis Dutton - Please Shoot The Piano Player! The Debate Over Symposium. Please Shoot The Piano Player! The david helfgott Debate I wassurprised to learn that the pianist who maintained a muffled, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/philosophy_and_literature/v021/21.2dutton01.html
Peter Feuchtwanger - The David Helfgott Saga - Philosophy And The Australian pianist s playing profoundly touched Cherkassky s innermost feelings What is it then that david helfgott possesses that so eludes many an http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/philosophy_and_literature/v021/21.2feuchtwanger.htm
Extractions: BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD DO AMERICA SHINE "Shine" is the incredible story of Australian pianist David Helfgott, a man pushed by his father and his love of music to excel, then held back by that same man when his success results in scholarships to study in America, then London's Royal Academy of Music. Armin Mueller-Stahl is the Holocaust-scarred Peter Helfgott whose pain at having seen his family destroyed causes him to react with abusive behavior when his own son wishes to leave the family nest. David is played from his teen years until his breakdown in his twenties by Noah Taylor ("Flirting") and in his forties, when he's saved by the love of Gillian (Lynn Redgrave) by Geoffrey Rush. LAURA: "Shine" is the best feature film I've seen so far this year (although I'm still totally enamored of the documentary "Paradise Lost" in my number 1 slot). Scott Hicks, an Australian director more known for his documenaries, has done a masterful job presenting Jan Sardi's screenplay about the life of a tortured pianist to the screen. He's assembled his film as a three movement concerto, first taking his time to establish the very young David Helfgott and David's family background, then going into overdrive as David Helfgott as a young man suffers through the conflict of how his success and the pursuit of his dreams tears him away from his family and finally slowing the pace again as the older David is brought back into real life from an institution by the love of several women.
A Shining Moment but ultimately triumphant life of classical pianist david helfgott. Gillian helfgott david loved the film and has seen it six times it now http://members.aol.com/palacechat/helfgotts.html
Extractions: The award winning film, Shine, was inspired by the troubled but ultimately triumphant life of classical pianist David Helfgott. From a child prodigy, through years of hardship including a severe breakdown,...the film dramatized the deeply moving way in which Helfgott achieved both personal and professional fulfillment through the love and support of his remarkable wife, Gillian. Filmmaker, Scott Hicks, has said: "This was a story about a winner, ... an unlikely hero who achieves the one thing we all desire... he find his own place in the world, and someone with whom to share life, love and music...It's about being able to survive experiences that none of us would want and to come out on the other side..." David is back and larger than life! With his wife Gillian he is sharing his experiences with the whole world. Welcome to The Palace! We are truly
Meet David And Gillian Helfgott david helfgott is a unique Australian and a brilliant concert pianist with afascinating life story as portrayed in theOscar nominated multiaward winning http://members.aol.com/palacechat/helfgott.html
Extractions: on the Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon! Be sure to tune in! From a child prodigy, through years of hardship including a severe breakdown, David is back and larger than life. With his wife Gillian he is sharing his experiences with the whole world. He communicates, shares and expresses his joy of life through his passionate playing on the piano. Each concert is an event not to be missed. David is fascinating both as an artist and as a man. In her book Love You to Bits and Pieces: Life With David Helfgott Gillian shares with us a fuller account of his life and struggles to return to playing the paino and living a 'normal' life. This is a love story not to be missed.
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Extractions: Other News TIME Asia TIME.com CNN Asia FORTUNE.com ... AOL.com By Peter Hutchings / Sydney A PIANO PLAYER, A nervous breakdown and a middle-age career comeback not exactly the usual plot elements of a box-office hit in Australia or anywhere else for that matter. Indeed, Shine, based on the life of troubled Australian piano prodigy David Helfgott, boasts not so much as a B-list Hollywood star (see following review). But the $4.6-million feature, now opening throughout Asia, has already inspired audiences on three continents, even prompting director Steven Spielberg to comment: "This is a film I wish I'd made myself." Since its debut at 1996's Sundance Film Festival, Shine has won nine Australian Film Institute awards. Last week, it was honored with seven Oscar nominations, including best film, best director for Scott Hicks and best actor for Geoffrey Rush.
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Extractions: May 28, 1986. Page 3, Adelaide Advertiser By SAMELA HARRIS Meeting pianist David Helfgott is like tumbling out of everyday life into a softly eccentric wonderland of sounds. But David, 38, is a world unto himself and his tale is one of genius, tragedy and triumph. The extraordinary WA musician has recently returned to the concert platform after a decade of psychiatric treatment and musical obscurity, shepherded by a woman's love. He is in Adelaide to give a recital at Edmund Wright House tonight. Peering myopically through milk-bottle-bottom lenses, he proffered a warm, long-fingered hand and his murmurous voice began a strange rhythmic exploration of the sound of new names: "Sssam-sam-samela-sam..." Then, as if magnetically drawn to the piano, he sat at the sleek Steinway, caressed its keys and filled the ornate old room with the intricate sounds of Liszt's La Campella while transforming his name-refrain into friendly serenade. Rocking on the piano stool, sometimes bowing his head to the keys, singing, sighing and occasionally asking for a cigarette yet never interrupting the fluidity of his music he resembled no other concert pianist. As the musical prodigy son of impoverished Polish migrants, David Helfgott was, at 12, the youngest to enter the ABC's annual WA State concerto and vocal competitions, which he went on to win six times.
The Books: Out Of Tune By Margaret Helfgott And Tom Gross Academy Awardwinning film Shine made pianist david helfgott a household name . Now for the first time, Margaret, david helfgott s eldest sister, http://www.twbookmark.com/books/17/0446523836/
Extractions: he globally acclaimed, Academy Award-winning film Shine made pianist David Helfgott a household name. While purporting to be a true story, the movie is actually full of fabrications. Now for the first time, Margaret, David Helfgott's eldest sister, who knows him better than anyone from their early years, sets the record straight. Dispelling the many untruths propagated by the movie, Margaret tells the real story of her extraordinary brother, of a life, a career, and a legacy that will remain forever.. .Out Of Tune Shine was made without any significant participation from family members other than David and his wife, Gillian. Its portrayal of a repressed young piano prodigy brutalized by a violent, obsessive father is a graphic, lasting image, but one that isn't true. Gillian (who never even met David's father, Peter) wrote a bestselling book, Love You to Bits and Pieces , that reinforced the distortions.
Authors: Margaret Helfgott argaret helfgott, sister to david, is also a professional pianist, and teachespiano at a music conservatory. She lives in Israel. Out of Tune (Hardcover) http://www.twbookmark.com/authors/54/846/
Metroactive Movies | Shine Shoot the Piano Playing pianist david helfgott (Geoffrey Rush) attacks the keyswith About david helfgott, the reallife pianist the movie is based on. http://www.metroactive.com/papers/metro/12.26.96/shine-9652.html
Extractions: Mark Tillie Shoot the Piano Playing: Pianist David Helfgott (Geoffrey Rush) attacks the keys with shattering intensity in "Shine." 'Shine' tracks the roller-coaster career of troubled Australian pianist David Helfgott By Richard von Busack F OR SHEER TECHNIQUE, Shine will be so highly praised that people will be blinded to its occasional slickness. Even some of the most blatant scenes are effective. A good example is the depiction of a piano recital in the same visual terms as one of the fights in Raging Bull . The borrowing from Scorsese comes complete with the slow-motion halo of sweat and the hero's fall to the canvasexcuse me, to the floor of the recital hall. Years later, the undone pianist, David Helfgott (Geoffrey Rush), is raving away in the mental hospital, talking almost incoherently to a visiting woman playing "Bicycle Built for Two" on the spinet in the day room. When Helfgott tells her his name, the music abruptly stops, just like the saloon piano used to when the gunslinger walked through the swinging doors. Shine Online: The Fine Line Features Shine web page.
MetroActive Movies | Talking Pictures Black and White Shine depicts pianist david helfgott s keys to sanity.pianist Jeffrey Kahane shines. Writer david Templeton takes interesting people to http://www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/01.16.97/talk-pix-9703.html
Extractions: Black and White: 'Shine' depicts pianist David Helfgott's keys to sanity. Pianist Jeffrey Kahane shines Writer David Templeton takes interesting people to interesting movies in his ongoing quest for the ultimate post-film conversation. This time out, he meets up with esteemed pianist/conductor Jeffrey Kahane of the Santa Rosa Symphony to discuss the musically savvy, critically acclaimed film Shine RENOWNED MUSICIAN Jeffrey Kahane is a man so desperately busy that he has not been out to a movie theater in days, weeks, months. Furthermore, I am politely informed, he probably won't make it to a movie anytime soon. Though intrigued by my offer to see the brilliant new film Shine the story of Australian pianist David Helfgott and his roller-coaster relationship with sanity and Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concertoand admittedly eager to see it, Kahane has expressed concerns that he would not be able to find the spare time to go off to a show. Fortunately, a conveniently released videocassette of the film (intended for homebound Oscar voters;
Extractions: Evita stars Madonna as the charismatic and ambitious Eva Perón crying out to the people of Argentina, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice. SHINE (A-3, PG-13): Compassion for disabled or afflicted people has become a major characteristic of important movies. Shine , an Australian film that swept almost every conceivable award in its homeland, is the latest to emulate such films as My Left Foot and Rain Man Piano Concerto No. 3 Based on the true story of pianist David Helfgott, this Scott Hicks-directed movie is about the havoc caused by an ambitious parent, a father who loves too much. (This classic character is especially familiar in today's competitive mass-media world of big-time sports and performing arts.) The father (played with low-key intensity and insight by Armin Mueller-Stahl) is the ultimate stage parent. But it's not greed that motivates him. He's possessive. As an immigrant who is scarred by his own childhood and Holocaust trauma, he's afflicted by his wariness and distrust of the world. When teenager David breaks away to accept a scholarship in London, his father disowns him. David suffers a breakdown (a terrific sequence) almost at the exact moment when all his hard work and training are about to pay off in musical competition.
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Extractions: For more film reviews by Alan Stone, click here or choose from a list of A high-culture docudrama presents a profoundly misleading portrait of mental disorder. Shine , the Australian film about the life of pianist David Helfgott, was an unexpected success at the box office, garnered an Oscar nomination as best picture, and earned Geoffrey Rush the prize for best actor. Though Rush, an accomplished Australian stage actor, had almost no previous experience in film, he was surrounded by film veterans. Armin Mueller-Stahl, who played Peter Helfgott (David's father), earned an Oscar nomination for best supporting actor. An extraordinary film actor/political activist/intellectual, Mueller-Stahl may be remembered as the farmer in Agnieszka Holland's first major film, Angry Harvest . John Geilgud and Lynne Redgrave, too, have important roles in the film and add their pedigree and polish to the effort.
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Extractions: S hine is the true, touching story of David Helfgott, a young piano prodigy growing up in Australia shortly after World War II. In the opening scene we see the adult David as the sort of person we tend to avoid on the streets a strange, confused outcast. He is rain-drenched, unkempt, and muttering crazily a continuous stream of chatter. He wanders into a restaurant, lost and alone, and the kindly proprietor delivers him back to the dingy room where he lives. From this sad opening, we see the life of David Helfgott in flashback. At the age of nine, David played in his first piano competition, performing Chopin's "Polonaise." The young boy has been blessed with an extraordinary talent, but cursed with a father who is an autocratic tyrant a man who demands perfection from his son, as well as absolute loyalty and obedience. When David, in his early teens, becomes the youngest pianist ever to win a national piano competition, he is offered the opportunity to go to America to study music, but his father refuses to allow him to leave the confining boundaries of his own dictatorial rule. So David must meet the merciless requirements of his father: "You must always win," his father demands, and yet, he is not permitted to pursue his musical career beyond the borders of his village.
