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The Piano Strings In the movie a young pianist named david helfgott wanted to perform Rachmaninoffs PianoConcerto No. 3 in D Minor. At first his mentor tried to dissuade http://www.thedream.com/the_piano_strings.htm
Extractions: In the movie a young pianist named David Helfgott wanted to perform Rachmaninoffs "Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor." At first his mentor tried to dissuade him. He said that no one so young would be mad enough to attempt to play the piece; it was too dangerous. David said he was mad enough to try. His teacher relented, but he told David that he would have to learn every single note as it was on the page. He would have to memorize it, he would have to play it blindfolded. And then he would have to forget them. He had to learn the notes, then forget them. That is when the music could be truly played. David practiced and practiced. His fingers became demons of speed and agility. His practice carved new routes of responsiveness in his brain. He was told to be bold. He attacked with single-minded focus. He learned the notes and the piano shook. He grew in his madness. One day, the piano strings broke under the boldness of his attack. The teacher said with a broad smile, Ah, now were getting somewhere. Then came the day of the performance. It was stunning. The music took over, the notes were forgotten. The fury and beauty of that playing could not be contained within the notes. David's playing had broken into freedom, where no technique, no structure, no progression, no notes, no memory can survive. There was neither note, nor piano, nor player. There was only music, the music of creation, of the holy instant.
SHINE david helfgott is an Australian child prodigy, a pianist, instilled with a lovefor music by his father, Peter. Peter, himself, has better memories of his http://www.catholicozvocations.org.au/movies/shine.html
Extractions: David Helfgott is an Australian child prodigy, a pianist, instilled with a love for music by his father, Peter. Peter, himself, has better memories of his own violin being smashed by his father. David is successful in eisteddfod competitions. However, he grows continually more nervy. When he finally wins a scholarship to study in the United States, his father persuades him to turn it down and stay at home. Institutionalised back in Australia, he spends many years without seeing his family. His father eventually comes to see him but walks out leaving David's gold medal on the table. When David is released, he plays the piano in restaurants. Sylvia, the manager befriends and takes him on a holiday. She also introduces him to her friend, the astrologist, Gillian. Eventually they marry. David plays a concert, is successful and goes on the performance circuit. He also visits his father's grave.
J. - Parents: Are We Pushing Our Children Over The Edge? david is Jewish piano virtuoso david helfgott, of Perth, Australia, whose troubled david, his father felt, was destined to become a worldclass pianist, http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/5581/edition_i
Extractions: David performs in piano competitions. Jessica tries to set flying records. JonBenet enters beauty contests. David is Jewish piano virtuoso David Helfgott, of Perth, Australia, whose troubled life is the subject of the film "Shine." Jessica is Jessica Dubroff, the precocious Pescadero 7-year-old who hoped to set a record last April by being the youngest pilot to make a cross-country flight in a single-engine plane. JonBenet Ramsey is the 6-year-old Colorado girl who collected a string of first prizes in child beauty pageants. Each of these youngsters had a special talent or attribute. Just as key, each had a parent or parents who nurtured, cultivated or pressured them to follow paths wholly inappropriate for their tender years. David is the son of a poor, proud and controlling father, a survivor of the Holocaust, who saw in his son the chance to live out a dream thwarted years earlier by his own father and the course of history. David, his father felt, was destined to become a world-class pianist, but only if he shut everything else out of his life, took first place in piano competitions, and followed slavishly the elder Helfgott's every cruel and mercurial wish.
Shine (1996) Plot Outline pianist david helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has abreakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117631/
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Extractions: The performance, Mr. Dyer continued, "was without phrasing, form, harmonic understanding, differentiation of style, and often basic accuracy; worst of all, it was without emotional content. ... The sad fact is that David Helfgott should not have been in Symphony Hall last night, and neither should the rest of us."
Shine We find out that his name is david helfgott (Geoffrey Rush). We see the riseof david as a pianist, such that he is offered a scholarship to the Royal http://www.michaeldvd.com.au/Reviews/Shine.asp
Extractions: Video Audio MPEG Widescreen Aspect Ratio N/A Dolby Digital 16x9 Enhancement N/A Soundtrack Languages English Theatrical Aspect Ratio Macrovision Yes Subtitles None Shine is the fictionalized story of the Australian pianist David Helfgott. The story begins as we see an apparently lost man finding his way into a cafe. It is clear that he is quite manic. We find out that his name is David Helfgott (Geoffrey Rush). We then cut back to his childhood, where we watch David perform in a music competition, watched by his father, Peter Helfgott (Armin Mueller-Stahl). He does not win this competition, and it quickly becomes apparent that David's father is a very hard and cruel man. We then fast forward to David as an adolescent (played by Noah Taylor). David wins the state musical championship and is invited to study in America. He is forbidden to go by his father. We see the rise of David as a pianist, such that he is offered a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London. Once again, his father forbids him to go, but this time David goes anyhow, causing his father to disown him.
MMI Review: Shine taken the reallife story of Australian child prodigy pianist david helfgott, Next we find the adult david helfgott in a mental institution where he http://www.shoestring.org/mmi_revs/shine.html
Extractions: (Air Date: Week Of 12/25/96) There's a lot to love about the Australian film "Shine". Director Scott Hicks has taken the real-life story of Australian child prodigy pianist David Helfgott, and mined it for its human interest and universal themes, capturing the essence of a complex and fascinating man, and creating a film that hits you in the ol' solar plexus. "Shine" is partly a study in what it's like to devote yourself singlemindedly to mastering what you love. That's what we see in the first two segments of the film, which show David Helfgott as a boy, then as an adolescent. The domineering shadow of David's father, an escapee from Nazi Germany, played by Armin Mueller-Stahl, hangs heavily over his son's life, especially during the childhood scenes in Australia. It's obvious that Helfgott, Senior, a frustrated musician himself, is deeply conflicted by his son's talent. He is fiercely proud of David, pushes him to compete, and vicariously lives his own dreams through young David's successes, but he's also jealous and possessive. The complexity of this parent/child relationship is a large part of the draw of this movie, showing how a burning love can be both life-giving, and destroying. The adolescent David, played by Noah Taylor, nervous and without confidence when away from the keyboard, wins a scholarship to the London Conservatory of Music. The chance of a lifetime but Helfgott Senior forbids him to go. When David announces he'll go any way, there's a harsh scene where his father says he'll never again be his son.
WITH TALENTED CAST, ``SHINE'' PRETTY MUCH LIVES UP TO ITS HYPE Based on the truelife traumas and triumphs of Australian pianist david helfgott, his performance as the adult david helfgott in ``Shine. Graphic http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1997/vp970201/01310047.htm
Extractions: SELDOM HAS any motion picture arrived with as much advance critical hoopla as ``Shine.'' Does it really shine that much? Can any film come up to these expectations? The questions finally can be answered after the long-delayed local opening - and most of them, delightfully, can be answered in the affirmative. ``Shine'' is a story of overcoming. ``Shine'' is a story of hope. Most of all, the almost miraculous success of this low-budget, independent little movie from Australia is due not as much to the film itself as it is to the fact that moviegoers are being starved elsewhere. This film is a throwback to the era when movies regularly stirred the emotions, a throwback to a less cynical age when movies regularly were sentimental without insulting the audience. If nothing else, the film has put Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto on the pop charts. (In Australia, sales have topped a million since the film's release.) Based on the true-life traumas and triumphs of Australian pianist David Helfgott, it is a story of survival. Helfgott was a child prodigy, driven by a domineering father. In an early scene, we see young David skipping down the sidewalk as a child might want to do - a poignant suggestion that real childhood was not to be for him. His father was a Polish immigrant, a man made bitter by the Holocaust whose own early musical aspirations were crushed. He is jealous of his young son's achievements and blocks opportunities for him to study in America. When David is accepted at London's Royal College of Music, he defies his father to take the chance. Consequently, he is shut off completely from the family.
Extractions: OAS_AD('Top'); document.write(secTimeStamp); SEARCH writeFeature(0); writeFeature(1); writeFeature(2); RESPOND TO EDITOR E-MAIL STORY PRINTER FRIENDLY FOXFAN CENTRAL Give Me a Name, I'm the Piano Man Tuesday, May 17, 2005 PHOTOS writeScroll(openTab1,'1'); ARCHIVE writeScroll(openTab2,'2'); He plays the piano beautifully, but no one knows who he is. British doctors have launched an international appeal to find the identity of a troubled young man who was found wandering in southeastern England last month. The tall, slim man, thought to be in his 20s or 30s, was discovered April 7 walking the beach on the Isle of Sheppey search ), Kent, dressed in a soaking wet suit and tie. All the labels had been removed from his clothing, a psychiatric official told the BBC. The "piano man" has not spoken a word since, and he appears terrified of strangers, but when given a pen and paper, he drew an incredibly detailed picture of a grand piano. Social worker Michael Camp took the silent man to a piano, where he immediately sat down and played orchestra-quality classical music for hours. He has continued to play in the weeks since. "Staff say it is a real pleasure to hear it," Ramanah Venkiah, director of the psychiatric unit at
Extractions: Helfgott Recital 3/4/97 I went to hear David Helfgott's recital at Symphony Hall in Boston this evening. The concert was sold out, but I lined up for returns and got in. This concert was the first in David's North American tour. The programme included Mendelssohn's Rondo Capriccioso in E minor, Chopin's Etude Op 10 No. 3, Chopin Ballade No 4 in F minor, Liszt's Etude "Un Sospiro", Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, and Beethoven's Waldstein Sonata. This is the first recital I have ever been to where the pianist runs on and off stage! He wore a white shirt and black trousers. I enjoyed the Mendelssohn. He has a good technique and this showed up especially in the Scherzo section. He brought out the melodies nicely. He sometimes sings, talks or moans as he plays, and this was fairly loud at times, even louder than the music! He also looks at the audience from time to time while he is playing (just as he did in the movie "Shine") to see if the audience is enjoying the music as much as he was! When he is not playing with his right hand he conducts himself. At one time during the Chopin Ballade, he took his hand off the keyboard and adjusted his shirt while the left hand kept on playing. He missed out the notes in the right hand while he did this.
Scott Hicks: Shine. Der Weg Ins Licht (Filmtipp) Translate this page Bücher von Dieter Wunderlich Einige Jahre später erhält david helfgott ein läuft david fort und wird in einer Bar in Perth als pianist neu entdeckt. http://www.dieterwunderlich.de/Hicks_shine.htm
Extractions: Peter Helfgott erzieht seinen Sohn David von klein auf mit tyrannischer Härte zum Klaviervirtuosen. Als Jugendlicher versucht sich David Helfgott von seinem Vater zu emanzipieren und studiert gegen dessen Willen bei Professor Cecil Parkes in London. Während des Konzerts bricht er zusammen ... Originaltitel: Shine - Regie: Scott Hicks - Buch: Jan Sardi und Scott Hicks, nach einer Biografie von Gillian Helfgott - Kamera: Geoffrey Simpson - Schnitt: Pip Karmel - Musik: David Hirschfelder - Darsteller: Alex Rafalowicz, Noah Taylor, Geoffrey Rush, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Sir John Gielgud, Lynn Redgrave u.a. - 1996; 105 Minuten
USA WEEKEND Magazine 2002 Adrien Brody learned to play Mozart for The pianist. 1996 PianotrainedGeoffrey Rush won for Shine as real-life pianist david helfgott. http://www.usaweekend.com/04_issues/041031/041031jamie_foxx.html
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CBC Arts: U.K. Campaign Seeks To Identify Mute Pianist has no physical health problems, they believe he has suffered some sort ofmental breakdown, leading many to draw comparisons to pianist david helfgott. http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2005/05/16/Arts/mutepianist050516.html
Extractions: @import url("/arts/includes/master.css"); @import url("/arts/includes/arts.css"); E-mail this story Printable Version S M L Last Updated Mon, 16 May 2005 14:03:04 EDT CBC Arts GILLINGHAM, U.K. - A campaign to identify a mysterious mute piano virtuoso who turned up in Kent more than a month ago is drawing a huge response. Officials say the U.K.'s National Missing Persons Helpline has been inundated with calls about the mysterious man, after his photo was published in the British press. A photo of the pianist (Courtesy U.K. National Missing Persons Helpline) Police discovered the man, soaking wet and dressed in an expensive black suit, walking aimlessly in southeastern Kent in early April. The slim, six-foot-tall man has short brown hair and is believed to be in his 20s or 30s. He was admitted to Medway Maritime Hospital in Gillingham. Because he was unable to speak, staff gave him a pen and paper hoping that he would write his name or otherwise communicate with them. Instead, he produced detailed drawings of a grand piano, including the interior. Staff then brought him to the hospital's chapel, where a piano is located, and he proceeded to play for two hours. He also drew a Swedish flag; however, hospital staff believe him to be a British citizen.
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AJN - Arts-02 david helfgott, the prodigy pianist who was made famous by the Academy But david helfgotts appearance has transformed the concert into what http://www.ajn.com.au/pages/current-paper/arts-02.html
The Telegraph - Calcutta : At Leisure The plight of the man has echoes in the story of Australian pianist david helfgott,who overcame a nervous breakdown to return to performing. http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050517/asp/atleisure/story_4749819.asp
Extractions: My Yahoo! SEARCH Archives Web ARCHIVES Since 1st March, 1999 THE TELEGRAPH About Us Advertise Feedback Contact Us ... At Leisure Puzzle of piano man DAVID SAPSTED London, May 16: The identity of a man found wandering on a beach in an evening suit and who will not talk but who expertly plays piano concertos for hours is baffling police. Despite the fact that he drew a Swedish flag, police believe he is probably English. He is believed to have suffered a mental breakdown. The plight of the man has echoes in the story of Australian pianist David Helfgott, who overcame a nervous breakdown to return to performing. His experience formed the basis of the 1996 film Shine starring Geoffrey Rush. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
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