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Movie Reviews By Mark Leeper The man is eccentric to the point of being nearly autistic but is also a brilliantpianist. david helfgott is a man with many personal demons, some real and http://www.eclectica.org/v1n3n4/leeper6.html
Extractions: There are some minor spoilers in the plot description. SHINE is a true story, a biography of a sort of local celebrity in Australia. The man is eccentric to the point of being nearly autistic but is also a brilliant pianist. David Helfgott is a man with many personal demons, some real and some imagined, who was a musical prodigy but could not face the pressures that a musical career placed on him. The greatest of all the pressures came from his father, a man of huge rages who wanted to control David like he would control a puppet. What is interesting in the film is the affect that music has on David. As a boy music is a negative influence on him, dragging him down into the strange psychological state he eventually reaches. He is eventually even forbidden to play the piano for fear of the effect it will have on him. Yet the same music is also what pulls him out of that slump, returning some semblance of a life and even a career to him. Also remarkable is how people seem to keep finding David endearing. In spite of his many problems and the infinite patience that is required for dealing with him, the adult David seems to have the charm somehow to attract admirers and people who are willing to care for him. The adult David strikes one as having an intelligent, but uncontrolled mind. He talks as fast as his fingers move playing the Rachmaninoff Third Piano Concerto, but he jumps from idea to idea and drops each for the next.
Ae.soundbites That movie is called Shine. Its focus on the hardships facing the talented concertpianist, david helfgott, comes supported by soulful piano pieces which http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/DB/issues/97/01.13/ae.soundbites.html
Extractions: Brian Remick A- David Helfgott "David Helfgott plays Rachmaninov" (BMG) There is a movie playing in theaters across the country that will drain the tear ducts and leave the mind paralyzed. That movie is called "Shine." Its focus on the hardships facing the talented concert pianist, David Helfgott, comes supported by soulful piano pieces which help to create an emotional setting just tender enough to tear down the boundaries between film viewer and movie screen. Capturing this mood, Helfgott's recent release calms the body while enchanting the mind. Though not all of the Rachmaninov pieces make appearances in the film, they certainly echo its sense of tragedy and personal triumph. The music can be appreciated by those who haven't even seen or heard of the film. Starting with the swiftly uplifting "Piano Concerto No. 3, Op. 30, in D minor," and moving into "Four Preludes," a mass of twittering notes lighter than air, it becomes clear that Rachmaninov never gets boring. "Sonata No. 2 in B Flat Minor, Op. 36" provides a clear insight into the frailty of dancing fingers and what a life of such focus can lead to. Helfgott reveals that the vocation of concert pianist almost invariably will end in madness, as sounds this mystic must transfix one to a world unlike our own, and leaves one to question how other musicians of this caliber stay sane. Vanessa VanderZanden A Art of Noise "The Drum and Bass Collection" (Discovery) Classic songs like AON's collaboration with Tom Jones on Prince's "Kiss" have been transformed into uninteresting beats that lack any originality. Flyright's mix of "Peter Gunn," which is almost impossible to get wrong, doesn't even have the same tune. "The Drum and Bass Collection" doesn't go much beyond its title for the majority of the album. The original structure of songs like "Something Always Happens" and "Yebo" are all but gone. While the mixes on the album are decent, especially ILS's rendition of "Art of Love" and J. Majik's "Camilla," their similarities to the originals are so faint that they practically don't belong on the album.
MSN Entertainment - Movies: Shine Rush winning for Best Actor. Rush stars as david helfgott, a pianistwith a history of mental problems. As a fragile boy genius http://entertainment.msn.com/movies/movie.aspx?m=40679
Boxoffice Magazine [SHINE Film Review] The true triumphto-tragedy-to-triumph story of schizophrenic pianist david Helfgottis great passionate filmmaking about great passionate musicmaking. http://www.boxoff.com/scripts/fiw.dll?GetReview?&where=ID&terms=3088
ARTSZONE: Concerto #2 But the film Shine portraying the life of Australian pianist david Helfgottand his performance of the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. http://www.ovationtv.com/artszone/programs/concerto2/wild.html
Extractions: It's not often that piano concertos make the news. But the film Shine portraying the life of Australian pianist David Helfgott and his performance of the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 (Rach 3) have put classical music on the front pages. Here's RCA's presentation of biographical material about David Helfgott. Have you seen the film? Shine is uplifting, inspiring, and emotionally wrenching. It's not often that a character we so strongly identify with in a movie can walk right off the screen and into real life. ... Resolved: This mentally ill performer is being exploited by those around him who should know better. Music is the loser in this unseemly tug of war.
Shine could recover from that, but not many films offer viewers a protagonist like davidHelfgott. david is a reallife, award-winning Australian pianist who was http://www.rambles.net/shine.html
Extractions: Shine opens on a dark and stormy night. Not many films could recover from that, but not many films offer viewers a protagonist like David Helfgott. David is a real-life, award-winning Australian pianist who was driven mad either by his overbearing father or from playing Rachmaninoff. That's the one subject on which Shine is a bit vague. By the age of 13, David already had more potential than most teens have acne. Within a few years, he was winning scholarships to prestigious international schools like London's Royal Academy of Music. But there was a price to pay for those scholarships: he had to incur the wrath of his father. To say that David's father was overbearing is to say that the Grand Canyon is a pretty good-size hole. For years Helfgott the elder controlled David with words of love, when the only thing he loved was control. If there's a down side to The Lion King Shine has pegged it. Yes, men carry their fathers around inside of them. And yes, those internalized fathers often lead their sons, or drive them, to fulfill their destinies or self destruct. It took three bodies and five pairs of hands to play David Helfgott on the screen: Alex Rafalowicz played David as a child, Noah
David Helfgott Orchestra. Welsman inherited his musical talent, but this singer/pianisthas a lush, smooth style that's uniquely contemporary. http://www.in-scribe.com/portfoliopages/mochadiva.html
Extractions: Twenty years after moving to Canada from Brooklyn, Ranee Lee is one of Montreal's most popular jazz singers. Sometimes sultry, sometimes gutsy, her rich vocals are tinged with more than a hint of blues. On Dark Divas, the soundtrack to her one-woman show, Lee pays tribute to seven different jazz icons.
Shine (1996) A crosssection of reviews from the country's top critics, crystallized in a metascore.Category Arts Movies Titles S Shine Inspired by the troubled but ultimately triumphant life of classical pianist Davidhelfgott, Shine focuses on helfgott's painful retreat into a private world http://www.metacritic.com/video/titles/shine
Extractions: Inspired by the troubled but ultimately triumphant life of classical pianist David Helfgott, Shine focuses on Helfgott's painful retreat into a private world while still in his early 20's and on the brink of a glittering international career. Spanning the 1950's to the 1980's, Shine dramatizes the deeply moving way in which Helfgott, after a decade of obscurity, achieves both personal and professional fulfillment through the love and support of a remarkable woman. (Fine Line Features)
Equipment And Instruments/Keyboard/Piano/Pianists Adami, Mirsa (1975) Albanian pianist, living in Amsterdam; includesbrief biography, concert schedule and mp3 files. Aleksander http://iomusic.com/Equipment_and_Instruments/Keyboard/Piano/Pianists/music_music
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.
Raykoff Article Part 5, Volume 2 Issue 1 Spring 2000 A recent example is Shine 115 (1996), purportedly the true story of pianist DavidHelfgotts early career, his struggle against mental illness, and his http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/echo/Volume2-Issue1/raykoff/raykoff-article-part5.htm
Extractions: Shine is Rachmaninoffs Third Piano Concerto in D minor, op. 30. Part of the films 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. "Its a piece for elephants, elephantine!" David chatters. His piano teacher warns Davids demanding father, "Whatever you do, dont you inflict bloody Rachmaninoff on him! Hes 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, Davidits dangerous. You will get hurt!"
Helfgott Shines In Horsham » ABC Western Victoria » The Backyard More than 850 people came from across Western Victoria to hear a performance by pianistDavid helfgott The crowds flocked to Horsham Town Hall as the man whose http://www.abc.net.au/westernvic/stories/s575329.htm
Extractions: The Backyard Indexes: Stories Recipes Reviews Audio ... Story Index Reporter: Leon Compton Thursday, 6 June 2002 David Helfgott shows what he is made of during a media conference on Sunday. Photo courtesy of Peter Miller, The Weekly Advertiser More than 850 people came from across Western Victoria to hear a performance by pianist, David Helfgott. Date published: 6/6/2002 Email this page For a printer-friendly version of this page use this link ACT New South Wales Northern Territory Queensland ... Western Australia Adelaide SA Brisbane Qld Broken Hill NSW Canberra ACT Central Australia NT Central Qld Central Vic Central West NSW Darwin NT Far North Qld Gippsland Vic Goldfields WA Goulburn Murray Hobart Tas Illawarra NSW Kimberley WA Melbourne Vic Mid North Coast NSW Midwest WA Mildura Swan Hill New England NSW Newcastle NSW North West Qld North Coast NSW
MMI Review: Shine Director Scott Hicks has taken the reallife story of Australian child prodigy pianistDavid helfgott, and mined it for its human interest and universal themes 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.