Well, after years of avoiding YouTube, I need to now thank them for many things in addition to needed comic relief. But my gratitude is that YouTube has once again, allowed me to fall in love with one I loved so long ago....Itzhak Perlman. but alas, I cannot decide: perhaps Aaron Rosand deserved more attention??
Anyone else ready for a virtual/audio love affair with 'someone' from your artistic past?
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hello and yes, you're quite correct, my soulmate is truly Itzhak. I have vowed to never, ever marry again yet if Itzhak asked me tonight, I would run to the ends of the world with that man, as long as he brings his violin....always a caveat, always a caveat! I adore Rosand as well. He plays the Ravel Tzigane like no one else. Sigh....for the days of un-airbrushed recordings. THAT was true music!
As for the Schindler's List recording, i must confess, I cannot listen to that piece more than once every 6 months. I break into an uncontrolled period of sobbing and depression since the melody and beauty of the piece evokes such a powerful set of images in my head. My eldest child and I did a slide show about the Holocaust victims back in 2002 and set it to the powerful playing of Perlman and his violin simply weeping for all those who suffered so deeply. Neither of us can listen to that piece without turning away prior to the end, our eyes blinded by the unstoppable flow of our tears. If i can dig up the slide show, accompanied by none other than your EXACT recording of Perlman and Williams, I will send it to you. We found, with horror, depictions of the most soulbreaking images of men, women, children, and infants, all having been at the mercy of Hitler's demonic quest. But yes Dr. G, you are quite right, Schindler's List is one of the most powerful melodies that will ever evoke and resonate with pure clarity, the pain within any human's heart.
CC
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So true, CC. Having lost all of the relatives on my mother's side, other than her mother, her grandmother and her aunt, in the Holocaust, that music is also haunting for me as well.
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My father met Perlman down by Queen's Quay one summer afternoon many years ago, both were just taking in the sights. Apparently an extremely nice man.
OMG, HowEver, CC is going to get jealous of your father's meeting with Perlman! I bet you that she's going to go online to pepper you for more details.
I own a DVD copy of Schindler's List and have only watched it twice. It's an extremely soul wrenching movie to watch and the accompaniments of Perlman's which added additional despair to the movie were excellent. I have sobbed through many parts of the movie and that's why I have only watched it twice.
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I own a DVD copy of Schindler's List and have only watched it twice. It's an extremely soul wrenching movie to watch and the accompaniments of Perlman's which added additional despair to the movie were excellent. I have sobbed through many parts of the movie and that's why I have only watched it twice.
Did you not find "The Pianist" to be a far superior film? Szpilman's auto-bio, on which it is based, is even better; brutally, brutally honest. I recommend anyone interested in the subject pick it up.
Did you not find "The Pianist" to be a far superior film? Szpilman's auto-bio, on which it is based, is even better; brutally, brutally honest. I recommend anyone interested in the subject pick it up.
Hi chasMac
I did pick up a copy of "The Pianist" and unfortunately it wasn't close captioned so I wasn't able to follow it and thus stopped watching it. Perhaps there is a re-issue of it and I will certainly check it out. Since in your opinion it's more brutally honest, I will have to ensure that I have an extra box of tissue nearby!
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My father met Perlman down by Queen's Quay one summer afternoon many years ago, both were just taking in the sights. Apparently an extremely nice man.
ZOWEE WOWEE HE!! I would give almost anything to meet Perlman and have a chat-hopefully turning it into many, many chats!! He is unassuming, genuine, humble, and quite simply put - one of my heroes. I have even listed him as such in my Profile. I'm not generally given to Hero Worship but there are times....The fact that Perlman not only overcame the horrors of a holocaust but the pain of polio, to emerge as one of the world's greatest musicians is simply put: superhuman.
As for The Pianist, yes, that movie was also extremely gutwrenching. I don't think it's the movies themselves chasMac, it's the melody associated with the movies and the images they evoke. But yes, it too, was powerful and soulbreaking. Those types of movies, are truly what movies were destined to do: TELL A POWERFUL STORY.
Incidentally, every time i see 'Shine' and hear the Rach 3, I tear up as well. I guess that simply put, music truly touches all in every way, evoking the most emotional responses from the human psyche.
CC
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