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Australian Musicians ~ AMUSIClassical Directory helfgott, david ( ) pianist; Henderson, Moya (b. 1947); Hill, Alfred (Melbourne,16 NOV 1870 - Sydney, 30 OCT 1960)conductor, composer, and pedagogue. http://members.tripod.com/~musiclassical/aussie.html
MSN Encarta - Helfgott, David Translate this page helfgott, david (*1947), australischer pianist. Der in Melbourne geborene Musikererlernte das Klavierspiel schon als kleines Kind. Nach dem Umzug mit http://de.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_721543069/Helfgott_David.html
Commentary Magazine - The David Helfgott Show ..david helfgott, a middleaged, mentallyill pianist from Australia,was all but unknown outside his native land a year ago http://www.commentarymagazine.com/Summaries/V103I6P57-1.htm
Extractions: var AID="10306057_1"; Nothing sells like mental illness packaged as genius. ...It was as if his hands remembered how to play the piano, but were doing so without the guidance of his mind... ...Penguin, 337 pp., $11.95 (paper... ...The more one ponders these selfrighteous words, the clearer it becomes that to speak of the marketing of David Helfgott as an act of exploitation is to use too weak a word... ...And indeed, it could be argued that Helfgott's concerts were attracting large numbers of people who had never before attended a piano recital, and the pianist they were paying to see was by all accounts delighted to be playing for them... ...David is then institutionalized... ...A few days after hearing David Helfgott play at Lincoln Center, I went to the Museum of Modem Art in New York to see Willem de Kooning: The Late Paintings, the 1980's... ...Shine, directed by Scott Hicks, is a fictionalized account of Helfgott's life, and one whose essential accuracy has been disputed by members of his family... ...I shall return to these extraordinarily presumptuous words later... ...The American violinist Isaac Stern, impressed by young David's playing, arranges for him to study in America...
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David Helfgott The pain of pianist david helfgott. By now everyone is familiar with Shine,the movie version of Australian pianist david helfgott s rise and fall. http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIVES/1997/022797/music4.html
Extractions: by PHILIP ANSON By now everyone is familiar with Shine, the movie version of Australian pianist David Helfgott's rise and fall. Yet in the months since Shine premiered, we have learned remarkably little about the real Helfgott. What is the truth behind the myth of the child prodigy who collapsed under the weight of his own musical genius, only to be rescued by the redeeming power of love? Is he a goofy genius who thrives on making a public fool of himself? cooperation, and he had to omit unflattering details before they finally approved the screenplay. As a result, what the movie leaves out is almost as disturbing as what it includes. UPFRONT NAKED CITY POP CULTURE ABOUT TOWN ... BACK
Extractions: "Shine," the true story of the Australian child prodigy David Helfgott, has been extravagantly praised, with some justice, as a "film of the year" (of course, it's early yet). Director Scot Hick's account of a phenomenally gifted young pianist whose brilliant career was derailed by the combination of his Jewish emigre father's obsessive demands and his own insecurities until he was rescued by the love of a good woman, contains more than enough Freudian archetypes to satisfy the contemporary hunger for such stories. It's also generally true that the better the film, the worse the spinoff. So it comes as no surprise that this book (first published in Australia), which presents itself as "the true story that inspired the movie," should be not merely worse, but actually even less informative about this "true story" than the film.
David Helfgott: How many more years in him? david helfgott A pianist should play the piano.I ll keep going. GILLIAN helfgott He s got many, many more years. 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.
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Helfgott, David (1947) At BandGuide.com.au Australian pianist; biography, photos links. Visit Instruments KeyboardPiano pianists helfgott david helfgott, david (1947) here. http://www.bandguide.com.au/Detailed/600.html
David Helfgott BRAAVO, david helfgott! Geenius, kõmulegend või lihtsalt hull? pianist on allesnüüd, 50aastasena jõudmas rahvusvahelise tunnustuseni ja saanud (kuri http://www.er.ee/klassik/braavo/helfgott.html
Extractions: Pühapäeval 23. novembril kell 9.05 BRAAVO, DAVID HELFGOTT! Geenius, kõmulegend või lihtsalt hull? Pianist on alles nüüd, 50-aastasena jõudmas rahvusvahelise tunnustuseni ja saanud (kuri)kuulsaks. Davi Helfgotti legendi puhus lõkkele abikaasa Gillan Helfgotti bestseller Love You to Bits and Pieces Penguin 1996) ning Scott Hicksi menufilm SHINE. Skisofreeniat põdev pianist on filmi särapaistes teinud kontserdireise ja uusi plaadistusi. Helfgotti Rahmaninovi-album püsis 1997. aastal üheksa kuud ajakirja Billboard klassikatabeli esikohal. Kas Helfgotti liigutav lugu on legend või bluff, sellest Tiia Tederi saates.
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.
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Fine Line Features | Shine -David Helfgott Shine is inspired by the true story of pianist david helfgott, shown here on theright with filmmaker Scott Hicks at an Australian premiere of the film. http://www.finelinefeatures.com/shine/helfgott/
Fine Line Features | Shine -The Original Article By SAMELA HARRIS. Meeting pianist david helfgott is like tumbling outof everyday life into a softly eccentric wonderland of sounds. http://www.finelinefeatures.com/shine/helfgott/arttext.htm
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.
Review: Shine 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 http://movie-reviews.colossus.net/movies/s/shine.html
Extractions: 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
