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Re: The Pianist
- From: lenka lichtenberg <lenkal...>
- Subject: Re: The Pianist
- Date: Mon 03 Mar 2003 04.54 (GMT)
thank you George for pointing out your excellent review, it's good to know you
were trained for this or else one might suffer an even greater inferiority
complex...
lenka
lenka lichtenberg, singer-songwriter, yiddish and world music performer. for
mp3s, audio clips and performance updates, visit www.lenkalichtenberg.com
----- Original Message -----
From: George Robinson
To: World music from a Jewish slant
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: The Pianist
In the interests of self-promotion, I enclose a link to my review of The
Pianist, which appeared in Jewish Week when the film opened. (Just for the
record, my academic training was as a film critic and it's still what I do best
and most enthusiastically.)
http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=7144
George (But I play a music critic on TV) Robinson
----- Original Message -----
From: Shirona
To: World music from a Jewish slant
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 11:37 AM
Subject: The Pianist
After seeing Roman Polanski's "The Pianist" (a powerful and upsetting film)
- I looked up Wladyslaw Szpilman, the late Jewish/Polish composer/pianist who's
autobiographic account of surviving WWII in Warsaw is the basis of this film .
He was a prolific classical composer, before and after the war (he stayed in
Poland until his death in 2000) - but also wrote some 500 songs, 150 of which
are considered the "evergreens" of Polish popular music...and 40 children's
songs for which he received awards... Is anyone familiar with his music and
songs?
I couldn't help wondering though - how could he stay in Poland after the
entire Jewish population was wiped out, and the Poles proved themselves to be
just as savage and eager to get rid of the Jews as the Germans... Was he such a
musical celebrity in Poland that being Jewish, in his case, didn't matter?
Shirona
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- Re: Wagner and Liszt, (continued)
Re: The Pianist,
George Robinson
- Re: The Pianist,
lenka lichtenberg
Re: The Pianist,
Robert A. Rothstein