Re: The Red Violin WAS Re: playing outdoors

in article [EMAIL PROTECTED], J. Teske at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/27/03 1:18 PM:

> One thing I will say about the film "Red Violin" is that the mechanics
> of violin playing were done better in that film than in any other
> movie having to do with playing the violin except those that actually
> had Heifetz and Stern playing roles in them...e.g. "They Shall Have
> Music" and "Tonight We Sing."   For example, "Hilary and Jackie" might
> have been a decent movie as long as you didn't have firsthand
> knowledge about string playing and if they hadn't portrayed Barenboim
> as a total  wimp.

Yes, we thought so. All of the violinist-actors did a good job (my kids
think the film may have been sped up in Kaspar's etude scene.) Sometimes the
bow changes were a little out of sync, but overall it was very convincing.
Have you seen *Together*, the Chinese film about the boy and his father? The
boy-violinist does a great job (although the actual soundtrack is a
recording by a professional violinist who makes a cameo appearance in the
film. 

Karen