Klarinet Archive - Posting 000141.txt from 2007/05

From: "danyel" <rab@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] Beyond Silence
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 16:00:18 -0400

This movie (German title: Jenseits der Stille) was supposedly the reason for
quite a few of my pupils to take up the clarinet. All "girls" between 8 and
42. One forced me to watch it and I must say it is rubbish. Hardly any real
clarinet music in it, very lame writing (all clichéd), second rate acting
(even by German standards which are low). The Girl plays a Boehm instrument
(yes, given to her by her aunt whom she visits in the Munich Jazz club were
the aunt works with her group. The club is "decorated" by Afro Americans and
other unlikely visitors--if you know German Jazz joints. The girl and her
aunt "jam" a very dull, completely composed salsa number there). Later the
girl applies at a German Musik Hochschule with her Boehm instrument,
beginning the audition with another completely ridiculous, unspeakably limp
"jazzy" number, supposed to be the contemporary work she'd have to play. The
sound produced by the clarinet player who dubbed the parts (or was it the
latest synthesizer?) us utterly sterile and blunt. Needless to say, the
unavoidable uncle Giora (Feitsman or however the guy is called) has his
scene too, but I can't remember what it was like because I was at the
bathroom throwing up.
A disgusting movie. Yet I am happy to report that the surprise my pupils
experienced when they first heard how an actual clarinet sounds was always a
pleasant one, it seems.

Best wishes,
danyel
www.echoton.de/clar.html

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From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
To: "klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 2:44 AM
Subject: [kl] Beyond Silence

> Can anyone comment on the film, "Beyond Silence" which is about a
> young girl given a clarinet by her aunt and she proves so
> talented that she goes to study in Berlin??
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