Klarinet Archive - Posting 000210.txt from 2007/12

From: "Daniel Leeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Beyond Silence
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:42:23 -0500

I asked about a movie of this name a few months ago because the description
of it gave the impression that it was about a young girl studying clarinet
in Berlin. The general reaction to my question said that the amount of
clarinet involvement is very little.

Now that I have seen the movie, I agree that the clarinet does not play a
big role in the movie, but what it does play is choice. For example, the
young girl goes to a klezmer concert and hears what I think was a group with
Giora Feidman in it. It was only a short piece that he played with
clarinet, guitar, and bass, but it was choice Feidman and the young girl was
overwhelmed by it.

Still, her desire to enter the Berlin conservatory is the central motivation
for her life, and though the entry examination is kind of hokey, the film
does have enough of a clarinet participation to make in worthwhile.

The film is complicated by being in German with subtitles AND ALSO the fact
that the young girl's parents are deaf. This means that a lot of the
conversation between them also requires subtitles, too. So you can't take
you eyes off the subtitles for a second.

The film is "Beyond Silence" and if you are with Netflix, they have copies.

Dan Leeson
dnleeson@-----.net
SKYPE: dnleeson

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