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“I was blown away by the film…the reverence that these great musicians had for the composer supported the magic of the compositions” Jay Freund, film editor (Kansas to Kandahar)
“Your film makes it possible for me to look at the nineteenth century!” Peter Romijn, historian, Netherlands Institute for War Documentation "I am privileged to endorse Chopin's Afterlife, a
documentary film conceived by Ophra Yerushalmi. Ms Yerushalmi is a
concert pianist whose original programs, linking music literature and
history, have electrified concert-goers over the years. She is also the
great-granddaughter of the Chief Rabbi of Warsaw, who was as well, among
the first Jewish members of the Polish Parliament. She wishes to wrest
Chopin out of myth and legend, into the fiery intimacy and truthfulness
that a dedicated pianist can evoke, with a story telling camera as
invisible witness." "A unique documentary film. Ms. Yerushalmi has
made a truly wonderful presentation: to study, through Chopin’s music,
the life and afterlife of the maestro, whose work she greatly admires
and has played in many public concerts in this country and abroad. There
was a general consensus that it opens up genuinely new perspectives on
the genre and that she is uniquely qualified to undertake it."
Copyright © (2007) Ophra Yerushalmi
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