Anyone with a piano at home can tell stories about piano tuners — or piano technicians, as they prefer to be called. In more than a dozen years of producing classical music here at NPR, I have a few ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. ‘Pianomania’ tells the story of a little-seen aspect of the classical ...
The story of concert pianism is strewn with madness – how could it not be, when the demands of the job are so insane? What sane person would build their life round juggling millions of notes from ...
“Pianomania” looks at audiophiles with their ears trained toward perfection, but it is not — to be precise — a film about music. It’s a film about sound. Specifically, it’s an hour and a half of ...
It does not, at first, seem the most promising of premises. But Pianomania, a delicate Austrian documentary about the painstaking work of a master piano-tuner, has spent the last six months scooping ...
Sometimes a behind-the-scenes documentary can be wonderfully illuminating; sometimes it can reinforce the feeling that what’s behind the scenes isn’t quite as cinematically compelling as what’s in ...
Pianist Freddy Kempf also conducts on the Pianomania tour with the NZ Symphony Orchestra. The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra deserves a marketing award for the Pianomania concert. This Reader's Digest ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...
Documentary. Directed by Lilian Franck and Robert Cibis. Starring Stefan Knüpfer. In English and German with English subtitles. (Not rated. 93 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) "Pianomania" looks at ...
In the classical music world, all attention inevitably focuses on the human elements of technique and expression. But what of the instruments themselves? Lilian Franck and Robert Cibis’ “Pianomania” ...
In the classical music world, all attention inevitably focuses on the human elements of technique and expression. But what of the instruments themselves? Lilian Franck and Robert Cibis’ “Pianomania” ...
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