http://www.sequenza21.com/2012/10/a-late-quartet-connects-random-acts-of-life/ The Contemporary Classical Music Community Sun, 19 May 2013 04:27:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.sequenza21.com/2012/10/a-late-quartet-connects-random-acts-of-life/comment-page-1/#comment-27816 Gene Sat, 03 Nov 2012 02:29:47 +0000 http://www.sequenza21.com/?p=8425#comment-27816 I just saw this film today, and have to say that on the whole it gets the classical music subculture right: most of the details resonated with my own experience attending Juilliard while living on Manhattan’s Upper West Side a few years back. Christopher Walken’s performance was astonishingly good and very moving. Melodrama? Maybe, but it’s all believable nonetheless. The only detail that was off for me was the low price the “perfect” Gagliano violin fetched at the Sotheby’s auction: only $25,000. That figure might have been right for about 1975, but it would be a lot higher now.

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