tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11827381361417548032024-03-20T01:39:14.196-07:00JOHN MARK - WRITER/NOVELIST/SCREENWRITERJOHN MARKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05718043355245991276noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182738136141754803.post-16239239864862393122019-07-06T02:04:00.002-07:002019-07-06T02:04:33.624-07:00WHY MAKE AN EPIC ABOUT CHOPIN AND LISZT?<br />
<b>WHY MAKE AN EPIC ABOUT CHOPIN AND LISZT?</b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span">There are several great reasons to make such a great film</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">:</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";">One is that movie theaters can be used for other than potboiler type of movies we see every week in theaters and instead deliver the ultimate classical music concert on the highest level to millions of fans of classical music, and especially Chopin and Liszt who are so popular around the world.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Two is that it's the greatest love story ever told, as great as the love story portrayed by Shakespeare in </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Romeo and Juliet</b> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span">equally exciting and literary in equally exciting period of time that we all love and admire.</span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Third is that </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Liszt & Chopin In Paris</b> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">is a sequel to two great movies that were already made and that were immensely popular in the 50’s and 60’s. The first one was </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Song To Remember</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"> directed by George Cukor with Cornell Wilde and it was about Chopin. The other was about Franz Liszt - starring Dirk Bogarde and Capucine and it was called <i><b>Song Without End</b></i>.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Both films were enormous hits during their day. Now, imagine a high-end </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Liszt & Chopin In Paris</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"> today with the best recording techniques, our amazing, superb talent, best costumes, best special effects, best technology, best director and the greatest stars in supporting roles bringing us inside and to the heart of the Romantic Age.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Historically,</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Liszt & Chopin In Paris</span></b> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span">could be a great movie on its own, on the scale of<i>Titanic </i>as one of the biggest grossing movies of all time, because it is a great love story - but it can also stand as a </span></span></span></i><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span">sequel to those two films that were incredibly popular during their time.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span">But at the same time this is not </span><span class="Apple-style-span">like those films at all - both</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">Chopin and Liszt are in the twenties literall, they are superstars and act more like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and both take the City of Paris over with their amazing talent with a little help of their friends - Nicolo Paganini, Camile Pleyel and many others.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Liszt & Chopin In Paris</b> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">is also a powerful synthesis of two previous films, although with a whole new story line and classical music that pre-recorded using latest recording techniques, and my expertise in classical music that I grew up featuring the true pyrotechnics of the piano like you never heard before.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Last time we heard classical piano and classical piano music performed like that was during the time of of Cortot and Hoffman. Unfortunately, no one can play like that today and the amazing virtuosity of Liszt and Chopin must come across as if the music was truly performed by young Liszt, and young Chopin not recorded by someone else. The recordings must also express the enigmatic poetry of the piano by Chopin, and the incredible virtuosity of Liszt.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";">This story is also steeped as an incredible and devouring epic about Liszt's powerful personality and about his friendship and their rivalry, in Chopin's trials and successes in the greatest city on Earth, the City of Lights in the most amazing period of time - The Romantic Age.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";">This is also a true story, about two greatest musicians that ever lived, with the greatest music every recorded for cinema. That's why filmmakers will always come back to this subject over and over again - until someone makes a true masterpieces about this period, about their lives and records the music that sounds like they were playing it.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Here are a couple of excellent pictures that were highly popular at the time of their release - Song To Remember and Song Without End.</span></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";">This was the first film about Chopin directed by George Cukor right after WWII called </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Song To Remember <span class="Apple-style-span">and it was highly popular.</span></span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><b><i>Liszt & Chopin In Paris</i></b> is the synthesis of the above two films into one incredibly dynamic story utilizing state of the art technology in recording the music as if it was truly performed by Chopin and Liszt as if they played it.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span">The music pre-recorded by <b>John Mark</b> for </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Liszt & Chopin In Paris </b>- </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">4th CD entitled "Magical Moments" from <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">150th Anniversary Box-Set </span>(Chopin's death in 1849) features all the selections for the film. </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";">The soundtrack is a pre-amble demo to final release. The CD's were actually sold for very limited time online by Universal Studios via Universal Music Group (UMG) and immediately got tremendous amount of attention.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">The recording was produced as a preamble to get an idea of the multitude of selections featured in the script for<b> </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Liszt & Chopin In Paris</b>, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">but it was</span> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">an amazing </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span">tour de force </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">featuring one the best recordings ever made for a motion picture. </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";">This is is not a hyperbole.... Endorsements from around the world followed. and that's just on the music part of and the conceptual framework for the possible film project in development.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";">The piano - the greatest mechanical mastery ever devised by man, more complex than any Swiss watch, or computer ever built by man is one of the stars as it keeps listeners wondering on the edge of their seats through every note of Liszt's and Chopin's improvisations and through every scene in the movie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>Why isn't there a modern epic movie about Franz Liszt?</b></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">For the past 185 years Franz Liszt has been a true superhero for anyone who aspires to play music, especially the Concert Grand, and for many Liszt is the starting point for every aspiring artist on the road to true virtuoso.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.9333324432373px;"><b>Liszt & Chopin In Paris </b></span><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">is the ultimate movie for global audiences promising to provide total immersion of this remarkable period with stunning performances by Liszt and Chopin themselves portrayed by world-class actors and recorded in amazing Dolby Atmos surround-sound technology accompanied by high-level visual and dramatic performances that have never been produced in cinema on this scale before. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Theatrical films encompassing such glorious and complex subject can work miracles in cinema.</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;">LISZT & CHOPIN IN PARIS</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;"> is a high-profile, theatrical production with a great</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;"> story for audiences of all ages that<b> </b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">spans across two revolutionary decades during which Franz Liszt and Frédéric Chopin lived, featuring those two amazing composer-performers, superstars in their own right and both refugees from war-torn countries who worked, lived, loved and conquered hearts of millions in 19th century Paris, at that time the toughest city in Europe to survive penetrating, and ultimately seducing entire Parisian society with their charm and genius, and with it the whole of Europe and soon the entire world.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Conceived and brilliantly scripted by John Mark who himself was born and educated in the heart of Europe, classical piano virtuoso and composer, accomplished writer and scholar, as well as top-rated performer himself who intimately knows the lives of Liszt & Chopin and their world.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>LISZT & CHOPIN IN PARIS </b>is<b> </b>the story of Franz Liszt and </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Frédéric Chopin featured around</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;"><i>Lisztomania</i> as it were in 21st century in truly global sense bringing ultimate drama and classical music experience in the contemporary 3D surround-sound theater.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><i>Lisztomania</i></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><i> </i>is a term that denotes high-level of adulation, attention, praise, acclaim and polarity on the verge of hysteria around Franz Liszt, the superstar virtuoso of 19th century Paris, and prototype performer for every superstar, and/or performing artist today who all aspire to be like Franz Liszt and whose performances were worshipped up to the point of hysteria.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><i>Lisztomania</i> is very much on people's minds today. When Phoenix released the song "Lisztomania" by Thomas Mars (Sofia Coppolla’s husband) the song instantly became a hit worldwide topping all charts across the board.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><i>Lisztomania</i> in a movie theater sounds like a dream come true, as there are millions of Lisztomaniacs all over the world who will be among the first in line to see this film.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">At the height of <i>Lisztomania</i> that continued up to Liszt’s retirement as concert piano virtuoso in 1847 at the age of 35, the most beautiful women in the world wore bracelets made out of broken piano strings from Liszt’s pianos he broke on stage, carried coffee dregs as necklaces in vials from coffee he drank, and cigar butts from cigars that he smoked revered as relics by his fans…”</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Terms like <i>Beatlemania</i> and the frenzy associated with today’s rock concert all originated from Franz Liszt who was the ultimate performer and entertainer, the god of the piano and all-time virtuoso on whom all top-level professional pianists today try to base their performances all over the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><b>Franz Liszt was the ultimate performer, the greatest superstar of all time on whom even Michael Jackson fashioned his stardom i.e. raised collar, the white glove etc. all originating from Franz Liszt.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><b>Liszt was the first artist in history who had an agent, who traveled with three (3) concert grand pianos and who was followed by a huge procession wherever he went including his management across Europe from Turkey to London while women fainted in hysteria in his presence even more than during The Beatles era, or during Bieber’s performances today.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;"><b>Franz Liszt was the god of the piano, the inventor of the recital, the tour, the modern piano, the first artist ever with an agent and management company, the ultimate performer extraordinaire, as well as the Renaissance Man.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Liszt was also strikingly handsome, much in demand by the most beautiful women in the world, whose charisma and sex appeal lead to many of his romantic conquests on a level that the world of art and music has never seen before, or since. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">He was born in Austria of Austrian mother and Hungarian father who worked at the Esterházy estate and his studies were done in Vienna, principally with Karl Czerny and Anton Reicha. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">In 1822 Liszt has met Beethoven, who’s blessing he counted as the most important formative experience of his musical life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">At age of fourteen, Liszt went with his father to Paris, and adopted French language to the extent that it remained his mother tongue for the rest of his life. Later, he acquired high proficiency in English, Italian, and of course he spoke fluent German, and even some Hungarian, although never fluently in contrast to many distinguished Hungarians of the day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Liszt’s piano performances were legendary and the hysteria surrounding his appearances on stage and in public was comparable to the performances of The Beatles in the 60’ies - as Beatlemania resembled very much the atmosphere of Lisztomania of modern Europe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Throughout history many performers idolized him and copied his style including Michael Jackson who wore Liszt’s white glove, his raised collar and his famous uniform, but Liszt was truly a magician of the piano who could read any piece of music with the score upside down in front of him and perform it flawlessly at first sight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">When Liszt meets his nemesis Frédéric Chopin </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">history is made and true age of virtuosity is born with these two piano gods providing the audiences with unforgettable story in <b>LISZT & CHOPIN IN PARIS</b> as together they mark the beginning of modern Europe and the Romantic Age.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Liszt was the prototype of all superstar musicians and genuine artists fighting for the artist's rightful place in the materialistic world of 19<sup>th</sup> century Europe and he usually got his way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">For example, in Vienna at a long-awaited </span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">soirée</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">at Princess Metternich’s salon while</span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt;"> keeping Liszt waiting the Princess chatted idly with her other guests, then suddenly turned to the pianist and said, "You gave concerts in Italy, didn’t you? Did you do good business there?" In response, Liszt bowed stiffly and replied cuttingly, "Princess, I make music, not business," and left. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The Script <b>Liszt & Chopin In Paris</b> has plenty of references portraying Liszt's amazing, charismatic personality.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Liszt never wavered to opposing anyone in his quest for excellence and to promoting the cause of the arts, including kings, queens, monarchs and those in power even at the risk of summary execution as in the scene with the Tsar who when chattered idly, and not paying attention to Liszt's performance Liszt stopped playing asking the most powerful ruler on earth to stop talking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Liszt was a lot more than the ultimate entertainer extraordinaire. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">He was a revolutionary, a humanist, a pop-star and the Renaissance Man, the ultimate entertainer and European role model all in one. He was <i>l'uomo universale </i>and the international phenomenon to everyone.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">For the past 200 years Franz Liszt has been the role model for generations of artists for whom performing Liszt’s music has been the greatest honor, while </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;">during Liszt’s days thousands of women rushed to Franz Liszt’s performances steeped in sensuality and personal attraction to him that were beyond ordinary. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;">Liszt was admired by the most beautiful women in the world attended his concerts and who frequently surrounding his stage laughed, wept and threw themselves at his feet, tossing their personal jewelry at their idol, scrambling for souvenirs while at the height of Lisztomania some fainted dead simply to get his attention.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">After years on Tour the term <i>Lisztomania</i><b> </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">came from the hysteria that surrounded Liszt's ground breaking performances. It was compared to an infectious disease, a mass hysteria of women wearing his portrait on brooches, fighting over the lumps of his hair, collecting his coffee dregs, and fainting during his concerts.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">When Liszt sat at the piano his fantastic maine of hair, with many medals that he wore on his custom-made vest similar to the one Michael Jackson's vest he drove his audiences to the state of frenzy as Liszt turned his instrument into spellbinding experience that was compared to "the aesthetic equivalent of "St. Vitus-dance". St. Vitus was a saint who supposedly had wild religious ecstasies with his followers who jumped around uncontrollably.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">However, <i>Lisztomania </i>was not only for women who were in love with Liszt. Very few pianists can truly give justice to Liszt's works because they present tremendous pianistic challenge. Unlike Chopin's composition that are based on beautiful, melodic themes and were written by Chopin as publications, Liszt who was the master performer in its own right wrote his works mainly for himself and there really was no one who could perform them like him ever since. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">"How powerful, how startling was the effect of his mere appearance! How vehement was the applause which greeted him! Bouquets were thrown at his feet. It was a grand sight to see how calmly in his triumph he let the bouquets of flowers fall on him, and then placed, while gracefully smiling, a red Camelia which he had plucked from one of the bouquets, in his button-hole. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The electric action of the demonic nature of his playing, closely pressed with a multitude of sounds, the contagious power of music sharing ecstasy<b> </b>in the audience, and perhaps magnetism in his music itself which vibrates in most of us - all </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;">these phenomena never struck me so significantly, or so painfully as in this Liszt concert.”</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">John Mark, writer and creator of <b>LISZT & CHOPIN IN PARIS</b> is American screenwriter and novelist with extensive scholarly background and training in classical music. </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;">John Mark undertook brief studies with Prof. Nadia Boulanger at the Paris Conservatory and film directing and cinematography at IDHEC/Paris followed by studies at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, now part of Cinecitta'</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">John Mark </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">speaks English, French, Spanish and Italian and has received numerous letters of recognition for his contribution to classical music.</span></div>
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<b><span lang="PL" style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.0pt; mso-ansi-language: PL; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">La musique de Chopin </span></b></div>
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<span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Chopin est le plus étonnant fils de notre planète et sa musique est le
Chant de la Terre. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Dans le film <b>Liszt et Chopin à Paris</b>, nous rendons hommage non seulement à
Liszt, le plus grand virtuose de tous les temps, mais à Chopin, en le
remerciant et en lui exprimant notre amour et notre vénération: il est le plus
important compositeur de musique pour le piano, ses oeuvres ont enrichi et
embelli nos vies au long des années, et c’est pourquoi nous sentons emplis de
joie et de gratitude à son endroit. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cette production cinématographique, outre le souvenir de notre passé,
constitue un défi indispensable, justifié par les soucis du temps présent.
Célébrer Chopin et ses oeuvres peut élever et fortifier nos esprits et nos
coeurs, dans un monde tristement en recherche d’un surcroît de forces et
d’inspiration. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nous nommons cette quête ”Chant de la Terre” en mémoire d’Ignacy J.
Paderewski qui fut lui-même l’une des étoiles du piano classique. C’est lui qui
employa cette expression dans un discours prononcé à l’occasion du centenaire
de la naissance de Chopin, en 1910, à Lemberg, alors en Pologne, ville devenue
de nos jours celle de Lviv en Ukraine –
souvenir d’une triste actualité à la lumière de la toute récente crise en ces
contrées anciennes. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Comme il est approprié d’évoquer la musique de Chopin qui nourrit,
inspire et apaise nos esprits et nos
coeurs, quand les êtres humains s’éveillent de la nuit de cauchemars
effroyables, aspirant à rallumer la flamme de la justice universelle, trop de
fois éteinte, obscurcie ou viciée par les souffrances que l’humanité s’inflige
à elle-même.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Comme il est approprié de ne pas oublier les valeurs que nos pères, frères et
ancêtres nous ont enseignées: respecter l’humanité entière, ne pas céder à nos
désirs égoïstes, donner et pardonner, ne pas obéir à la haine. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tel est l’héritage de notre civilisation et des nombreuses générations qui,
pas à pas, nous ont mené aux épreuves de l’heure, en direction d’un futur
incertain où le chaos nous guette et menace, par-delà les infinis précipices du
temps. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Qu’est donc le ”Chant de la terre</b>”? </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">La réponse se trouve dans le film Liszt et Chopin à Paris, grande oeuvre
historique présentée en brillants costumes d’époque avec une magnifique bande
sonore où se déploie le splendide esprit de la musique de Chopin, imprégnée de
noblesse et d’énergie, une force et une dignité subtiles. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;">Un cri déchirant s’y élève au sein des douleurs, angoisses et tourments de
la création:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>Longue vive à l’humanité</b>!</span></div>
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<span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">L’art et tout ce qui découle des profondeurs de l’âme humaine est le
produit des noces de la raison et de l’émotion, et si la musique est le plus
accessible des arts, c’est qu’elle est, par essence et par nature, une
vibration cosmique. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;">C’est peut-être le seul art qui naît directement de tous les éléments de la
vie vibrante en nous: rythme, ton, harmonie. Pouls de la vie fragile et évanescent,
mais toujours mystérieux et puissant. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Mêlée aux flots mugissants, au souffle du vent, au murmure des forêts, la
musique vit au coeur des sursauts sismiques de la terre, dans le mouvement
impressionant des planètes, dans les conflits cachés des atomes, dans toutes
les lumières et toutes les sphères, toutes les couleurs et toutes les formes
qui étonnent et apaisent nos nerfs et nos yeux. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;">La musique est présente dans le sang de nos artères, dans toutes les peines
que nous endurons, dans les passions et les enthousiasmes qui soulèvent nos
coeurs et nos corps. La musique est partout, prenant son essor, par-delà la
parole humaine, dans les sphères éthérées des émotions divines. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;">L’énergie de l’univers ne connaît pas de répit, résonnant d’une façon
continue à travers le temps et l’espace. Manifestations, rythmes, tout tient
son origine des lois de la physique qui maintiennent en ordre les mondes – harmonie cosmique parfaite de mélodies
émises sans cesse, en une chaîne ininterrompue, à travers les espaces étoilés
de la voie lactée, mondes en-deça comme au-delà d’autres mondes, intérieurs et
extérieurs aux sphères humaines et surhumaines, créant une merveilleuse et
éternelle unité en nous dans l’harmonie de l’Etre universel. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;">Peuples et nations se dressent, de nouveaux mondes commencent ou
s’écroulent, étoiles et soleils naissent et meurent. D’elles et d’eux émanent
sonorités et tonalités, substance confinant au silence quand la vie qui cesse.
Mais tout émet toujours de la musique. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;"> L’univers chante pour nous, il nous parle, hautement ou subtilement, muni
d’une infinie variété de sons. Mais il garde toujours sa propre voix,
préservant ses propres gestes dans sa partition spécifique, tout comme est
particulière l’âme d’une nation qui, à sa manière unique, parle, chante et sème
de la musique. Comment donc ? </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;">La musique humaine n’est qu’un fragment de l’éternelle musique, forme créée
par l’esprit et les mains de l’homme, sujette à d’incessantes transformations.
La musique ne pourrait pas exister sans le silence, car c’est du sein du
silence que nous modelons et créons notre existence, ce que la musique de Chopin exprime mieux que toutes. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;">Les temps changent, les peuples changent, chaque génération connaît son
aube lumineuse; pensées et sentiments revêtent des formes nouvelles, tels de
nouveaux vêtements. Les générations successives se soumettent bon gré mal gré à
ce qui a ému et ravi leurs pères et ancêtres, faisant de nouveaux rêves
d’avenir emplis de soifs, excitations et enthousiasmes propulsant l’humanité en
avant vers de nouveaux sommets et de nouvelles croyances: chaque génération
cherche et désire la nouvelle esthétique qui lui est spécifique. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;">Dans cet état d’esprit nous avons entrepris notre film Liszt et Chopin à
Paris, grâce à ces oeuvres d’art nées des nécessités du moment, mais survivant
à leurs créateurs, et parfois, dans le cas de géants comme Liszt et Chopin,
vivant pour toujours. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Le cachet de la nouveauté n’est pas seulement celui d’une unique
génération mais celui d’un monde entièrement nouveau, dont les lumières et les
idées sont endurantes, traversent les âges. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;">Telles sont les oeuvres fortes d’une jeunesse sans fin, lumineuses et
puissantes, à travers lesquelles beauté et vérité parlent haut et fort, avec la
voix de chaque génération, de la race entière, du monde entier, et de la terre
entière qui les ont produites. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;"> Les évolutions se succèdent en nous sans transition, nous passons du
ravissement aux larmes, un seul pas sépare souvent les extases les plus
sublimes des noires profondeurs du découragement et de l’abattement spirituels.
Nous en avons la preuve dans tous les aspects de notre vie quotidienne, de nos expériences
personnelles ou sociales, politiques ou professionnelles, dans notre travail
créateur comme dans les soucis de notre existence individuelle. Ces changements
sont partout discernables. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Cette caractéristique inhérente à l’esprit humain nous apparaît le mieux
quand nous nous comparons à d’autres visages plus heureux ou plus satisfaits,
quels qu’ils soient. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;">Mais nous frappe, comme une pathologie, le fait que les artistes aient
tenté de l’exprimer et de le crier, poètes limités par la précision étroite de
la pensée et des mots, essayant de passer outre, de transcender les langages
écrits en dépit de leur richesse et de leur beauté. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Or Chopin était un musicien, et seule sa musique, peut-être uniquement sa musique
peut tout révéler : la fluidité de nos
sentiments, notre fréquente nostalgie pour la beauté et l’infini, nos héroïques
concentrations, et nos frénésies d’extase, qui font face aux effondrements et
aux désespoirs impuissants dans nos esprits, où, par moments, notre pensée
s’assombrit, et où périt le besoin de l’action. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Alors les mains de Chopin font vibrer la harpe de notre race d’accords si
tendres, si mystérieux, si énergiques, si impérieux, que nous comprenons que sa
musique traduit tout pour nous, le désir virginal comme la grave virilité, ou
la tragique vieillesse, la jeunesse joyeuse et futile, la douceur enveloppante
de l’amour, la force valeureuse et chevaleresque de nos rêves – souhaits,
actions et désirs, tout cela se trouve pour nous exprimé dans la musique de
Chopin. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;">Sa musique, à la fois tendre et tempétueuse, tranquille et passionnée,
caressant et déchirant le coeur, puissante et transcendante, excède et rend
inutile la discipline du mètre. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;">Elle repousse les liens et les lois du rythme, refuse la soumission au
métronome, comme s’il était le joug d’un tyran haï. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sa musique nous mène plus
près et nous attire plus étroitement vers la pure beauté et l’excellence. Ainsi
savons-nous et réalisons-nous que l’humanité entière, la planète Terre vit,
vibre et tressaille en tempo rubato. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"> Et donc, pourquoi l’esprit de
notre terre est-il si clairement révélé dans l’Espace de cette musique, et dans
nulle autre? Pourquoi la voix de notre planète jaillit-elle soudainement de son
cœur comme d’une fontaine, d’une source de profondeur inconnue, d’une façon si
vivante, purifiante et fertile?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Nous devons le lui demander, seul le
grand Chopin peut ouvrir cette matrice secrète de vérité pour nous. Mais il ne
nous a pas encore tout dit, et probablement ne nous le dira jamais. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">L’auditeur moyen, non initié à l’art de la musique, écoute les chefs
d’oeuvres de Bach, Mozart, Beethoven avec indifférence, parfois avec
impatience. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Les inventions polyphoniques et l’énorme richesse et variété des
complexités harmoniques, perceptibles pour l’oreille entraînée des
spécialistes, sont inacessibles à l’auditeur moyen, dont l’esprit s’égare dans
le mystère des combinaisons et dont l’attention erre, parmi les formes
marmoréennes d’une belle sonate de facture allemande. Cet auditeur affronte les
structures étonnantes d’une symphonie classique en se sentant souvent refroidi
et mal à l’aise, comme s’il pénétrait dans une église étrangère. Les angoisses
prométhéennes du plus grand interprète du monde ne le touchent guère. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Pourtant, dès que la voix de Chopin s’élève, cet auditeur moyen change
imméditement d’attitude. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;">Voici que son écoute prend un tour aigu, son attention se concentre, ses
yeux brillent, sa circulation s’accélère, il se réjouit et des larmes coulent
sur ses joues comme à un signal donné, que ce soit celui de la danse ailée de
la Mazurka, la mélancolie du Nocturne, le balancement net de la Krakowiak, le
mystère d’un Prélude, le pas majestueux de la Polonaise, ou bien une simple
Etude, ou encore une vive mais surprenante Ballade, à la fois épique et
tumultueuse, ou une Sonate noble et héroïque: soudain l’auditeur comprend tout,
ressent tout, parce que tout est sien, d’une manière vivante, comme l’est le
vrai Chant de la Terre. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Une fois de plus, à l’écoute de la musique de Chopin, l’air étreint notre
être, et se déploie devant nous comme le paysage de notre pays natal. Sous le
bleu vague d’un ciel triste, l’auditeur revoit la vaste plaine qui a été témoin
de sa naissance, le coin sombre des forêts au loin, les labours et les
jachères, les champs féconds et les étendues de sables stériles. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Une colline élégante est née, au pied de laquelle la brume du crépuscule plane
mystérieusement au-dessus du creux vert des prés, le murmure d’un ruisseau
caresse nos oreilles, les maigres feuilles du bouleau bruissent, tels des
pleurs attendrissantes, tandis que le vent joue dans les peupliers d’automne,
ou remue les vagues vertes des blés mûrs, et un souffle parfumé monte de l’ancienne
forêt de pins, saine, résineuse et magnifique. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;">Tandis que nous écoutons, tout ce décor se peuple d’étranges figures
légendaires du passé, comme si nos ancêtres se trouvaient convoqués pour une
résurrection de leur être surnaturel, et de leur existence à demi oubliée, dans
la nuit d’un printemps. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;">Un Scherzo, avec la lascivité sauvage de demi-dieux et
demi-déesses, fantômes sans nombre, champs hantés et simples prés qui nous
capturent et retiennent dans des buissons denses où combattent les loups, où de
rogues lutins jouent des tours, font des farces, où de petits esprits d’éros planent
et reviennent encercler la Reine de l’Amour, à l’écoute du chant immortel qui,
il y a longtemps de cela, déchira sa poitrine et l’ouvrit pour découvrir, visibles
aux yeux de tous, à nu, un coeur brisé et aimant, plein d’espoir. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Et maintenant, cette scène immémoriale se lève et monte d’une voix sans
âge, faisant entendre son tonnerre sombre, d’une manière menaçante et
solennelle, tandis que tremblent les
bosquets sacrés, que les elfes effrayés s’évanouissent et se sauvent de la
surface du lac, et que les éclairs enflamment, brûlent le ciel. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;">Un orage survient, éclate d’une façon soudaine et terrible, conduisant,
poursuivant et dispersant, comme prisonniers au sein de la tempête
tourbillonnante, les orgueilleux disciples des druides, qui vacillent avec la
chute du souffle de l’été, alors que la musique de nos ancêtres s’engouffre doucement
dans nos âmes. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">La mer du blé d’or au vent s’est asséchée, dans les champs en lambeaux, les
gerbes en faisceaux sont encore debout, la faucille au repos, la caille légère
et la perdrix plus grave, à tire d’aile, partent en quête des riches restes du
chaume. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Les chants de la moisson s’étirent en vagues dans les airs, tandis que
s’élèvent des marais et pâturages l’écho de flûte du gardien des troupeaux, et,
pas trop loin de nous, ce sont le bourdonnement et l’agitation de l’auberge en
bord de route, où les violoneux s’évertuent avec dextérité. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ils jouent en s’aidant seulement de
l’oreille, poussant vers le haut leur fréquente quarte augmentée, pour nous si
familière, lorsque la basse soudaine et rude s’affirme en pédale obstinée,
et que notre peuple se met vivement en branle pour danser, ou chanter lentement
sa mélodie préférée, rêveur et sain, rebelle mais joyeux, cependant toujours nostalgique et étrange. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Dans la petite église en bordure de
chemin, un orgue se fait entendre, pauvre et humble, et loin là-bas, dans les
flots de lumière chaude des grandes salles du majestueux Manoir, se sont réunis
nobles et seigneurs, les grands électeurs du comté, en une cohue étincelante et
multicolore. La musique résonne. Tels sont Liszt et Chopin à Paris</span><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;">!</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A Londres maintenant, avec Lord Chamberlain, ou quiconque est présent, et
du rang le plus digne à l’instant, arrive celui qui prend le commandement de la
Polonaise. Le cliquetis des sabres retentit, le froissemnt des brocards sur les
amples manches, les rangées violettes se lancent au pas, avec audace, les
couples défilent fièrement tandis que des mots tendres coulent vers les joues fines
et les yeux amoureux – vocables de la vénérable langue polonaise en terre
étrangère, largement mêlés d’anglais ici ou là, et de légères touches de
français. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;">Nous sommes de retour à Paris et en Italie où la danse ne cesse jamais,
mais à présent un vieil homme à la longue barbe, aux cheveux blancs, à la voix
d’argent nous conte quelque légende brumeuse au son de la cornemuse, du luth ou
de la harpe. Il chante les terre d’au-delà des mers, nous parle d’un ciel
d’Italie, de joutes de troubadours, de chansons de victoires ou de défaites,
vastes luttes immortelles, sans fin et sans solution. Et tous écoutent et
comprennent. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;">Dehors dans le jardin, l’air est doux et chaud du souffle des roses, du
soupir du jasmin et du lys, tandis que la ravissante jeune fille de la maison
se repose sous le murmure protecteur des
tilleuls, surprise dans un Nocturne étoilé en train de chuchoter à quelque
triste amoureux les tendres peines d’une nuit d’été. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">L’été maintenant s’est enfui, beaucoup d’étés ont passé. Partis sont les
chevaliers dans leur armure, terminées leurs marches conquérantes, tombées sont
les ailes des intrépides hussards, qui, victorieusement, labourèrent et
hantèrent autrefois les flots de la Baltique, car la virilité des nobles
lanciers n’est plus, et rien ne demeure, qu’une mémoire hâtivement retenue dans
les annales de notre gloire. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">L’automne vient et voici les Préludes qui semblent presque les Epilogues de
nos vies. Est-ce là l’automne de la vie, la nôtre, ou est-ce la vie de
l’automne, et d’où la vie commence-t-elle? Les jours sont maintenant plus
courts, la lumière pâlit, les temps sereins et joyeux se font plus rares, et
pourtant, quand le soleil s’élève dans sa gloire, il est difficile de
s’arracher à une telle richesse de couleurs sans égales, pour faire face à la
conscience du crépuscule et de l’ombre qui tout emporte. C’est la musique du
piano. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;">L’ancienne oeuvre qui mesura des jours plus équitables pour nos pères et
les pères de nos pères sonne maintenant solennellement l’heure tardive de
minuit, tandis qu’un vent sinistre rugit, s’engoufrant dans la cheminée vide,
et de nouveau se font entendre soudain les gouttes d’eau rythmées de la pluie
d’automne, mais cette fois accompagnées du doux son mat des feuilles mortes
tombant à terre, et de la funèbre plainte des branches orphelines. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Le très vieux cimetière est plein de fantômes égarés, parmi les ancients
monts et collines remplis d’ombres, revenants présents, ou esprits de retour
d’un lointain passé. La musique s’élance comme si elle provenait de
l’immortalité elle-même, comme si elle abritait tout, le grand et le petit, le
fort et l’humble, le célèbre et l’inconnu, nous dépouillant des erreurs et des
fautes de notre enveloppe terrestre, et nous apportant un nouvel espoir, né des
profondeurs purifiées de l’âme, notre âme embellie, anoblie. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Telle est la musique de Chopin! </span></span><br />
<span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span>
<span lang="PL" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Tel est le Chant de la Terre.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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JOHN MARKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05718043355245991276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182738136141754803.post-4424714929143681722014-03-12T05:50:00.005-07:002016-10-08T05:57:05.906-07:00LISZT & CHOPIN IN PARIS - SONG OF THE EARTH<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 17px;">The m</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 17px;">usic of Chopin is the song of the Earth. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 13pt;">Chopin
is our planet’s greatest son and his music is the song of the Earth. In "Liszt & Chopin In Paris" film we pay homage not only to Franz Liszt, the greatest
virtuoso of all time, but to Chopin, his friend and nemesis bringing our
thanks, love and reverence to the greatest composer of the piano of all time
recollecting with joy and gratitude how over the years our lives were enriched
and beautified through his music.</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 13pt;">Ignacy J. Paderewski’s who was</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> one of the greatest icons of classical piano referred to Chopin's music as "The Song of The Earth" in a speech delivered at the Centenary of Chopin’s birth in 1910 in Lemberg (Poland) today Lviv (Ukraine).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;">How timely his statements are today in view of
the recent crisis in this ancient land, h</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;">ow
timely now is to speak of Chopin’s music that strengthens and heals our spirit
and re-inspires our hearts in peace which most human beings desire when awake
from a night of dreadful dreams, poisoned air and self-inflicted misery hoping
to kindle the flame of universal justice that too many times have been fouled
by dark, blackening smoke of present times.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 13pt;">Remembering
that we were taught to respect all of humanity and to live in contempt of our
selfish wishes, and to give and forgive and not yield to hate, as these are the
values that our fathers, forefathers and brothers have thrust upon us through
the heritage of our generations and our civilization that brought us to the
present into the clutches of today and the chaotic future that looms over us
every day in the infinite abyss of time.</span><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 9.5pt;"> </span><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 13pt;">So
what is the Song of the Earth?</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="PL" style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The
answer is in "Liszt & Chopin In Paris" feature film now being developed for production, a historic masterpiece soon to be
presented on thousands of movie screens around the world with breathtaking
costumes, cinematography and a magnificent soundtrack featuring the radiant
spirit of Chopin’s music whose valor, strength and energy screams so loudly and
yet so subtly in the midst of human suffering troubled by affliction,
heartache, creative pain, hardship and the pangs of existence while at all time
screaming loudly - long live humanity!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 13pt;">Art
and all that springs from the depths of the human soul is the outcome of a
union between reason and emotion, and if music is the most accessible of all
arts to us, it is because of its vibrations that are cosmic by nature. It is
the only art that actually lives with all its elements and vibrations with its
rhythm, tone, harmony and pulse with all the elements of life inside us even
though often stealthy and fragile, yet always mysterious and mighty.</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 13pt;">Mingled
with the flow of rushing waters, the breath of the wind, the murmur of the forests,
music lives in Earth's seismic thrusts, in the mighty motion of the planets,
in the hidden conflicts of infinite atoms, in all the lights and spheres and in
the colors and shapes that dazzle and soothe our nerves and, in our eyes. It
lives in the blood of our arteries, in every pain we endure, in our passion and
ecstasy that moves our hearts and bodies. Music is everywhere, soaring beyond
and above the range of human speech into the unearthly spheres of divine
emotions.</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 13pt;">The
energy of the Universe knows no respite as it resounds unceasingly through Time
and Space, its manifestation, rhythm and origin by the law of physics keeping
order in all worlds known and unknown, maintaining perfect cosmic harmony with
its melodies constantly flowing in the unbroken chain of starry spaces along
the Milky Way, amid worlds beyond worlds, and worlds within worlds, inside and
outside through spheres of human and superhuman realities thus creating a
wondrous and eternal unity in us in the harmony of universal being.</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="PL" style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">People
and nations rise, new worlds begin and crumble, stars and suns are born and die
so that they may give forth tone and sound and substance, and when silence
falls upon them then Life ceases, but everything utters in music.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 13pt;">The
Universe sings to us, it speaks to us, subtly or loudly in infinite variety of
tones, yet it always has its own voice, using its own gestures, as if according
to its own particular score, and the soul of a nation too, speaks, sings and
utters music - but how?</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 13pt;">Human
music is but a fragment of eternal music, its form created by the mind and by
the hands of man being subject to endless transformations. Music could not
exist without silence, for it is from silence that we carve our existence and Chopin’s
music can express this best of all.</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 13pt;">Times
change, people change and every generation has its hour of dawn, as our
thoughts and feeling take new shapes and new people put on new clothes and
garments while the youth, the next generation bow their heads unwillingly to
that which previously moved and enraptured their fathers and forefathers with
thoughts filled with new dreams of the future, their thirsts, intoxications and
enthusiasms are called on to impel humanity towards new, unmeasured heights and
beliefs that every generation searches and desires looking for new beauty, but
for beauty on its own.</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 13pt;">In
this spirit we have began our film ”Liszt & Chopin In Paris” with works of
art that come to life to serve the needs of the moment, but even though for
that moment they take a shorter space of time these works endure longer than
their creators and sometimes as it is the case of both Franz Liszt and Frederic
Chopin they endure forever.</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 13pt;">The
stamp of novelty is not merely of one generation, but of a whole new world and
new generations in a whole new period whose lights and ideas they still reveal
after long years, and there new works in order, timeless and strong with
undying youth, luminous and powerful in which truth and beauty speaks loudly
with the voice of every new generation, and with the new voice of the whole
race, the voice of the whole world and of the very earth which brought them
forth.</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 13pt;">Change
follows change in us almost without transition as we pass from blissful rapture
to sobbing woe where more than often a single step divides our sublimest
ecstasies from the darkest depths of spiritual despondency, and we see the
proof of this in every aspect of our daily lives; we see it in our personal and
political framework of experiences, in our personal and professional development;
in our creative work and in daily troubles and challenges of our existence, as
well as in our social discourse and our internal and personal affairs. This
change is palpable everywhere.</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 13pt;">Maybe
this inherent characteristic of human spirit comes forward best when we compare
ourselves with other happier, more satisfied faces whoever they may be and this
often strikes us as a pathological condition that artists throughout the ages
have tried to express and cried out loud, but being poets they are hampered by
the limiting precision of thought and the strictness of the words they could
not endure that no written language can express entirely, even ours with all
its wealth and beauty.</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="PL" style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But
Chopin was a musician and his music alone, perhaps alone <i>his music</i> can
reveal it all - the fluidity of our feelings and our frequent yearnings for
beauty and infinity, our heroic concentrations and frenzied ecstasies that
tightly face the shattering of rocks and impotent despairs in our minds where
occasionally our thought darkens and the desire for action perishes, and as
Chopin’s hands strung the harp of our race with chords so tender, so mysterious,
so mighty and so compelling we realize that his music expresses all the above
to us best of all, the yearning of maidenhood, the grave manhood, the tragic
old age, the lighthearted and joyful youth, true love's enfolding softness,
the valiant and chivalrous strength of our dreams, wishes, actions and desires
- all these are ours in the music of Chopin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 13pt;">His
music, tender and tempestuous, tranquil and passionate, heart-reaching,
heart-breaking, potent and overwhelming eludes the metrical discipline.</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 13pt;">Chopin’s
music rejects the fetters of rhythmic rules and refuses submission to the
metronome as if it were the yoke of some hated ruler. His music bids us near,
draws us closer to hear pure beauty and perfection, and to know and realize that our whole humanity, our whole
world and the whole planet Earth lives, feels, and moves in tempo <i>rubato</i>.</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 13pt;">So
why should the spirit of our Earth be so clearly expressed from Space in
Chopin’s music above all others? Why should the voice of our planet be
gushed forth suddenly from his heart as if from a fountain, from depths
unknown, so vital, cleansing and fertilizing? We must ask this of him – the
great Chopin alone who can open the secret womb of truth to us, but who has
never yet told us all, and who perhaps will never tell us.</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 13pt;">The
average listener, unfamiliar with the art of music hears the masterpieces of
Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven with indifference, at times even with impatience.</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 13pt;">Polyphonic
ingenuities and the enormous wealth and variety of harmonic intricacies, lucid
enough to the trained and understanding ear are inaccessible to the average
listener as the mind loses its way in the mystery of figures and attention
wanders and strays amid the marble forms of a beautiful, but German sonata, and
as the listener confronts the amazing structures of a classic symphony he or
she often feels chilled and ill at ease as if in a foreign church and often
cannot feel the Promethean pangs of the world's greatest musician performing
the piece.</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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let Chopin's voice speak and the listener changes immediately. His or her
hearing becomes keen, the attention concentrated; the eyes glisten, the blood
flows more quickly, the heart rejoices
and tears as if on a signal flow down the cheeks, be it the dancing lilt of native
Mazurka, the Nocturne's melancholy, the crisp swing of the Krakowiak, the
mystery of a Prelude, the majestic stride of a Polonaise, or an Etude, the
vivid but surprising Ballade, always epic and tumultuous, or the Sonata, noble
and heroic, and the listeners understand it all, feels it all, because it is
all theirs and alive as it is the very song of the Earth.</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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more on hearing Chopin’s music the air enfolds our being and spreads before us
as the landscape of our home. Under the sad sky's vague blue the listener sees
the wide plains upon which he was born, the dark edges of distant forests,
plowed and fallow lands, the fruitful fields and the sterile sandy
stretches.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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gentle hill has risen at whose feet the twilight mist hovers mysteriously above
the green hollow of the meadows, the gurgling of the brook reaching our ears,
the scant leaves of the birch rustle tearfully touching our ears, as the wind
plays in the fall poplars and strokes the green waves of yielding wheat, and a
perfumed breath blows from the ancient pine forest, wholesome, resinous and
magnificent.</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 13pt;">As
we listen, all this becomes peopled by strange, legendary shapes of long ago,
that our forfathers conjured to sight as their unearthly and half-forgotten
beings that come to life again in the spring of the night.</span><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 9.5pt;"> </span><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 13pt;">A Scherzo that beholds with the wild
frolics of demi-gods and demi-goddesses, phantoms without numbers, haunted
fields and meadows holding us captured in the dense thicket where wolves
struggle and roguish imps are at their pranks, and their little hovering
love-sprites return to encircle their Queen of Love, and hear the deathless
song which long ago burst her bosom open and laid bare to all men's sight a
heart broken and loving, full of hope.</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 13pt;">Now,
this immemorial raises its timeless voice and thunders gloomily, threateningly
and solemnly as the holy groves tremble and the scared elves vanish from the
surface of the lake while the lightning flashes burn the sky. A storm awakens
and has broken, sudden and terrific, driving, pursuing and shattering, as if caught
in the tempest's whirling blast, the proud fans of the Druids totter with the
fall of Summer's breath as the music of our ancestors blows softly in our
souls.</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 13pt;">The
sea of golden wheat in wind tattered fields has dried away, the shocks and
sheaves standing still, the sickle at rest and the light quail and graver
partridge stretch their wings searching the rich stores of the stubble. Waves
of the harvest song are in the air, while from marsh and pasture comes the echo
of the herdsman's pipe, and not far away from our ears there is the hum and
bustle at the wayside inn where fiddlers play dexterously. </span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="PL" style="font-size: 13pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">They
play by ear, thrusting in a frequent, augmented fourth so familiar to us when a
sudden, rude bass supplies a stubborn pedal, and than our folk dances briskly,
striding, singing slowly, musingly a healthy sway, wayward, merry, yet soaked
with eerie melancholy of favorite melody. In the little church across the road
an organ sounds, poor and humble, away, there in the stately Manor lights are
flaring in the halls; great nobles, county electors maybe have gathered there
in colorful, glistening throng. Music
sounds. That’s "Liszt & Chopin In Paris"....</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="PL" style="font-size: 13pt;">In
London, with Lord Chamberlain or whoever is present and of most dignified rank at the time steps forth to lead the
Polonaise.There comes the clank of swords, the rustle of brocaded silks against
their wide sleeves, purple lined as with dashing step as the couples march on
proudly while soft smooth words that begin to flow towards fair cheeks and lovely
eyes - the glib words of old Polish tongue in the foreign land, softly interspersed
by many in English here and there, and perhaps with a timid touch of French.</span><span style="font-size: 9.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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we are back in Paris, or Italy perhaps where the dance never ceases, but now
and than an old man, long-bearded, white-haired, silver-voiced tells us some
misty tale to the sound of a bag-pipe, lute and harp. He chants of lands beyond
the seas, speaking of Italian skies, the jousts of troubadours and sings of victorious
battles lost and won, vast immortal struggles, unended and unsolved where all
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in the garden the air is sweet, warm with breath of roses with the sigh of
jasmine and lily while a lovely daughter of the house rests under the shielding
murmur of the limes caught in a starry Nocturne gently whispering words of love
to some sad youth in the tender sorrows of the summer night. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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has passed now, and so have many summers. Gone are the armored knights and
their conquering marches, fallen are the wings of the intrepid hussars who once
victoriously plowed the Baltic waves, as the manhood of the Lancer's nobles
is no more and nothing remains, but a memory fast-held in the annals of our
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comes and here are the Preludes that almost seem to be Epilogues of our lives.
Is this Life's autumn, our own, or is this the Autumn of our life from where
Life itself begins? The days are shorter now, the light wanes, fair times and
merry are rarer now, yet when the sun shines forth in its glory, it is hard to
tear oneself away from so much wealth of the matchless color to face the
consciousness of dusk and outweighing shade. It’s the music of the Piano.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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old timepiece that measured fairer days for our grandfathers and
great-grandfathers now solemnly strikes late at midnight hour while the gloomy
wind howls in the empty chimney and suddenly one hears the measured drops of
the autumn rain once again, but this time with the soft thud of withered leaves
falling to earth and the mournful rustle of orphaned branches. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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old graveyard is full of ghosts amid the ancient mounds and hillocks full of
shadows whose ghost was there before and whose spirit came back from the past.
The music speaks as if it was part of immortality itself, as it harbors all,
great or little, strong or humble, famed or nameless, stripping us of the
errors and quilts of our earthly covering and bringing forth hope anew from the
cleansing depths of our soul, beautified, ennobled. That’s the music of Chopin
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">There's always been a question on everyone’s mind</span></u><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">:</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>Why isn't there a modern epic movie about Franz Liszt?</b></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">For the past 185 years Franz Liszt has been a true superhero for anyone who aspires to play music, especially the Concert Grand, and for many Liszt is the starting point for every aspiring artist on the road to true virtuoso.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;">Now comes the ultimate movie for global audiences promising to provide total immersion in this exciting period with performances recorded in hyper-sound 3D surround-sound accompanied by high-level visual and dramatic performances that have never been produced in cinema on this scale before.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;">Theatrical films encompassing such glorious and complex subject can work miracles for cinema and the audiences worldwide.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>Titanic</b>, <b>Amadeus</b>, <b>Casablanca</b>, <b>Gone With The Wind</b> became all-time classics because they were done with equal parts creativity, passion and intelligence combined with high-level expertise and dramatic intensity.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;">LISZT & CHOPIN IN PARIS</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;"> is a high-profile, theatrical production with a great</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;"> story for audiences of all ages that<b> </b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">spans across two revolutionary decades during which Franz Liszt and Frédéric Chopin lived, featuring those two amazing composer-performers, superstars in their own right and both refugees from war-torn countries who worked, lived, loved and conquered hearts of millions in 19th century Paris, at that time the toughest city in Europe to survive penetrating, and ultimately seducing entire Parisian society with their charm and genius, and with it the whole of Europe and soon the entire world.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Conceived and brilliantly scripted by John Mark who himself was born and educated in the heart of Europe, classical piano virtuoso and composer, accomplished writer and scholar, as well as top-rated performer himself who intimately knows the lives of Liszt & Chopin and their world.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 22px;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>LISZT & CHOPIN IN PARIS </b>is<b> </b>the story of Franz Liszt and </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Frédéric Chopin featured around</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;"><i>Lisztomania</i> as it were in 21st century in truly global sense bringing ultimate drama and classical music experience in the contemporary 3D surround-sound theater.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><i>Lisztomania</i></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><i> </i>is a term that denotes high-level of adulation, attention, praise, acclaim and polarity on the verge of hysteria around Franz Liszt, the superstar virtuoso of 19th century Paris, and prototype performer for every superstar, and/or performing artist today who all aspire to be like Franz Liszt and whose performances were worshipped up to the point of hysteria.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><i>Lisztomania</i> is very much on people's minds today. When Phoenix released the song "Lisztomania" by Thomas Mars (Sofia Coppolla’s husband) the song instantly became a hit worldwide topping all charts across the board.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><i>Lisztomania</i> in a movie theater sounds like a dream come true, as there are millions of Lisztomaniacs all over the world who will be among the first in line to see this film.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">At the height of <i>Lisztomania</i> that continued up to Liszt’s retirement as concert piano virtuoso in 1847 at the age of 35, the most beautiful women in the world wore bracelets made out of broken piano strings from Liszt’s pianos he broke on stage, carried coffee dregs as necklaces in vials from coffee he drank, and cigar butts from cigars that he smoked revered as relics by his fans…”</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Terms like <i>Beatlemania</i> and the frenzy associated with today’s rock concert all originated from Franz Liszt who was the ultimate performer and entertainer, the god of the piano and all-time virtuoso on whom all top-level professional pianists today try to base their performances all over the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><u>WHO WAS FRANZ LISZT</u></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;">Franz Liszt was the ultimate performer, the greatest superstar of all time on whom even Michael Jackson fashioned his stardom i.e. raised collar, the white glove etc. all originating from Franz Liszt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;">Liszt was the first artist in history who had an agent, who traveled with three (3) concert grand pianos and who was followed by a huge procession wherever he went including his management across Europe from Turkey to London while women fainted in hysteria in his presence even more than during The Beatles era, or during Bieber’s performances today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;">Franz Liszt was the god of the piano, the inventor of the recital, the tour, the modern piano, the first artist ever with an agent and management company, the ultimate performer extraordinaire, as well as the Renaissance Man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Liszt was also strikingly handsome, much in demand by the most beautiful women in the world, whose charisma and sex appeal lead to many of his romantic conquests on a level that the world of art and music has never seen before, or since. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">He was born in Austria from Austrian mother and Hungarian father who worked at the Esterházy estate and his studies were done in Vienna, principally with Karl Czerny and Anton Reicha. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">At age of fourteen, Liszt went with his father to Paris, and adopted French language to the extent that it remained his mother tongue for the rest of his life. Later, he acquired high proficiency in English, Italian, and of course he spoke fluent German, and even some Hungarian, although never fluently in contrast to many distinguished Hungarians of the day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Liszt’s piano performances were legendary and the hysteria surrounding his appearances on stage and in public was comparable to the performances of The Beatles in the 60’ies - as Beatlemania resembled very much the atmosphere of Lisztomania of modern Europe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Throughout history many performers idolized him and copied his style including Michael Jackson who wore Liszt’s white glove, his raised collar and his famous uniform, but Liszt was truly a magician of the piano who could read any piece of music with the score upside down in front of him and perform it flawlessly at first sight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">When Liszt meets his nemesis Frédéric Chopin</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">history is made and true age of virtuosity is born with these two piano gods providing the audiences with unforgettable story in <b>LISZT & CHOPIN IN PARIS</b> as together they mark the beginning of modern Europe and the Romantic Age.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Liszt was the prototype of all superstar musicians and genuine artists fighting for the artist's rightful place in the materialistic world of 19<sup>th</sup> century Europe and he usually got his way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">For example, in Vienna at a long-awaited </span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">soirée</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">at Princess Metternich’s salon while</span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt;"> keeping Liszt waiting the Princess chatted idly with her other guests, then suddenly turned to the pianist and said, "You gave concerts in Italy, didn’t you? Did you do good business there?" In response, Liszt bowed stiffly and replied cuttingly, "Princess, I make music, not business," and left. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Liszt never wavered to opposing anyone in his quest for excellence and to promoting the cause of the arts, including kings, queens, monarchs and those in power even at the risk of summary execution as in the scene with the Tsar who when chattered idly, and not paying attention to Liszt's performance Liszt stopped playing asking the most powerful ruler on earth to stop talking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Liszt was a lot more than the ultimate entertainer extraordinaire. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">He was a revolutionary, a humanist, a pop-star and the Renaissance Man, the ultimate entertainer and European role model all in one. He was <i>l'uomo universale </i>and the international phenomenon to everyone.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">For the past 200 years Franz Liszt has been the role model for generations of artists for whom performing Liszt’s music has been the greatest honor, while </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;">during Liszt’s days thousands of women rushed to Franz Liszt’s performances steeped in sensuality and personal attraction to him that were beyond ordinary. Liszt was admired by the most beautiful women in the world attended his concerts and who frequently surrounding his stage laughed, wept and threw themselves at his feet, tossing their personal jewelry at their idol, scrambling for souvenirs while at the height of Lisztomania some fainted dead simply to get his attention.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">After years on Tour the term <i>Lisztomania</i><b> </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19px;">came from the hysteria that surrounded Liszt's ground breaking performances. It was compared to an infectious disease, a mass hysteria of women wearing his portrait on brooches, fighting over the lumps of his hair, collecting his coffee dregs, and fainting during his concerts.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">When Liszt sat at the piano his fantastic maine of hair, with many medals that he wore on his custom-made vest similar to the one Michael Jackson's vest he drove his audiences to the state of frenzy as Liszt turned his instrument into spellbinding experience that was compared to "the aesthetic equivalent of "St. Vitus-dance". St. Vitus was a saint who supposedly had wild religious ecstasies with his followers who jumped around uncontrollably.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">However, <i>Lisztomania </i>was not only for women who were in love with Liszt. Very few pianists can truly give justice to Liszt's works because they present tremendous pianistic challenge. Unlike Chopin's composition that are based on beautiful, melodic themes and were written by Chopin as publications, Liszt who was the master performer in its own right wrote his works mainly for himself and there really was no one who could perform them like him ever since. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">“After bowing low in all directions to a tumult of applause such as had probably not been heard in Petersburg since 1703, Liszt seated himself at the piano. Instantly the hall became deadly silent. We had never in our lives heard anything like this; we had never been in the presence of such a brilliant, passionate, demonic performer, at one moment rushing like a whirlwind, at another pouring forth cascades of tender beauty and grace with amazing brilliance. Liszt's playing was absolutely overwhelming to all as we took a vow that thenceforth and forever, that day, 8 April 1842, would be forever sacred to us, and we would never forget a single second of his performance till our dying day."</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">"How powerful, how startling was the effect of his mere appearance! How vehement was the applause which greeted him! Bouquets were thrown at his feet. It was a grand sight to see how calmly in his triumph he let the bouquets of flowers fall on him, and then placed, while gracefully smiling, a red camelia which he had plucked from one of the bouquets, in his button-hole. The electric action of the demonic nature of his playing, closely pressed with a multitude of sounds, the contagious power of music sharing ecstasy<b> </b>in the audience, and perhaps magnetism in his music itself which vibrates in most of us - all </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;">these phenomena never struck me so significantly, or so painfully as in this Liszt concert.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;">Franz Liszt, like a true pop-star of his day has made is music approachable to everyone, to the point that people who never played the piano, or listened to the piano immediately fell in love with it because of the way he presented it on the stage.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Liszt believed he could do anything on the piano, and in that sense he was the great modernist capable of writing prophetic work that even today can easily stand up to the most demanding 20<sup>th</sup>century compositions and beyond, yet despite technical difficulties the music of Liszt always exhibits the unique warmth of his emotional<i>l’uomo universale</i> personality and his joyful spirit with deep sympathy for life, love and humanity and with the highest degree of compassion.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Liszt loved life greatly and all its earthly stuff, he loved the smell of life and its hedonistic pleasures and he was entirely free of all dogma and prejudices that set him free and allowed him to embrace all of humanity with love and sympathy for everyone.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">He traveled widely, and during his concerts played such extraordinary mixture of music that the audience were simply stunned with his daring displays of virtuosity, to the point that after his concerts entire towns celebrated on streets all night long with residents so excited they could not rest and kept partying until dawn.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Beatlemania, Biebermania, the raised collar, the recital, the Tour, Michael Jackson’s trademark uniform and white glove all originated from Liszt who started it all on stage before the queens and monarchs in music-charged salons 185 years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">As an icon Liszt met and befriended almost every person of artistic genius in early 1830s Paris, the capital of music, including Paganini, Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Alkan, Hiller, Auber, Bellini, Meyerbeer, Delacroix, Ingres, Hugo, Heine, Balzac, Georges Sand and Dumas père. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">By 1835, when he eloped to Switzerland with Marie d’Agoult and then to Lake Como, Italy after a scandal erupted during which their daughter Cosima was born.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">John Mark, writer and creator of <b>LISZT & CHOPIN IN PARIS</b> is American screenwriter and novelist with extensive scholarly background and training in classical music. He studied classical piano and music composition in Warsaw at Panstwowa Wyzsza Szkola im. Elsnera Drugiego Stopnia, ul. Swietojerska (Chopin's school and hometown) named for Prof. Jozef Elsner who taught Frédéric Chopin. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">During Chopin's time the school was referred to as the Warsaw Conservatory and since then has been known for its legendary teachers among them Stanislaw Moniuszko, Karol Szymanowski, Ignacy Paderewski and many others<b>.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;">After leaving Warsaw to Geneva and Paris at young age to study classical music John Mark undertook studies with Prof. Nadia Boulanger at the Paris Conservatory, and then film directing and cinematography at IDHEC/Paris and at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia that is part of Cinecitta studio</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">in Rome.</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> John Mark </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">speaks English, French, Spanish, Italian and Polish and he has received numerous letters of recognition for his contribution to classical music.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;">For me the Director is the ultimate storyteller. He, or she is an artist who is the extension of the writer’s vision. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;">Filmmaking all begins with a story, the moment the writer hands over a brand new, shiny package bound in plain looking cover with brass brads collectively called the Screenplay, or the Script. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;">These days of course feature film scripts, or screenplays are send via e-mail saving everyone lots of time and money, but before and during actual production everyone follows the printed script format. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br /><b><u>What is the Screenplay</u>?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;">Short answer: it's the story encoded in cinematic terms from which it can be told in multiple ways by many artists and professionals in the production team.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;">In our limited human experience surrounded by infinite Universe and another equally infinite subatomic world we cannot even see, with humanity operating in highly restricted environment, no matter who we, or where we are everyone has a story. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;">This works on every level for everyone individually, and when told with equal amount of passion and authenticity everyone’s story is equally fascinating, whether it would be Odysseus, Queen Victoria, Lincoln, Einstein, Beethoven, or a guy next door. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;">Of course, this gets much better when we have several stories intertwined together, as human beings rarely live by themselves, so whenever we tell a story about someone there is usually a unique world around them interacting with our hero, or a heroine.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br />Consequently, this is where the director takes over which is to tell a story about someone’s life and about others using his set of tools, the actors and the cameraman with his crew, and the production designer. <o:p>The d</o:p>irector is the extension of the writer who brings to reality the dramatic structure encoded in the script by the screenwriter.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;">Screenwriting and filmmaking are all about storytelling in the most fascinating, exciting and revealing way with good taste, drama and authenticity, and the director’s job is to perform the function of a storyteller on the highest level and make everyone around him comfortable. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br />My favorite directors are no longer alive today, but there are still few left and they are the icons of cinema among the elite group of people numbering less than few hundred in the world. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br /><b><u>Who Are Great storytellers</u>?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><u>Answer</u>: John Ford (<b>Stagecoach</b>), Alfred Hitchcock (<b>Rear Window</b>), Anthony Mann (<b>Winchester ‘73</b>) Howard Hawks (<b>Rio Bravo</b>), Sam Peckinpah (<b>Straw Dogs)</b>, Ingmar Bergman (<b>The Virgin Spring</b>), John Schlesinger (<b>Midnight Cowboy</b>), Robert Siodmak (<b>The Crimson Pirate</b>), Bo Widerberg (<b>Elvira Madigan)</b>, David Lean (<b>A Pasage to India)</b>, Michael Curtiz (<b>Casablanca</b>), Stanley Kubrick (<b>Barry Lyndon</b>), Akira Kurosawa (<b>Roshomon</b>), Luchino Visconti (<b>Death In Venice</b>), Michelangelo Antonioni (<b>Blow-Up</b>) and many others from the past.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br />Above films are few examples of great storytelling. They have a unifying theme to all their work which is good taste and the ability to tell a great story and capture it on the screen with all other filmmakers on their team. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: medium;">From living directors several come to mind Francis Ford Coppola (<b>The Godfather</b>), Woody Allen (<b>Midnight In Paris</b>), Steven Spielberg (<b>Schindler's List</b>), Milos Forman (<b>Amadeus</b>), James Cameron (<b>Titanic</b>), Milos Forman (<b>One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest</b>), Andrzej Wajda (<b>Young Girls of Wilko</b>) and other directors for whom it's all about well-told story.</span><br />
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JOHN MARKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05718043355245991276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182738136141754803.post-71024021050990532912013-12-24T10:26:00.001-08:002014-05-03T11:40:49.040-07:00LISZTOMANIA - via LAPHAM'S QUARTERLY<a href="http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/voices-in-time/lisztomania.php#.UrnR0pb3po0.blogger">Lisztomania - Lapham’s Quarterly</a>JOHN MARKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05718043355245991276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182738136141754803.post-15308452313752588002011-12-29T15:18:00.003-08:002012-12-29T15:27:44.113-08:00FRANZ LISZT - THE ULTIMATE VIRTUOSO IN LISZT & CHOPIN IN PARIS<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">For the past 185 years Franz Liszt has been a true superhero for anyone who aspires to play music, especially the Concert Grand, and for many Liszt is the starting point for every aspiring artist on the road to true virtuoso.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Now comes the ultimate movie for global audiences promising to provide total immersion in this exciting period with performances recorded in hyper-sound 3D surround-sound accompanied by high-level visual and dramatic performances that have never been produced in cinema on this scale before.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><b>Titanic</b>, <b>Amadeus</b>, <b>Casablanca</b>, <b>Gone With The Wind</b> became all-time classics because they were done with equal parts creativity, passion and intelligence combined with high-level expertise and dramatic intensity.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 14px;"><b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;">LISZT & CHOPIN IN PARIS</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt;"> is a high-profile, theatrical production with a great</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> story for audiences of all ages that<b> </b></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">spans across two revolutionary decades during which Franz Liszt and Frédéric Chopin lived, featuring those two amazing composer-performers, superstars in their own right and both refugees from war-torn countries who worked, lived, loved and conquered hearts of millions in 19th century Paris, at that time the toughest city in Europe to survive penetrating, and ultimately seducing entire Parisian society with their charm and genius, and with it the whole of Europe and soon the entire world.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Conceived and brilliantly scripted by John Mark who himself was born and educated in the heart of Europe, classical piano virtuoso and composer, accomplished writer and scholar, as well as top-rated performer himself who intimately knows the lives of Liszt & Chopin and their world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>Lisztomania</i> is very much on people's minds today. When Phoenix released the song "Lisztomania" by Thomas Mars (Sofia Coppolla’s husband) the song instantly became a hit worldwide topping all charts across the board.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At the height of <i>Lisztomania</i> that continued up to Liszt’s retirement as concert piano virtuoso in 1847 at the age of 35, the most beautiful women in the world wore bracelets made out of broken piano strings from Liszt’s pianos he broke on stage, carried coffee dregs as necklaces in vials from coffee he drank, and cigar butts from cigars that he smoked revered as relics by his fans…”</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Terms like <i>Beatlemania</i> and the frenzy associated with today’s rock concert all originated from Franz Liszt who was the ultimate performer and entertainer, the god of the piano and all-time virtuoso on whom all top-level professional pianists today try to base their performances all over the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><u>WHO WAS FRANZ LISZT</u></span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">?</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Franz Liszt was the ultimate performer, the greatest superstar of all time on whom even Michael Jackson fashioned his stardom i.e. raised collar, the white glove etc. all originating from Franz Liszt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Liszt was the first artist in history who had an agent, who traveled with three (3) concert grand pianos and who was followed by a huge procession wherever he went including his management across Europe from Turkey to London while women fainted in hysteria in his presence even more than during The Beatles era, or during Bieber’s performances today.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Franz Liszt was the god of the piano, the inventor of the recital, the tour, the modern piano, the first artist ever with an agent and management company, the ultimate performer extraordinaire, as well as the Renaissance Man.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He was born in Austria from Austrian mother and Hungarian father who worked at the Esterházy estate and his studies were done in Vienna, principally with Karl Czerny and Anton Reicha. </span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At age of fourteen, Liszt went with his father to Paris, and adopted French language to the extent that it remained his mother tongue for the rest of his life. Later, he acquired high proficiency in English, Italian, and of course he spoke fluent German, and even some Hungarian, although never fluently in contrast to many distinguished Hungarians of the day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When Liszt meets his nemesis Frédéric Chopin</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">history is made and true age of virtuosity is born with these two piano gods providing the audiences with unforgettable story in <b>LISZT & CHOPIN IN PARIS</b> as together they mark the beginning of modern Europe and the Romantic Age.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-size: 19px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Liszt was the prototype of all superstar musicians and genuine artists fighting for the artist's rightful place in the materialistic world of 19<sup>th</sup> century Europe and he usually got his way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For example, in Vienna at a long-awaited </span><span lang="FR" style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: FR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">soirée</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">at Princess Metternich’s salon while</span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> keeping Liszt waiting the Princess chatted idly with her other guests, then suddenly turned to the pianist and said, "You gave concerts in Italy, didn’t you? Did you do good business there?" In response, Liszt bowed stiffly and replied cuttingly, "Princess, I make music, not business," and left. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Liszt was a lot more than the ultimate entertainer extraordinaire. </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">He was a revolutionary, a humanist, a pop-star and the Renaissance Man, the ultimate entertainer and European role model all in one. He was <i>l'uomo universale </i>and the international phenomenon to everyone.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For the past 200 years Franz Liszt has been the role model for generations of artists for whom performing Liszt’s music has been the greatest honor, while </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">during Liszt’s days thousands of women rushed to Franz Liszt’s performances steeped in sensuality and personal attraction to him that were beyond ordinary. Liszt was admired by the most beautiful women in the world attended his concerts and who frequently surrounding his stage laughed, wept and threw themselves at his feet, tossing their personal jewelry at their idol, scrambling for souvenirs while at the height of Lisztomania some fainted dead simply to get his attention.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">However, <i>Lisztomania </i>was not only for women who were in love with Liszt. Very few pianists can truly give justice to Liszt's works because they present tremendous pianistic challenge. Unlike Chopin's composition that are based on beautiful, melodic themes and were written by Chopin as publications, Liszt who was the master performer in its own right wrote his works mainly for himself and there really was no one who could perform them like him ever since. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“After bowing low in all directions to a tumult of applause such as had probably not been heard in Petersburg since 1703, Liszt seated himself at the piano. Instantly the hall became deadly silent. We had never in our lives heard anything like this; we had never been in the presence of such a brilliant, passionate, demonic performer, at one moment rushing like a whirlwind, at another pouring forth cascades of tender beauty and grace with amazing brilliance. Liszt's playing was absolutely overwhelming to all as we took a vow that thenceforth and forever, that day, 8 April 1842, would be forever sacred to us, and we would never forget a single second of his performance till our dying day."</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;">After leaving Warsaw to Geneva and Paris at young age to study classical music John Mark undertook studies with Prof. Nadia Boulanger at the Paris Conservatory, and then film directing and cinematography at IDHEC/Paris and at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia that is part of Cinecitta studio</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">in Rome.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> John Mark </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">speaks English, French, Spanish, Italian and Polish and he has received numerous letters of recognition for his contribution to classical music.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He has written numerous screenplays: <b>GOLDEN VOYAGE</b>, <b>AFTER THE RAINFALL</b>, <b>DEATHBLOW</b> and <b>LISZT & CHOPIN IN PARIS. </b></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;">The Script is now being developed for production as major theatrical motion picture of the same title. He </span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;">has personally recorded preliminary soundtrack for </span><b style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;">LISZT & CHOPIN IN PARIS</b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">YouTube - Key search words: John Mark Chopin</span><b style="background-color: #f2f2f2; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">that paves way to the ultimate 3D hypersound surround sound Soundtrack soon to be produced and recorded with world's greatest virtuosos.</span></div>
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JOHN MARKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05718043355245991276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182738136141754803.post-66409624970738725932011-09-29T07:45:00.000-07:002013-06-18T05:26:46.377-07:00DIRECTOR AS THE STORYTELLER<div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">For me the Director is the ultimate storyteller. He, or she is an artist who is the extension of the writer’s vision. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Filmmaking all begins with a story, the moment the writer hands over a brand new, shiny package bound in plain looking cover with brass brads collectively called the Screenplay, or the Script. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">These days of course feature film scripts, or screenplays are send via e-mail saving everyone lots of time and money, but before and during actual production everyone follows the printed script format. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Short answer: it's the story encoded in cinematic terms from which it can be told in multiple ways by many artists and professionals in the production team.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span">In our limited human experience surrounded by infinite Universe and another equally infinite subatomic world we cannot even see, with humanity operating in highly restricted environment, no matter who we, or where we are everyone has a story. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">This works on every level for everyone individually, and when told with equal amount of passion and authenticity everyone’s story is equally fascinating, whether it would be Odysseus, Queen Victoria, Lincoln, Einstein, Beethoven, or a guy next door. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Of course, this gets much better when we have several stories intertwined together, as human beings rarely live by themselves, so whenever we tell a story about someone there is usually a unique world around them interacting with our hero, or a heroine.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />Consequently, this is where the director takes over which is to tell a story about someone’s life and about others using his set of tools, the actors and the cameraman with his crew, and the production designer. <span class="Apple-style-span"><o:p>The d</o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">irector is the extension of the writer who brings to reality the dramatic structure encoded in the script by the screenwriter. </span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Screenwriting and f</span><span class="Apple-style-span">ilmmaking are all about storytelling in the most fascinating, exciting and revealing way with good taste, drama and authenticity, and the director’s job is to perform the function of a storyteller on the highest level and make everyone around him comfortable. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />My favorite directors are no longer alive today, but there are still few left and they are the icons of cinema among the elite group of people numbering less than few hundred in the world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><u>Answer</u>: John Ford (<b>Stagecoach</b>), Alfred Hitchcock (<b>Rear Window</b>), Anthony Mann (<b>Winchester ‘73</b>) Howard Hawks (<b>Rio Bravo</b>), Sam Peckinpah (<b>Straw Dogs)</b>, Ingmar Bergman (<b>The Virgin Spring</b>), John Schlesinger (<b>Midnight Cowboy</b>), Robert Siodmak (<b>The Crimson Pirate</b>), Bo Widerberg (<b>Elvira Madigan)</b>, David Lean (<b>A Pasage to India)</b>, Michael Curtiz (<b>Casablanca</b>), Stanley Kubrick (<b>Barry Lyndon</b>), Akira Kurosawa (<b>Roshomon</b>), Luchino Visconti (<b>Death In Venice</b>), Michelangelo Antonioni (<b>Blow-Up</b>) and many others from the past.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br />Above films are few examples of great storytelling. They have a unifying theme to all their work which is good taste and the ability to tell a great story and capture it on the screen with all other filmmakers on their team. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">From living directors several come to mind Francis Ford Coppola (<b>The Godfather</b>), Woody Allen (<b>Midnight In Paris</b>), Steven Spielberg (<b>Schindler's List</b>), Milos Forman (<b>Amadeus</b>), James Cameron (<b>Titanic</b>), Milos Forman (<b>One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest</b>), Andrzej Wajda (<b>Young Girls of Wilko</b>) and other directors for whom it's all about well-told story.</span><br />
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JOHN MARKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05718043355245991276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182738136141754803.post-55213773758029621472011-09-23T10:47:00.000-07:002014-05-03T12:51:41.405-07:00LISZT & CHOPIN IN PARIS - SYNOPSIS<b style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 10.5pt;"><br /></span></b>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">This story is about two greatest superstars of classical music Franz Liszt and <i><span style="color: black; font-style: normal;">Frédéric</span></i></span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal;"> </span></b></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Chopin taking place in nineteenth-century Paris just before the Industrial Revolution in a brief, magical period of time that gave birth to many ideologies everyone cherishes today - The Romantic Age. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">It is 1831 and young </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Chopin arrives in Paris, the capital of music sizzling with music personalities and amazing performers after saying goodbye to his homeland. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">When Chopin plays, Liszt</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">suddenly realizes that his career as </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">all-time virtuoso has been threatened and challenged by Chopin’s genius. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">They become fierce rivals and along with immortal characters such as </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Nicolo Paganini, Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Richard Wagner, Giacomo Rossini, Eugene Delacroix they conquer Paris completely with their music and with it the entire world.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">D</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">riven by obsession for excellence and never ending quest for immortality Liszt undertakes affairs with some of the most fascinating females of the day, royals so rich they own half of countries, opera singers so stunning they sell out theaters in countries whose languages they could not speak, and when Chopin has an affair with one of his famous muses who writes under the pen name of George Sand their affair becomes one of the most celebrated love stories in Paris and of all time next to Romeo and Juliet.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">Chopin’s and Sand’s great love story takes us into the world full of intrigue and adventure and the quest for greatness in which everyone from kings and queens to ordinary people has a personal stake in it as we come closer to our understanding</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">of creativity and the incredible art of classical piano.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">When Chopin dies at the age of 39 on </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: black;">Place Vendôme</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> in Paris and Liszt accepts his Court appointment in Weimar we come full circle in appreciating the art and lives of those two great men and cultural icons who conquer the world with their talent. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Switzerland - 1939</b>. As their conversation turns to music, the journalist asks Rachmaninoff how is it possible that he could play such beautiful music, at which point Rachmaninoff goes to the piano and plays the opening chords of his 1st Piano Concerto. "I am simply carrying a torch," he says smiling, ceaselessly and seamlessly surfing the keyboard with his large hands on a magnificent looking piano. "This is where my music comes from," he continues, as deep, penetrating chords of his playing resound in the room. "You want a great story, then listen ..." he says continuing his playing. "This is the story of Paris..."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"It’s the story of Paris," repeats Rachmaninoff reflectively as we pull back to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Paris Conservatoire </i>and to Hector Berlioz conducting his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Symphony Fantastique </i>leading his enormous orchestra with waltzy opening chords of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Un Bal</i>. The spinning, glittering sounds of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Symphony Fantastique </i>take us to the Parisian salon where Franz Liszt is sitting at his piano surrounded by his admirers following his every movement.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Behind him stands young Chopin observing Liszt quietly as Liszt is trying to read Chopin's <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Winter Wind </i>etude with Liszt repeatedly striking the chords having difficulty getting it right for the first time.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Frustrated in the attempt to read it correctly Liszt changes his mind and plays several fast progressions of his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mephisto Waltz </i>that sound like cascades falling from the sky, crystal clear and powerful to the sighs of his admirers. Liszt then stops playing abruptly and returns to reading of Chopin's work.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"I don't think there is anyone in the world who could play this work <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">prima vista</i>", he says impatiently. "Please, you play it for us ... " he asks, and as young Chopin sits at the piano, he begins to play his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Winter Wind </i>etude. Camera pans slowly revealing transfixed faces of the listeners. The salon is charged with excitement, quickly erupting into applause.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"At the time when musicians were looking for ways to break new grounds," continues Rachmaninoff, "here this young man who not only stays with classical rules, but by doing it so stringently and so perfectly and with such devotion he becomes the most original and powerful composer since Mozart," he says.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"The year is 1810," Rachmaninoff continues... "and on April 23, a French language teacher from a local school in Warsaw requests in the City Hall that a name be given to a boy who was born in his house from a mother Justine. He asks that two names be given to this effect and signs a document in the presence of two witnesses - Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin", continues Rachmaninoff.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Rachmaninoff stops playing as we move to Warsaw in the year 1810. Chopin family has six members: three daughters and one son, Mother Justine and Father Nicholas who emigrated from France before the French Revolution, and who like all emigrants refers to Napoleon as 'a thief and murderer' is almost sublime in his seriousness.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is the magical world of 19th Century Europe as if taken from the enchanted world of Tolstoy and the Rostow family in "War and Peace", or an image from "Fanny and Alexander" as we witness this loving and nurturing family with certain detachment from reality, yet totally and wholly dedicated to the cultivation of culture and literary life.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This time we are in the room full of boys who proceed to tear their room apart in a wild pillow fight, running and screaming around with young Fryderyk among them. Suddenly, Fryderyk hollers at the boys, telling them to stop as he is about to tell them an interesting story.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He then proceeds to intensify his playing telling them the rest the story with the sounds of the piano. The boys listen in silence as he paints the picture of the forest, the pitch dark, brilliant night, the thieves lying on the ground with their loot on their chest, grasping it and then falling asleep as the eyes of the boys close, and they all fall into deep sleep.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Fryderyk then suddenly gets up from the piano and quietly tiptoes to his mother and his sisters showing them to come quickly with him so they can see an unusual sight.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They tiptoe back with him and see the view of the boys sound asleep in the living room. The mother and sisters break out in smiles as Fryderyk then runs to the piano hitting a loud, striking and dissonant chord which immediately gets all the boys on their feet who do not know what is happening to them and the whole company breaks out in laughter.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Suddenly, his mother Justyna interrupts the lesson and calls everyone to lunch. The teacher takes his seat near the housekeeper with everyone at the table. He puts his meal on the plate in such a hurry and eating so loud that the boys, finding it amusing burst out with garbled, contained explosions of laughter.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We now move to Fryderyk walking with his father in the country. They're lost in the snowstorm at their nearby Zelazowa Wola residence. It is a cold, winter night as they come near local inn and head on for shelter upon hearing the sound of violin. The boy halts, eager to hear the rest of it, and as the Father goes inside Fryderyk stands by the window oblivious to the oncoming snow storm and listening to the sound of violin.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"What is the secret of this music? Why is it so different from others who played before him?" he asks. "In the second half of eighteenth-century," continues Rachmaninoff, "Vienna was the capital of European music primarily because of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The trip takes the entire the summer months until beginning of September through Cracow, Brestlau, Prague, Leipzig and Dresden. During this trip which young Fryderyk calls it his <i>grand voyage</i>, we can see how from person to person, acquaintance to acquaintance, recommendation to recommendation young Chopin skillfully increases his circle of influence.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">He understands it just as his father understood it and knows it is necessary. He wants it that way and it now seems second nature to him. The old adage of "making contacts" is nowhere more apparent than in this young man's first journey across the kingdoms of Europe on his own to discover the West. His first public concert is in Vienna at Kamtnertortheater and Frederick is still a teenager then.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In Vienna, after the concert young Chopin is drawn by the creative atmosphere of Europe and its romanticism, away from his great sanctuary in Warsaw. Vienna at that time was a magical city like Venice, and a go-between Florence, and the world of Antiquity during Renaissance. In nineteen century Vienna kept the balance of cultural tradition between East and West and effectively communicated this creative and cultural exchange.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Accordingly, the reception that a virtuoso was receiving from audiences was equivalent to contemporary performances of the rock stars of our age, or the best 'pop' stars of today as this was <i>the golden age of pianism</i>, the age of the virtuoso, and given of course of the adjustment of the etiquette of that period, the enthusiasm and the appreciation of audiences for the arts and the amazing art of piano performance were overwhelming.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">On his way back to Warsaw as Chopin sits in a stage coach driven by his friend he opens a letter from his father informing him that Nicolo Paganini, the mysterious, great violinist from Genoa famous for his dazzling and devilish violin will be giving a series of concerts in Warsaw. "Paganini", the boys cry out enthusiastically tossing pages of the letter all over the cabin flying off the coach.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Konstanze," says Fryderyk with emotion in his voice. "Konstanze is with her confidant." As they enter the hall, the lights are dimmed and Paganini starts playing. The room is packed, overflowing with people. People are sitting in the alleys, backing all the exits. Frederyk's box is facing Konstanze's side-by-side with her officer. The orchestra keeps playing as Paganini waits his part and and watches Konstanze's profile.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"I wish I could have her in my arms, if only once," he whispers to Titus. Suddenly the orchestra stops and Paganini performs a long coda to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Marveille </i>that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">c</i>omes out like a streak of lightning. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Your playing should always be lighter than that of an amateur," he says. "This seventeen-forty-three Amati," he says, "was given to me by someone who appreciated music like all those folks out there," he nods with a raspy voice, "and this man was an amateur who saved me ... ," he says. "Just listen", he says as he strokes several powerful chords with his bow. "Listen and you'll know the secret..." he looks at him straight, "you'll know the key to the secret power of music" he says.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"I could arrange a concert for us," he exalts jumping off the chair. "I will teach you my secrets of the piano -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>free of charge!"<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Your offer is very generous," Fryderyk smiles knowingly. "While I accept your invitation to play at the concert, I'll have to think about taking lessons," he says, but Kalkbrenner does not listen. They begin to play a duet improving as two lifelong friends having the best time of their lives.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Excellent " exclaims Rossini obviously delighted to hear this. "Ce l'abbiamo fatta per miracolo," he says nonchalantly as Liszt sits down at the piano again and plays several loud passages up and down the keyboard. He begins with Chopin's own <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Black Keys </i>etude and then gracefully exits with Chopin's <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chanson de l'Adieu </i>followed by his own spectacular <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">God Save the Queen </i>improvisation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The orchestra begins, delicately playing the sweet opening passages of Chopin's <i>Piano Concerto in e-minor</i>, then the sound of the concert grand enters, bold, rich, powerful, full of flavor, with Chopin's precise, magical touch and melody sounding as if it came from heaven, with the audience absorbing every note as if this was the last grasp of air left for them breathe with Chopin sitting at the piano performing at this best. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“I accept" says Chopin smiling at his sudden change of fortune. "If my f-minor Concerto is acceptable." But of course," smiles Pleyel. "Yes ... the entire repertoire, not just the concerto. You'll be playing to full house again, and by the way," he adds as they are about to leave. "Wagner is here. He'd like to meet you. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"You don't understand," says Chopin. "I don't belong here. Paris is not really for me... Everybody wants me to perform and improvise and I am not even a performer. I don't even like to perform. Besides, the choice of music they are playing is completely detestable to me. Paris is just not the place for me. I am leaving. I can't stand it here. I'm going to Vienna, or Dresden and then back to Poland when things clear up." Valentin listens and looks at Chopin carefully. He understands immediately. "Give yourself some time," he says. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">They order another cafe and Chopin does not seem to calm down. "What you don't understand is that I don't have that much time...<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My father hasn't sent me any money lately, and everything I've made from the concert is gone. I have no way of supporting myself and this whole thing of me being here in Paris is just a big misunderstanding," he says.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"This is what your friend Robert Schumann writes about you," says Valenti. "Glory to Chopin who took his genius straight to the capital of the world where he can freely create and get angry. If the current shrewd and powerful monarch of Poland knew whom he had as opponent, he would not allow playing of his music in public because the works of Chopin are guns disguised in flowers."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The soiree is exceptional and Prince Valentin loses no time whispering the right words to everyone about Chopin and about his material and mental disposition. When he is invited to play everyone knows that from this moment his future will be assured because he will be helped and his recital is magnificent. He plays with such grace and such range of emotions and expressiveness, with so much pain, sorrow, sadness and happiness at the same time, with such indescribable range of expression, with music is so brilliant and so powerful that the listeners are on their knees, listening in a trance.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Will you be willing to teach our daughters Monsieur Chopin?" the Baroness proposes, and as Frederyk consents Mme. de Rothschild scribbles names and addresses of his many new pupils on her notepad.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"I am not asking," continues Sand, "if he loves her, or if she loves him. I'm not asking if she loves him less than me, or more, but judging from what's happening in me, I know more or less what's happening in him. I'm asking, so that I know, which one of us he should abandon for his own peace, for his own happiness, for his own life which seems too fragile and too weak to resist great suffering. </span><br />
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I do not want to play an evil spirit if his soul cannot love two different persons, in two different ways, and if the eight days I spent with him are to take away his happiness for the rest of his life, in this case I swear to you I will try to forget him now and forever, " writes Sand.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Two houses down the street Sand takes her apartment to allow him privacy and peace for his work. One day a musician, Joseph Brzowski carrying letters from Poland from his parents arrives at Chopin's apartment and greeted by the butler he is told to wait as Monsieur Chopin is finishing his lesson. When Frederic sees him he immediately recognizes him at once and says: "Come Joseph... see my student," he smiles. "She's a great looking countess," he says proudly. The girl is indeed very beautiful, and as soon as Mr. Brzowski and realizes she is being admired for her grace she hurries to her governess and they prepare to leave.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The presence of his friends, the voluminous correspondence from his parents, arrival of his old friend from Poland puts Chopin in superb mood and he gives them an astounding recital. Auguste Franchomme plays the cello, then they perform together in one of the most exquisite moments at Chopin's home beginning with morning lessons, and spending time with his friends, giving recitals and composing.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"Absolutely! I totally agree" responds Franchomme enthusiastically. "When you listen to Chopin you'll understand very quickly that he does not sacrifice himself to fashion, or commercialism. He never bends to the whims of bad taste to become rich, or famous. He's a born pianist of the highest-caliber, a perfect, born virtuoso. He composes for himself and plays for himself and what he plays and composes the world listens to with complete amazement and unrestrained enchantment." "Can I put this in writing," asks L'Escudier. "Yes," says Franchomme.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Few days after the wedding a fight erupts between Maurice, Solange's brother and Clesinger who assaults Maurice with a hammer with intent to strike him and as Sand stands between them, Maurice grabs a pistol and fires a shot. Friends and servant intervene as the fight erupts and miraculously everybody gets out of it alive. Completely enraged, Sand tells them to leave the house immediately and never come back, and Solange rushes off to Paris with her newly wed husband Clesinger convincing Chopin that her mother is against them.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The Scottish castle makes great first impression on Chopin. It is an old manor with eight feet thick walls with great galleries and corridors on all sides filled with the ancient, ancestral portraits and costumes of the Scots. His room has a view on the town of Stirling, and on Glasgow with beautiful mountains, and enormous, tree lined lawns with the most brilliant sky he has ever seen.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In Glasgow he gives another concert at the Merchants Hall, while Jane and Lady Erskine do not rest taking him on continuous rounds of visits to their families and friends. Chopin does not refuse, but the trip, and the constant family visits and gatherings with continuous visits, concerts and recitals begin to take their toll on his health. On his way to Edinburgh he gives another concert at the Hamilton Palace as the guest of honor of Duke and Duchess of Hamilton. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"The secret is in the internal logic that governs the harmony and counterpoint," says Chopin. "It's in the hidden pulse that's within the music, like the blood that's pumping in our veins," he says. <span class="Apple-style-span">"Understanding the fugue is the key. The fugue is pure logic. If you can master the fugue you will master the elements of all causes and effects in music, as in it are contained all the causes and effects of the universe within it," he says.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">"What about Beethoven," asks Delacroix. "Beethoven .... " shrugs Frederick. "Beethoven is inconsistent, and it's not because of his wild originality," he says. "It's because he ignores the rules. Mozart never does that! Every moment of his music has its own line that is in complete harmony with other parts, blending and following it flawlessly," he says. "That's why he's Mozart...." he says.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Several times she stops halfway, then starts over again while Chopin listens careful to the last sounds of music of this world with extreme concentration, and as if in a prayer utters his last breath. "Mother ..," he gasps his last words as Solange and Delfine cry uncontrollably. Gutman, his childhood friend holding his head straight quickly wipes his forehead. The doctor leans over and asks him if he is suffering. "No more.." Chopin speaks barely, but audibly and closes his eyes. At two in the morning Louise drops on her knees. "Oh my God, he's already gone," she sobs.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is a celebration of life and death equally as the voices of the choir raise up and mix among the walls of the church in a massive avalanche of sound, in a cry of desperation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The pall is carried by Delacroix, Franchomme, Gutman and Czartoryski as they first stand and proceed slowly on the steps of the church. The entire city of Paris is saying farewell. From the church <i>La Madeleine</i> the procession makes its way along the Grand Boulevards to the cemetery at <i>Pere-Lachaise</i>. At graveside the crowd watches silently as Chopin's body is laid in his grave and then disperses quietly. No speech is made. No words are necessary.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>PARIS 2012. </b><b>Finale</b>. It is springtime. Two people sit on the staircase of the church <i>La Madeleine</i>. They look like tourists or just visiting the church - a grand-father and his grandson. The grand father is in his late-seventies, but still in excellent physical form and the grandson is twelve years old. The street is crowded, traffic jams, cars blocking everywhere honking their horns. <span class="Apple-style-span">The grand-father takes a snapshot from the steps of the church. "Grandpa ... ," says the boy. "Can I play like Chopin," he asks. The visitor smiles. "Who knows", he says. "This is something you need to decide yourself," he says. "What ever happened to Rachmaninoff," asks the child. "Oh," says the grandfather, "he died in Los Angeles several years after I saw him at his home," he says. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span">LISZT & CHOPIN IN PARIS</span></span></span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> is the title of a dramatic motion picture conceived, written and currently</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> being developed by John Mark.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Two young, amazing composers take over 19</span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span">th</span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> Century Paris with their enormous talent and charisma. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span">The story depicts in dramatic manner a true, actual account of the musical genius of Franz Liszt and Frederic Chopin who capture the imagination of 19th Century Paris in the midst of Romantic Age among wars and revolutions - Liszt & Chopin In Paris</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'times new roman'; font-weight: normal;"><b>Please click on link for the FOREWORD the forthcoming book in hardcover, digital and audio edition to be released with the film here:</b></span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">This film is intended for listeners of music of Chopin and Liszt and their contemporaries all over the world. In the following pages we provide information about this historic, dramatic film and what it is meant to accomplish on many levels.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">The objective of this film project is to entertain, and not to pontificate about classical music. However, at the same time we want to present true, historically accurate picture of the Romantic Age portraying the events as they took place in this magnificent epoch with highest level of authenticity and historical integrity which more than often is not the case in films about this period.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">Life experiences of an artist, and many artists from this period teach us a lot about life and about humanity, and especially about the creative process in general. Combined with factual events of the lives of those two icons of classical music the dramatic plot surrounding their lives is quite fascinating and entertaining.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">The story of Liszt and Chopin can achieve the intense dramatic effect only when it is based on actual and accurate facts, not on gossip, over-dramatizing, over-romanticizing and over-sentimentalizing - an approach that has been tried many times before about the lives of great classical composers.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">A thoroughly authentic and serious dramatic film can provide well-deserved enjoyment for many years to come and give us insight into the lives of those two great artists who are admired all over the world, while the authentic look and feel of the project can allow the audiences to better appreciate the timeless and magnificent works recorded in surround sound that will be presented in movie theaters worldwide and on DVD.</span></span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">LISZT & CHOPIN IN PARIS</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> is the story about the creative genius. It portrays the creative process of two artists in the context of great historical epoch. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">The story portrays how both Liszt and Chopin not only made their careers in a city essentially alien to them, but how they created their masterpieces in face of adversity as we watch their creative genius at work with young Liszt and Chopin taking the center stage.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">The action is set between two Revolutions of 1830 and 1848 in the heart of Romantic Age that has provided us with so much inspiration and enchantment over the years, at times of turbulent political change in Europe that lead humanity into the twentieth and twenty first centuries today.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">True piano playing beings with Chopin. Mozart and Clementi put it on the map, but it is Chopin who raised it to the level that has never been equaled until today. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">Chopin was the </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">god of the piano</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">. Franz Liszt was the other </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">god of the piano,</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> as well as the creative genius who defined the age and the epoch. Produced on the highest level, with the best piano playing in the world this film will allow audiences to experience these two greatest virtuosi as they truly were, along with the cast of the entire Romantic epoch along with their closest friends and rivals in the Romantic Age.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">On every bookshelf, in every city in any language there are countless volumes of books written about Chopin’s and Liszt's life everywhere. There are even books describing books written about Chopin and their contemporaries, while the amount of Chopin’s and Liszt's societies, foundations, museums, cultural centers, festivals and exhibitions supporting their music for over hundred and fifty years worldwide would be difficult to estimate – Chopin’s and Liszt's popularity are continuously growing around the world.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> This year we are celebrating the Bicentennial - the 200th Anniversary of Chopin’s birth all over the world recognizing Chopin's amazing genius, and fully realizing that until today Chopin has no successor. A serious piano recital without Chopin's compositions would be unthinkable today, and judging by the amount of Liszt societies, books written about him, and fan clubs dedicated to him all over the world Franz Liszt is not very far behind Chopin.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">The action of this film takes place in the great era of </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">Sturm und Drang</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">, it’s the time of Napoleon’s triumps, the end of French monarchy, the birth of democracy in the glorious days of liberated Paris of Louis Philippe, the Citizen King.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">Please see this link with short preview of a book of the same time title with full historical background about the Romantic Age and this magnificent epoch</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><b><a href="http://johnmarkjournal.blogspot.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666;">http://johnmarkjournal.blogspot.com/</span></a></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><b>Please click on link for historical background about this film project above.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #0000ee; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422616377107384786" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vkQ4a7a-d4w/S0EA3V6zidI/AAAAAAAAALk/R-K4SYkOZHU/s400/Chopin-Plays-in-Hotel-Lambe.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 192px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 400px;" /></span></span></span></span></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span">Chopin improvises at a Ball in Hotel Lambert on Ile St. Louis in Paris</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> The character of the Romantic Age leaves deep and unmistakable impression on every artist’s mind. For young Chopin who arrives <span class="Apple-style-span">in the great </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span">City of Lights</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"> at twenty one, without knowing anyone and trying to make a name for himself in the music world, the high-end Paris culture is the stage where excels even though where there were more virtuoso pianists in Paris at that time than taxi drivers in New York, or London today.</span></span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">For young Liszt, <i>the virtuoso of virtuosi </i>the atmosphere of the Romantic era helps him find himself and bring forth his stardom, as he creates a mega name for himself. Both Chopin and Liszt are well aware of the fact that their work could bring on their immortality, and they fiercely compete to that end among each other and with their rivals and peers. Their competitive spirit will be vividly portrayed in both the book and the dramatic film. </span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #0000ee; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442316821485840386" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vkQ4a7a-d4w/S4b-UIPL6AI/AAAAAAAAAM8/Lz_JoVqVOSM/s400/Franz-Liszt---Charcoal.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 326px;" /></span></span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Franz Liszt - charcoal drawing (c. 1830)</b></span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">We could give this film</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">a poetic title - </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">magical or magnificent moments - as Liszt, Chopin, Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Verdi, Rossini, Paganini, Bellini, Wagner and other musical giants portrayed in this film re-creating amazing masterpieces and the legacy of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, taking it to new heights of expression, transforming with music and the arts in general along with Goya, Ingress, Delacroix, Daumier, Constable, David, Turner and Courbert in painting, Pushkin, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Potoefi – (Liszt's compatriot) in literature, and of course Liszt & Chopin breaking new grounds in music conquering the artistic world in</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> City of Lights</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> between 1830 and 1849.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">While Cooper, Poe and Melville were creating great classics in American literature,</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> Dickens, Austen, Thackeray, Browning,Wordsworth, Coleridge and Scott in England - Hugo, Balzac, Goethe, Byron, Dumas, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Musset, Gautier, Vigny in continental Europe those are the forces driving the story as are the magnificent moments of the drama of the lives of Liszt and Chopin and their careers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> Leo Tolstoy – the Russian writer</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">and author of “War & Peace” who loved Chopin’s music and ranked it at the top of all music compared Chopin's audience to a mountain. At the bottom, as Tolstoy describes Chopin's audiences are huge, massive audiences everywhere in the world, people who simply love and adore Chopin’s music and enjoy listening him constantly – then, there are audiences in the middle of the mountain who also like to listen to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms, and then finally, at the top there is an artist, or a composer who completely understands the power of Chopin's music and who is capable to express its profound effect on the human soul.</span></span></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span">Chopin's home in Poland circa 1829 before he left Warsaw to Paris</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> “Chopin’s music” - writes the great piano legend Arthur Rubinstein, “conquers such diverse audiences. When the first notes sound through the concert hall there is instantly a happy sign of recognition. All over the world, men and women know his music. They love it, they are moved by it, yet it is not Romantic music in the <i>Byronic</i> sense, although it takes place in the romantic period, this music takes places right in the heart. It is expressive, and personal, and yet it is still pure art. Even in this abstract and diverse age where emotions are not “fashionable” Chopin endures. His music is the universal language of human consciousness and human communication. He speaks directly to the hearts of the people.”</span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">LISZT & CHOPIN IN PARIS is also the story of the piano, it's the story of classical music and the arts in the greatest period humanity ever lived – <i>The Romantic Age, </i>and the biggest stars is in effect are the timeless compositions of Liszt & Chopin and their contemporaries. Already pre-recorded with the most advanced, technology available today the sound comes directly at the audience with a taste of what is yet to come in its final, post-production version when the film is released.</span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">The drama of this great project is both riveting and beautiful. It is also a beautifully told story about riveting social forces that dominate those artists lives and ultimately devour them, but also propel them to immortality.</span></span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>The Romantic Age</i> is the birth of democracy, the age of the gallantry </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">where chivalrous attention and courtliness toward women with the air of faintly mocking behavior were encouraged, where true romance was defined by both the intensity of emotions and the volumes of beautiful women one was able to conquer. But it was also the world of social and political strife and injustice, and those two essentially conflicting, opposing forces were both the main expression and the great contribution to the Romantics – from Chopin to Byron, to Keats, to Rimbaud, from Hugo, to Berlioz, to Paganini away from the preordained, classical tradition of Bach and Mozart.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> We wonder how the same forces still shape us in the twenty first century, and how they swept us into such wide polarities, even being sharper, and starker today and at times a lot more shocking than even the Romantics such as Liszt and Chopin could ever imagine, or would be willing to accept, but their quest, their spirit and their struggle reflects our strife and struggle in very much the same way today. Perhaps this is the reason why Chopin’s music so frequently sounds as if it were composed today, and perhaps why it is so personal and sounds so direct and contemporary, so close to our hearts and inner feelings, as if were were to taste a form of pure art originating straight from the heart.</span></span></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">In this film the latest technology and visual special effects will be used to visualize, design and create magnificent scenes, and record magnificent musical snapshots in spectacular surroundings with breathtaking performances by major American movie stars and genius music performers who will allow us to relive those magnificent, magical moments that gave rise to contemporary arts, literature and music on such unprecedented scale - a form of pure, ultimate art that so many of us still live through until today, many of us every day and throughout our lives.</span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> Because of the enormous global and universal appeal of this music around the world to audiences from all cultures and nationalities, this film project will integrate technological content, software, electronics and distribution worldwide </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">across media and social media involving many generations and nationalities on a global scale.</span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> This fast moving, action-driven drama and high-level, character-driven story provides the historical setting of magnificent proportions, mesmerizing characters with incomparable seduction and appeal and incredible charisma to audiences across all ranges, ages and nationalities. A powerfully told, magnificently recorded soundtrack performed by the world’s greatest perfomers will accompany the release of this film along with international concerts to follow by world’s greatest orchestras and musicians all over the world.</span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">THE PLOT</span></span></b></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">The plot of this film begins with the lead character of Franz Liszt attempting to read the music score written by young Chopin who just arrived from Warsaw via Stuttgart looking to find a place for himself in revolutionary Paris. Young Liszt, frustrated with </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">fast progressions and sounds cascading from Chopin’s score as if from the sky and not able to play it </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">prima vista</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">, at first sight, but tremendously impressed and striving hard not</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">to show it to </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">asks Chopin – “Please, play this for us…” and as Chopin plays crystal clear passages of his “Winter Wind” etude the scene takes us into the heart of the City of Lights – </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">Paris 1830,</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> the world capital of music and Romanticism in its full bloom.</span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> The drama of this film deals with two periods of Chopin’s life, his youth in Warsaw until he was 20-years old and his adulthood when he left to Vienna, a trip he was never to return from to his native land forced by the political upheavals in Eastern Europe, and the second highly dramatic period as Chopin lived in Paris with his friends until his tragic death in 1840.</span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> At first we begin with a Bergmanesque-like sort of sequence reminding us of “Fanny and Alexander”</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">as we enter the magical world of Canaletto's in 19</span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">th</span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> Century Warsaw where the famous violin virtuoso Nicolo Paganini arrives with his famous </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">Amati </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">violin (he calls it a “cannon”) and in his charismatic performance sends musical bullets from the stage sending everyone into absolutely frenzy – an encounter that leaves an indelible impression on young Chopin now seriously thinking about leaving Warsaw and starting a professional career in the Western world.</span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> In the second Act as Chopin tries to make a living in Paris, and as Chopin’s life is shown intricately tied in with the life of his peers, e.g. Liszt, Schumann, Paganini, Wagner, Rossini, Mendelsoh, Berlioz, Sand, Malebranche and many others who all search for the same thing – <i>immortality</i>, we finally dispel the “Chopin myth” and the myth of The Romantic Age that has plagued cinema and literature for so many years and instead portray the authentic characters as they lived and struggled on their quest.</span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> Arthur Rubinstein described this myth best when he stated: “I heard quite a bit of Chopin’s beloved repertoire in my life, during my childhood in Poland, and now as adult – </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">mazurkas</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">, </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">polonaises</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">, </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">nocturnes</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">, </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">etudes</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">, </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">scherzos</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">, </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">preludes</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> and the two, indescribably beautiful </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">piano concerti</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> – and all of them are played interminably badly. And why badly? Because in those days, as they believe now both musicians and the public believe in the "Chopin myth", as many still believe it today... <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">This myth is a destructive one where Chopin, the Man is seen as weak and ineffectual, and Chopin, the Artist is seen as an irrepressible romantic, effeminate, yet impulsive, abusive, a </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">moral vampire</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> so to speak yet writing perfect music dipping his pen in moonlight to compose his nocturnes for sentimental young women, whereas nothing is further from the truth either about the Man, or about the Artist, and pianists whose heads are filled with this nonsense are playing Chopin badly…”</span></span></span></span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">Even today, in twenty first century, there are still books being published about Chopin describing him as </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span">Raphaelesque</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span">, effiminate figure,</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">or an impulsive, tainted genius dipping his pen in the moonlight while world renowned pianists still strike their keys as if they were silver bells by the lake, with a sled pulled by a raindeer.</span></span></span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span">The film</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></span></b><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">is going to put an end to the myth. It will </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">portray the true Chopin, the true Liszt, as they really were, and the true Romantic Age as it were, and the music will be performed as it was played by them in Paris - powerful, electrifying, thundering, literally bringing the house down, connecting the energy of the Universe fused and fueled together by the entire range of the emotions and human experiences with the true essence of the <i>Sturm und</i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i> </i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i>Drang</i> during the Romantic Age with unspeakable courage, power, masculinity and beauty beyond equal.</span></span></span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: normal;"><i>Chopin circa 1849 </i></span></span></span></span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">This film is the authentic project about the Romantic Era. It's on par with </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">Titanic</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">Gone with the Wind </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">and </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">Amadeus</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> in terms of its authenticity and dramatic appeal intended for contemporary times and for posterity. </span></span></span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">We all remember </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">Titanic</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> that made over a billion dollars in the box office rapidly, and the reason for </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">Titanic</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">’</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">s </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">enormous popularity was the historic base of the film, like this film one with a love story that made audiences from all over the world come back to see it over and over again repeated amounts of times. </span></span></span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">The love story between George Sand and Frederic Chopin is the most celebrated of all love stories of all time, along with Romeo and Juliet</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">. </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">Until now their love story has never been truly and adequately portrayed in any film.</span></span></span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">The drama of this story</span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">is amazing, and with it the continuous rivalry, support and friendship between</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">young Liszt and </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">Chopin, taking place at the highest level, both at the top of their game who are taking audiences on continual journey of excitement and stimulation in this film with a kind of charisma never portrayed in any film before. </span></span></span></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">THE CHARACTERS</span></span></b></span></div>
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<i><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">The characters of Liszt and Chopin driven by their creative, intellectual, social, emotional and sexual forces is a perfect venue for Hollywood’s greatest actors to deliver the ultimate entertainment specifically</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">appealing to the story’s biggest audience – American, European and Asian markets making this film potentially an all-time favorite.</span></span></span></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> The dynamic characters and stardom of Liszt and Chopin are central to a broad circle of friends who created and defined this sexy, amazingly creative period - the Romantic era, a time of unsurpassed passion in art, thought, politics, culture, literature and love all intertwined together into powerful, fast-moving, heart breaking drama of the lives of these two heros unfolding before us exactly as they were and as we watch them being loved, hated, worshipped and destroyed just like the women who were in love with them. </span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">THE MILIEU</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">This is </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">the </span>milieu</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> – for women it’s the playground of princesses, poets, pianists, and prostitutes - the women in this story who are uncommon in their gifts and who are brilliant, beautiful, temperamental and wholly dedicated to the new social order that they worship, and the social order that ultimately destroys them as they tear Liszt’s and Chopin’s hearts out and theirs, as well that neither love, nor passion could satisfy. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">Young Liszt </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">and Chopin took up with some of the most fascinating females of all time, so stunning and brilliant and many so smart, powerful, rich and creative that they sold out theaters in countries whose languages they could not speak.</span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; color: #0000ee; font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: normal;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422634957215908402" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_vkQ4a7a-d4w/S0ERw2N4QjI/AAAAAAAAAMM/sDfQNKPIGqY/s400/Album+for+Liszt+%26+Chopin+In+Paris+-+preamble.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 321px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; text-align: justify; width: 400px;" /></span></span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman'; line-height: 18px;"><i>Special Anniversary Album recorded by John Mark with select works by Liszt & Chopin </i></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><b><a href="http://www.ilike.com/artist/JOHN+MARK+LCIP"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;">http://www.ilike.com/artist/JOHN+MARK+LCIP</span></a></b></i></span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;">Liszt & Chopin In Paris</span> </i></span>is a beautiful, fascinating, sexy, high-concept project that can be driving and at the same time is being driven by a solidly conceived structure of aligned marketing mechanisms all of which include the latest in information technology combined with the kind of entertainment that interacts supremely well with today’s best entertainment, social-media and cutting-edge production talent.</span></span></span></span></o:p></span></b></span></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">Dramatic feature films such as these encompassing glorious and complex subject matters can work miracles and will rival </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">Titanic</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">, </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">Amadeus</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">, </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">Casablanca</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">, and </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">Gone with the Wind</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> – if done with the equal parts of creativity, passion, intelligence, knowledge and intensity.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">This film spans two revolutionary decades during which those two amazing composer-performers, themselves refugees from war-torn countries have worked, lived and loved. The story and the production</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> promises to deliver to audiences total immersion in entertainment, music and cultural experiences on a level that has never been before in contemporary cinema that will be talked about and enjoyed for many decades to come.</span></span></span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">LOCATIONS</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">Paris-London-Vienna-Berlin-Warsaw-Luzerne-Cologne-Dusseldorg-Leipzig-Nice-Majorca-Edinburgh and other European locations. Post-Production: London and Los Angeles.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">John Mark will complete final draft of the screenplay, as well as the shooting script for this project, and upon completion he will also prepare detailed production budget for production with required production dates and locations both in US and Europe, along with complete schedule for pre-production, production and post-production stages of the film according </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">the highest standards and objectives of this highly unique and historic project. </span></span></span><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 27px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY</span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">Motion picture industry today consists of two principal activities: production, which involves the development, financing, and production of feature-length motion pictures; and distribution, which involves the promotion and exploitation of feature-length motion pictures in a variety of media, including theatrical exhibition, home video, television, hotel chains, syndication of other ancillary markets, both domestic and international and merchandise. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">The United States motion picture industry is dominated by the “major” studios, including The Walt Disney Company, Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers, Universal Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Columbia/Tri-Star Pictures, and United Artists. The major studios are typically parts of large diversified corporations and/or conglomerates that have strong relationships with creative talent, exhibitors, and others involved in the entertainment industry and whose non-motion picture operations provide a stable source of earnings and cash flow which offset the variations in the financial performance of their new motion picture releases and other aspects of their motion picture operations. Often vertically and horizontally integrated with affiliated entities outside the motion picture industry, major studios often absorb losses that enhance profits of affiliates. The major studios have historically produced and distributed the vast majority of high-grossing theatrical motion pictures released annually in the United States.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span">FILM FESTIVALS & ACADEMY AWARDS NOMINATION</span></b></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">At the time this film is released by the major studios have become more expensive, currently with average budgets exceeding $60 million (before marketing), lower budget “independent films” have successfully entered the market. Typically, such films are more character driven than plot driven, and originally they lacked major stars. Miramax, originally an independent distributor (now owned by Disney), broke ground in this area with such films. However, these days most nearly all or most theatrical films are produced indepedently with studios providing P&R and distribution at later stages worldwide.</span></span></span></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> A substantial portion of a motion picture’s ultimate revenues is generated in the initial distribution cycle (generally the first 2-3 years after the film’s initial domestic theatrical release). Commercially, successful motion pictures may continue to generate revenues after the motion picture’s initial distribution cycle from the re-licensing of distribution rights in certain media, including theatrical stage, television and home video, and from the licensing of distribution rights with respect to all new media and technologies, consequently revenues can and will continue to flow for many years.</span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">Many highly successful films were launched at major film festivals. Film festivals are now the established platform for introducing independent films, and although </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span">this is a highly</span><b><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></b></span></span></span><span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span">is a commercial, mainstream project, the film will be introduced at many major film festivals as it will quickly gain</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span"> word-of-mouth acceptance and advertising before its global release by a major studio, or studios in collaboration with the production company.</span></span></span></span></div>
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JOHN MARKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05718043355245991276noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182738136141754803.post-66416896450527041222009-11-21T07:23:00.001-08:002014-05-03T13:32:56.264-07:00LISZT & CHOPIN IN PARIS IS A STORY ABOUT THE GREATEST EPOCH IN HUMANITY <div style="text-align: center;">
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Modern piano playing begins with Liszt and Chopin. Mozart and Clementi put it on the map, but it is Liszt and Chopin who raised piano playing to a level that until today have never been equaled.<br />
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Soon to be produced as a major theatrical motion picture, this film showcases the greatest performances by Liszt and Chopin and their contemporaries, exactly as those performances were played during the unforgettable Romantic Age in Paris.<br />
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In this story we will hear in surround sound the greatest masterpieces written and performed by these two young composers, their contemporaries as well as their followers in what is the foundation of the most extraordinary and spectacular music material ever heard and recorded in a major motion picture.</div>
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Many of the pre-recorded selections represent scenes from the script beginning with young Chopin arriving in Paris for the first time at age 21. At this stage Chopin is in love with a beautiful girl, Maria (Maria Wodzinska) from Warsaw, whose parents forbid her to marry him.</div>
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Confiding his sorrows to Liszt, his friend and admirer, and looking to find solace in his music, Chopin decides to work in Paris until Maria's parents change their mind about the marriage. Liszt, his confidant, friends and rival understands Chopin's sorrow having himself plenty of romantic troubles with Countess Marie d'Agoult.</div>
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However, young Liszt’s view of love is somewhat different from Chopin's having enjoyed phenomenal celebrity status as the greatest performer in Paris already, with women following him everywhere, consequently Liszt tries to convince Chopin that he should explore Paris with him, and not worry about Maria which they do, with Liszt ultimately taking it over.</div>
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Meanwhile, Chopin's singing, bel canto style of playing is earning him fame earned as the Raphael of the Piano. His brilliant improvisations have their origin straight from the Italian opera, specifically from Bellini, Bach and Mozart whom Chopin very much admired, and later from Rossini, with whom he kept in regular contact in Paris.</div>
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In fact, when Rossini bought a spectacular mansion in Passy, just outside Paris, Chopin was there frequently and gave regular recitals there at Rossini's' famous <i>soirees musicales</i>.</div>
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The salon was Liszt's and Chopin's favorite milieu. They enjoyed playing in the salon as a welcome change from the concert stage. In the salons and the concert halls, their works were played with much more passion, emotion and intimacy than they were performed in the concert halls. Liszt and Chopin frequently noted lower tempos for their compositions, i.e. to perform them slower, as they realized that no one else besides them could play them the way they did.</div>
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On these recordings, we will hear Liszt's and Chopin's works exactly as they played and improvised in the crowded, elegant improvising salons of Paris. This story will take us to the heart of Paris and allow us to hear and experience the most beautiful and power ful performances ever created by these two greatest musical legends of classical piano.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">You can listen to a preview of the music that will be featured in </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Liszt & Chopin In Paris </span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">at the following link:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.lisztandchopininparis.com/">http://www.lisztandchopininparis.com/</a></span><br />
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JOHN MARKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05718043355245991276noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182738136141754803.post-19611772178820104302009-11-21T07:22:00.001-08:002019-07-06T02:02:41.046-07:00WHY MAKE AN EPIC ABOUT LISZT & CHOPIN<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span">There are several great reasons to make such a great film</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">:</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span">One is that movie theaters can be used for other than potboiler type of movies we see every week in theaters and instead deliver the ultimate classical music concert on the highest level to millions of fans of classical music, and especially Chopin and Liszt who are so popular around the world.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Two is that it's the greatest love story ever told, as great as the love story portrayed by Shakespeare in </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Romeo and Juliet</b> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span">equally exciting and literary in equally exciting period of time that we all love and admire.</span></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Third is that </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Liszt & Chopin In Paris</b> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">is a sequel to two great movies that were already made and that were immensely popular in the 50’s and 60’s. The first one was </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Song To Remember</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"> directed by George Cukor with Cornell Wilde and it was about Chopin. The other was about Franz Liszt - starring Dirk Bogarde and Capucine and it was called <i><b>Song Without End</b></i>.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">Both films were enormous hits during their day. Now, imagine a high-end </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Liszt & Chopin In Paris</b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"> today with the best recording techniques, our amazing, superb talent, best costumes, best special effects, best technology, best director and the greatest stars in supporting roles bringing us inside and to the heart of the Romantic Age.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span">But at the same time this is not </span><span class="Apple-style-span">like those films at all - both</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">Chopin and Liszt are in the twenties literall, they are superstars and act more like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and both take the City of Paris over with their amazing talent with a little help of their friends - Nicolo Paganini, Camile Pleyel and many others.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Last time we heard classical piano and classical piano music performed like that was during the time of of Cortot and Hoffman. Unfortunately, no one can play like that today and the amazing virtuosity of Liszt and Chopin must come across as if the music was truly performed by young Liszt, and young Chopin not recorded by someone else. The recordings must also express the enigmatic poetry of the piano by Chopin, and the incredible virtuosity of Liszt.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span">This story is also steeped as an incredible and devouring epic about Liszt's powerful personality and about his friendship and their rivalry, in Chopin's trials and successes in the greatest city on Earth, the City of Lights in the most amazing period of time - The Romantic Age.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span">This is also a true story, about two greatest musicians that ever lived, with the greatest music every recorded for cinema. That's why filmmakers will always come back to this subject over and over again - until someone makes a true masterpieces about this period, about their lives and records the music that sounds like they were playing it.</span></span></span></div>
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";">This was the first film about Chopin directed by George Cukor right after WWII called </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";">Song To Remember <span class="Apple-style-span">and it was highly popular.</span></span></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: black;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><i>Liszt & Chopin In Paris</i></b> is the synthesis of the above two films into one incredibly dynamic story utilizing state of the art technology in recording the music as if it was truly performed by Chopin and Liszt as if they played it.</span></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span">The music pre-recorded by <b>John Mark</b> for </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Liszt & Chopin In Paris </b>- </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">4th CD entitled "Magical Moments" from <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">150th Anniversary Box-Set </span>(Chopin's death in 1849) features all the selections for the film. </span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span">The soundtrack is a pre-amble demo to final release. The CD's were actually sold for very limited time online by Universal Studios via Universal Music Group (UMG) and immediately got tremendous amount of attention.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times new roman";"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">The recording was produced as a preamble to get an idea of the multitude of selections featured in the script for<b> </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><b>Liszt & Chopin In Paris</b>, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">but it was</span> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">an amazing </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span">tour de force </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span">featuring one the best recordings ever made for a motion picture. </span></span></span><br />
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JOHN MARKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05718043355245991276noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182738136141754803.post-39621752921122271272009-11-21T07:18:00.001-08:002015-07-24T10:00:28.523-07:00LISZT & CHOPIN IN PARIS - A FILM ABOUT THE GREATEST EPOCH OF HUMANITY<div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family: georgia;">Liszt and Chopin were the superstars of classical music. They created and pioneered modern piano playing and concert giving that influenced music making, classical and popular and still influences and inspires today millions of people around the world. </span><span style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family: georgia;">These two greatest musical superstars of their era, Liszt in particular have pioneered the glamorous concert tour - the recital, playing from memory, even having an agent taking the status of the pianist to the level of superstar celebrity.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family: georgia;">Franz Liszt who thoroughly enjoyed his celebrity and whose Bicentennial is celebrated this year, he was born on October 22, 1811 and Chopin who's Bicentennial was celebrated last year , Chopin was born on March 1st, 1810 are both widely recognized with international culture hero status.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; font-family: georgia;">Like the pop giants of the present, Liszt and Chopin were entangled both mind, hearts and bodies with a myriad of other legendary figures, the Parisian literary scene, the writers, artists, actresses, nobility and other legendary composers-performers of their time. Both Liszt and Chopin were central to their amazing circle of friends that created and define the early Romantic Era, a time of unsurpassed passion in the arts and thought, politics and culture, literature and love that we all cherish as our most inspiring ideals today.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">The women surrounding Liszt and Chopin </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">were amazing actresses, writers or pianists themselves uncommon in their gifts, beautiful, brilliant temperamental, and wholly dedicated to the new social order and artistic ideas of their men whom the they both loved, hated, worshiped and destroyed.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">One of the most famous examples who wrote under a pen name was Chopin's muse George Sand. Together they tore each other's hearts out with passions so great that neither art nor love itself could satisfy them, and so characteristic of the Romantic Age. For his part, the dashing Liszt took up with some of the fascinating females of the day, from royals so rich they owned half of countries to actresses and opera singer so stunning they sold out theaters in countries whose language they could not even understand.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">Written by John Mark, who himself was educated as a classical musician and music performer, who is also an outstanding filmmaker and writer of <b>Liszt & Chopin In Paris</b> paints a sweeping picture of this era of change, hope, defeat and victory.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">It is 1831 and we are in 19th Century Paris approximately hundred eighty years ago, just before the Industrial Revolution in a brief period of time that gave birth to democracy and the arts on unprecedent scale known as the Romantic Age.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">Unable return to Warsaw, where he was born and grew up with his musical family due to revolution that precludes him from going back, Chopin after long deliberations decides to make Paris – the capital of classical home away from his native land of Poland to which he never again returns.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">His family agrees and consents to his decision fully aware that because of young Chopin’s enormous talent it would be difficult to imagine any other place than the French capital for Chopin's genius to materialize elsewhere.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">Somewhat shy and intimidated Chopin walks across Tuileries and the Louvre, admiring the magnificent bridges of lena and Austerlitz in wonder somewhat amazed at Napoleon's legacy and thinking of his father who left France precisely because of Napoleon. But soon Chopin meets Franz Liszt who is a year younger than Chopin and already a legend in Paris - a superstar in fact at the age of nineteen.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">In addition, Liszt who is an unparalleled virtuoso and also an émigré does not expect to encounter Chopin’s towering genius and is taken aback by his powerful talent which he immediately notices and recognizes in Chopin despite the fact that there were more virtuoso pianists in Paris at that time than anywhere else in the world.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">In <b>Liszt & Chopin In Paris </b>we are re-visiting Paris</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"> at the height of the golden age of classical piano where nearly every other family in Europe owned and regularly played either an upright piano, a baby grand or a </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">concert grand</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">, and where families regularly read together, and widely and studied a great deal of literature and poetry.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">It is 1831 and Chopin stops by the Paris Conservatory where Chopin sees Franz Liszt preparing for an important concert with Alkan, another legendary pianist whose technical abilities have been compared to violin skills of Paganini.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">Backstage Liszt notices the shy young man and asks him to play. Upon hearing Chopin play for the first time Liszt suddenly realizes that his professional life as </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">the greatest virtuoso of all time</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"> has been challenged by young Chopin whose compositions are simply out of this world. This is how <b>Liszt & Chopin In Paris</b> story begins and the marvelous rivalry and friendship between young Chopin and Liszt develops into a full-blown drama.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">In the course of this story we follow the careers of these two amazing performers and pianists and their friendship and rivalry.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">In fact, Liszt and Chopin frequently noted lower tempos for their compositions, indicating to perform them slower, as they realized that no one else besides them could play them the way they did. On <b>Liszt & Chopin In Paris </b>recordings, we will hear their works exactly as Liszt and Chopin played them in the crowded, elegant salons of Paris improvising music that went on for hours, until dawn.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">The salon was Liszt’s and Chopin's favorite </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">milieu</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">. They enjoyed playing in the salon which for them was a welcome change from the formal concert stage. But despite the fact that both Liszt and Chopin preferred the improvised setting to concert halls, whether the salons or concert halls, their works were played with much more passion, emotion and intimacy than they are performed today.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">For centuries, piano playing has had a great hold on the public imagination. It would be unthinkable to imagine the world without the piano today, and the passions that accomplished piano arouses are experienced across a variety of age groups, cultures and nationalities.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">In 19th Century Europe, at the time when cars, airplanes, television, hi-fi stereo and surround sound movie theaters did not exist, the greatest piano performances often brought audiences to states of intoxication.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">With these recordings <b>Liszt & Chopin In Paris</b> film will bring this magnificent period back by portraying this fascinating epoch in the movie theater.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">In addition to superbly crafted and fascinating story centered around Liszt and Chopin and their numerous love affairs, this powerful and exciting story is <i>de facto</i> about the beginning of contemporary arts, the greatest literary, artistic and political movement that ever happened in history of human evolution and that also for the first time successfully challenged the dogma of established institutions, and gave birth to freedom of thought and the rights of the individual.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">The powerful love story of Chopin and Sand acknowledged as the most celebrated love story of all time, ever and the countless affairs of Franz Liszt along with the Liszt's notorious affairs with Countess d' Agoult, Princess Caroline, Marie-Moke Pleyel, Charlotte von Hagn and many others, as well as the story of Liszt's and Chopin's professional rivalry is told with great detail and drama accompanied by the greatest concert ever recorded bringing us the ultimate music experience for today's youth-oriented audiences in the ultimate surround sound theater.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">Combined with unparalleled piano artistry that will hold audiences spellbound for hours this film is the ultimate in Hollywood type entertainment as well as the first ever surround sound concert hall created on this scale in the movie theater.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">Along with Liszt's keyboard virtuosity, we will also hear the last words in modern piano playing in Liszt's two </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">Hungarian Rhapsodies</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"> and the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">Transcendental Etudes</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"> Liszt's twelve piano studies that till this day remain largely unapproachable by most pianists except to a handful of world-class virtuosos, and when we hear them play those works it seems that no further advances in concert piano playing are humanly possible.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">Such is the legacy of Franz Liszt and Frederick Chopin. Franz Liszt was the first modern pianist who created the concept of the recital and played his entire repertoire by heart. He was the first performing artist to be treated as a superstar and traveled with his own pianos.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">With Liszt's piano technique and his subsequent schools of followers from Thalberg to Rubinstein, to Paderewski and Moszkowski and later to Rachmaninoff, the golden age of pianism was created that remains with us still nearly two centuries later. In Liszt's piano playing we can also hear influences of a great violin virtuoso, their friend and mentor Nicolo Paganini, who was a great inspiration for both Liszt and Chopin as Paganini settled in Paris for several years after his infamous European tour in the 1830's.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">Paganini even attempted to run a gambling operation in Paris on Rue de la Chausse d'Antin, not too far from where Chopin lived and where he gave his famous master classes. In Franz Liszt's repertoire we can definitely hear and recognize the influences of Paganini's virtuosity on violin, and witness the virtuosity that Liszt so often searched for in Paganini's performances and that always made indelible impression on him.</span></div>
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JOHN MARKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05718043355245991276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182738136141754803.post-49227810951617386852009-11-21T07:12:00.000-08:002014-05-03T17:42:07.402-07:00DEATHBLOW - A POLITICAL THRILLER<div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Romanoffs were brutally murdered in 1917 at Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg on the order of revolutionaries who were nothing but propagandist and reactionaries. What happened after that was the end of Romanoff Empire, and subsequent destruction of Russia, its soul, culture and enormous wealth resulting in 70-years of communism until now.</span><br />
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The criminals who murdered them were never brought to justice. Instead, the propaganda machine in Russia made the public believe they were doing this for the cause of communist regime because the Tzar was not a good ruler and that Russians needed "bread, not royalty". As a result of those lies Russia has lost its soul and has ceased to be a monarchy. Culturally and politically Russia has dominated Eastern Europe for 700 years. Many believed that after the murder of the Romanoffs Russia had become a "stolen Empire" and the CIA-KGB-MI6 war that has ensued carried the mystery beyond WWII to Cold War and present times.<br />
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Heirs to royal Romanoff family claim that the murder was a hoax because the communists who were peasants and savages did not have the intent to murder them and have staged a hoax under the direction of Lenin and Trotsky to secretly smuggle the family out of Russia. No one really knows what happened, but that's what this movie is about when one of the heirs, a genuine Romanoff returns to claim his place in society and forces the West to cater to his wishes.<br />
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JOHN MARKhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05718043355245991276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1182738136141754803.post-34552372900053291752009-11-21T06:54:00.000-08:002014-04-26T11:14:07.866-07:00WHY GREAT MOVIES SHOULD BE PRODUCED<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">My goal is to produce a masterpiece – a movie that we will be compelled to watch over and over again because of its cultural and cinematic value - not because someone has told me it’s good, but because my films can pass the couch test - and </span><span style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;">like classical music will always provide endless hours of enjoyment, boundless energy, beauty, with unique charismatic and dramatic power.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; line-height: 18px;">Today, there are only a handful of movies like that - in a world where there’s water everywhere but few drops to drink, even though movies make millions of dollars around the world but there are very few of them around that make people happy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">More importantly <i style="font-weight: bold;">Deathblow </i>meets history - real history, and it is based on actual events an international spy war at its best, plus a great father and son story audiences will never forget.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12pt;">John Mark, writer and creator of <b>LISZT & CHOPIN IN PARIS</b> is American screenwriter and novelist with extensive scholarly background and training in classical music. He studied classical piano and music composition in Warsaw at Panstwowa Wyzsza Szkola im. Elsnera Drugiego Stopnia, ul. Swietojerska (Chopin's school and hometown) named for Prof. Jozef Elsner who taught Frédéric Chopin. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12pt;">During Chopin's time the school was referred to as the Warsaw Conservatory and is known for its legendary teachers and scholars among them Stanislaw Moniuszko, Karol Szymanowski, Ignacy Paderewski and many others<b>.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 12pt;">After leaving Warsaw to Paris at young age to study film and classical music John Mark studied with Prof. Nadia Boulanger at the Paris Conservatory, as well as film directing and cinematography at IDHEC/Paris and at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia that is part of Cinecitta studio</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small; line-height: 16px;"> </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">in Rome.</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;"> John Mark </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt;">speaks English, French, Spanish, Italian and Polish and he has received numerous letters of recognition for his contribution to classical music.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Several years ago John Mark has recorded preliminary soundtrack for </span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">LISZT & CHOPIN IN PARIS</b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> that paves way to the ultimate soundtrack soon to be produced and re-recorded with world's greatest virtuosos.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://myspace.com/johnmarkclassicalmusic" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://myspace.com/<wbr></wbr>johnmarkclassicalmusic</a></span></div>
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