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You Cannot Start Without Me
Monday, November 02, 2009
Academy Award-winning director Allan Miller’s new documentary, "You Cannot Start Without Me, Valery Gergiev Maestro," shows a year in the life of the acclaimed conductor Valery Gergiev. The film is playing at Symphony Space November 2–22.
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Even someone without any special musical knowledge can hear the difference between a Gergiev (Russian sounding) performance and any western orchestra. Compare recordings of Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings or The Nutcracker or Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet or The Nutcracker -- by Gergiev vs Bernstein/Solti/von Karajan/etc. The sound is very different -- darker and more intense.
Great feature. Gergiev has several new releases on his hall's new label. And the film speaks to a larger trend: Russian repatriation of its cultural treasures and a step-up in the arts. Gergiev's reach out also complements the good work of individuals like Viktor Vekselberg, whose Renova Group saw the pruchase of the fabrege eggs from Forbes and the repatriation of the famous Russian bells from Harvard to Moscow. Great stories of Russia-U.S. friendship and a booming arts and culture movement. More of these programs please!
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