What are the names of the pieces from the movie "The Competition"?
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I'm looking for the names of some of the more up tempo piano pieces
that were in the movie "The Competition" (starring Richard Dreyfus).
Can anybody help? If so, a follow up or an e-mail to
sburns@--NoSpam--hotmail.com would be appreciated. (remove --NoSpam--
from e-mail address)
Thanks in advance!
dsch_fan
Prokofiev's 3d was used prominently.
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Frank Eggleston
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> I'm looking for the names of some of the more up tempo piano pieces
> that were in the movie "The Competition" (starring Richard Dreyfus).
> Can anybody help? If so, a follow up or an e-mail to
> sburns@--NoSpam--hotmail.com would be appreciated. (remove --NoSpam--
> from e-mail address)
>
> Thanks in advance!
The IMDB (International Movie DataBase) lists the following works:
Ginastera: Piano Sonata
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 (played by the Peter Serkin lookalike)
Chopin: Piano Concerto (#1) in e minor (played by the Russian(?) girl)
Prokofiev: Piano Concerto #3 (Irving's second (and winning) choice)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto #5 (played by Dreyfuss)
This list is incomplete: IIRC, the following were also included:
St.Saens: Piano concerto (#2?) (played by Joe Cali, the
young Italo-American)
Dreyfuss & Irving play some 4-hand Schubert (the Fantasie in F-minor?)
Mozart: Piano Concerto (don't remember which one) (Irving's
first choice, abandoned because of a defective piano)
(I can't remember what Ty Henderson, the black contestant, played)
And there's more.
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Sacqueboutier
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> I'm looking for the names of some of the more up tempo piano pieces
> that were in the movie "The Competition" (starring Richard Dreyfus).
> Can anybody help? If so, a follow up or an e-mail to
> sburns@--NoSpam--hotmail.com would be appreciated. (remove --NoSpam--
> from e-mail address)
The one that Richard Dreyfuss "played" and "conducted"
was the Emperor Concerto of Beethoven (his 5th). I
think the Amy Irving character played a Rachmaninoff
concerto, but I can't remember which one.
Kip Williams
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jerry and judy
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>Frank E
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>jerry and judy wrote:
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>> > In article <3818547D...@erols.com>, eggl...@erols.com wrote:
Ya know, I copied the movie 2 separate times off the TV after renting the
video originally, and the only copy I can find doesn't have the part with
that guy. I do remember him because I think he's the guy in the beginning
of the movie who pulls out a tuning hammer in order to touch up the piano
in the practise room? I tune pianos part time and my teenage son, at that
time, looked at me and remarked about that being something I'd likely do
(weird old dad!). He'll be 28 this year and I don't embarrass him quite
as much as I used to. ;)
Anyway, it's not in my database, if I come across it I'll let you know.
You've gotten me curious now. It might have been the Schumann or the
Brahms' Second, but I sort of doubt it. Maybe the Liszt Eflat? Is that a
nerdy work, according to the best Hollywood minds? heh heh 'Pretty sure
it wasn't Tchaikovsky or Rach.
Jerry
jerry and judy
> I remember the scene with the tuning hammer. I remember thinking they
> had untuned just one note on the piano to give him an excuse to pull it
> out.
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> --Kip (Williams)
> amusing the world at http://members.home.net/kipw/
Hehhheeee! Yeah, you're right! Touching up a piano is never quite that
easy, is it!?
I have to remember to repeat to myself;
movies are not the real world
movies are not the real world
movies are not the real world
movies are not the real world
movies are not the real world
Thanks for the flashback, Kip (the good kind!),
Jerry
Kip Williams
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> movies are not the real world
> movies are not the real world
> movies are not the real world
> movies are not the real world
> movies are not the real world
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Andrys D Basten
>Prokofiev's Third Concerto was in there too.
The Amy Irving character wins with that piece (or Dreyfuss
character wandering outside while she's playing it realizes she
will win), and it's played (very well) by Daniel Pollack, a USC
music professor now, I believe, and a veteran of competitions.
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E-Flat ("Emperor"). The best recording I have ever heard of this piece
was done by Van Cliburn in 1963 or thereabouts.
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>sburns wrote:
>>
>> I'm looking for the names of some of the more up tempo piano pieces
>> that were in the movie "The Competition" (starring Richard Dreyfus).
>>
>The IMDB (International Movie DataBase) lists the following works:
>This list is incomplete: IIRC, the following were also included:
>
>St.Saens: Piano concerto (#2?) (played by Joe Cali, the
>young Italo-American)
[This response is delayed, so please excuse me if someone else
already mentioned the following in a post no longer on the server.]
I recall it being the Saint-Saens 4th. (Wasn't one of his* lines
something like, "You can't go through life playing [only?] the
Saint-Saens Fourth Piano Concerto"?)
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*The character's name was Jerry DiSalvo.
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Roger Goddard
> Amy Irving said she would play the Mozart "D Major." I think it was #16. (And then she switched to Prokoviwv #3, as others have noted).
The concertos featured in the film are as follows
1. Piano concerto No.1 in E Flat Major By Franz Lizst
played in the filmed by Adam Stern as Martin Landau (Wikipedia is wrong)
2. Piano Concerto No. 5 in E Flat Major AKA, "The Emperor by Ludwig Von Beethoven,
performed in the film by Richard Dreyfuss as Paul Dietrich
3. Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor by Johannas Brahms*
performed by Vicki Kriegler as Tatiana Baronova
4. Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor by Frederic Chopin
performed in the film by Ty Henderson as Michael Humpheries
5. Piano Concerto No. 16 in D Major by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
the one where the piano went out of key and then:
6. Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major by Sergei Prokofiev
performed by Amy Irving as Heidi Joan Schoonover
7. Piano Concerto No.2 in G Minor by Camille Saint Saens
performed by Joseph Cali as Jerry DiSalvo
*The only one I am not 100% on. Brahms is not one of my favorites. I read somewhere the portion from it is actually
Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2. But in the movie, the Russian girls teacher clearly states in the number drawing scene
to determine performing order that Tatiana would perform his 1st.