There is a scene in The Pianist, where Adrien Brody is playing the piano in a small cafe. Does anyone know what piece of music he is playing? It is not on the soundtrack, or in the song book. Anyone?
Regards,
James
Ohh, I know the piece you’re talking about. Know the name, no. Know the scene, yes. Beautiful piece too. I wouldn’t mind tracking that down myself.
dang it. 
Alas…my google skills failed. 
Is either of these the one you’re looking for? (I haven’t seen the film)
Chopin - Nocturnes No. 21 In C Minor, Op. Posth.
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Chopin - Nocturne No. 7 In C Sharp Minor, Op. 27 No.1
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Both samples from Amazon amazon.com/gp/product/B00000 … les&n=5174
Can’t you just rent the movie and check the end credits? - if you get it on DVD you can just skip straight to them…
SAITD
Have checked the movie credits - if it’s in there, then it isn’t a piece by Chopin. Can’t remember exactly what I found there, but I do seem to remember being disappointed.
km2_33
Thanks but no dice. I own these already, and it ain’t them. Any other suggestions?
James
This is Obstinate De-detachment Disorder. Let me cure it for you. You might be disappointed when you listen to the piece again, especially if you listen to it too soon after your first hearing, too loud with your superbass stereo, or too happy to be listening to it again. All of the above factors and more, are likely to unrealise the enthuiasm carried in your impression. Even if your time and other factors are perfect, you might still not enjoy as nearly as much as you did, when you were stirred up high by the movie, the scence, and the virtuosity of the actor. It’s the same thing with being in a concert hall, Carneige Hall makes Offenbach’s noise as exiting as Bach.
It’s probably a Jewish piece. I like Jewish pieces but most of them reminds me of Isereal’s national hymn. If you really can’t let go of it, try sit at the piano and see if you could render the essence of it out in a very meditative impro excicution. Many actually believe that forgotten notes can be reproduced this way.
Unfortunately, I have not the patience or the skill to render this particular melody all on my own. I appreciate your other comments. However I can hear the piece in my minds ear, as it were, and it is still as enjoyable as it was before. Or close enough to warrant my continued search.
Regards,
James
James, theoretical approach is needed here. This is not a matter which we can galloping pass with a comma. This is a potential Descartesian life or Berkelian death situation.
I hope you find it, and enjoy it as much as before. The latter might be the more difficult thing to do. As far as you appreciate my “other comments”, it’s up to you to take destiny in hand and increase the probablility of a satisfactory rehearing.
Re,
Uniqor
I agree.
Waite… I take it back.
“Take in hand” and “destiny” might be two contradictary concepts by defination, in the formulation of the “take destiny in hand” grammatical entity.
You use flowery language. I do not take it very literally. However, “taking one’s destiny in hand” is a common oxymoronic expression, and deliberately so. Ironic that you should literalize it, and fault yourself for this ‘mistake’. Or deliberate. In which case, very funny.
James
You’ve been grining along here all the way down, probably thinking that everything is funny, not that I have tried to be. Everything here is ODD.
We can all go to bed with at least one concensus. It’s also right that you shouldn’t take it literally, like when reading one of the critiques. All you need is a little imagination, like when reading Zarathustra, as my real name once said that “Nietzsche was a flower”.
Still, it’s up to you to increase the potential satisfaction in the possible rehearing. How’s that? No contradictions this time, though I feel the need to be a flower again. Life is too short for Kant.
No - life is not too short for Kant… If you are rich enough in time to share some with him, that is. Who is willing, then, to rediscover the seriousness of a child at play…?
I liked your phrase, in any case… - ‘we can all go to bed with one consensus’.
Regards,
James
This should win the award for ‘best thread hijack’ in that it has turned from proper mundane babble (no offence re: your quest, James) to one of the most beautiful threads currently running…
Well, as a fitting end to this thread, I recorded five minutes of (raw!) unedited improv. Criticisms welcome.* But keep in mind that I have no formal music training.
[size=75]*There are 3 or 4 obvious mistakes in the recording, and the quality is very bad, because I don’t have any proper equipment.[/size]
http://www.myspace.com/isocrates
Regards,
James
whenever I hear the question: “what do you call it?” when related to a short piano piece I immediately think…
"Lick My Love Pump: Nigel’s life work. (RL) Mozart and Bach (Mach)-influenced arrangement under development “for a few months now” when Nigel is interviewed by DiBergi in 1982 for “This is Spinal Tap.” Part of a musical trilogy the guitarist was working on in D Minor, “the saddest of all keys.” The piece would later appear on his solo album, “Nigel Tufnel’s Clam Caravan.” The guitarist envisioned “Lick My Love Pump” as the first part of a four- or five-hour work to be played by a full symphony orchestra. The theme would be evolution. “We were fish, and then the fish crawled out on the beach, and he became a monkey. Then the monkey, he went back into the water, because it was too hot. Then he started developing gills-like a fish-and started swimming in the ocean. Then he came back out again, and was then just a monkey, and then a man, and then a monkey again, I think, and then a man. So it’s based on that.” (GP) On the commentary for the Special Edition DVD, Nigel reported that he was still working on the piece. “It’s like a Sherlock Holmes story-a lot of fog and pipes.”
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-Imp
I listened to the whole piece and I’m so impressed that I might even put a link to it in my sig. Criticisms - well, it’s an improv so to criticise the structure seems a little unfair but that would be the only thing that I’d pick on if I were to pick.
Very impressed James!
Requested a myspace add too
I very much like the piece. Gonna add it to my little playlist for awhile I think. I don’t have any good classical in my playlist as it stands.