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The film went on to gross just half of its $60 million budget, bringing in $31.7 million domestically and $6.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $38.3 million. [2] This was blamed on the film's initial release date being postponed, [ 4 ] as well as the film's release coming one week before the 2009 summer movie season.
The book has been adapted into a film and a play titled The Soloist, released April 24, 2009, with Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. in the lead roles. In the film, Ayers is depicted as a cellist, rather than a bassist. [5] Ayers and Lopez's relationship was also nationally highlighted in the March 22, 2009, episode of 60 Minutes on CBS. [6] [7]
Gupta met Ayers through Steve Lopez, the Los Angeles Times columnist who did a series on Ayers, which became a book and movie called "The Soloist." [4] [5] In 2010 Gupta founded ”Street Symphony”, a non-profit organization providing musical engagement, dialogue and teaching artistry for homeless and incarcerated communities in Los Angeles.
Soloist (card player), a player who plays a solo against two or more others in a card game; Solo (music), a person playing music or singing alone; Solo (dance), a dancer who dances alone; In mountaineering, someone who specializes in solo climbing; The Soloist, a 2009 American drama film. Jackson Soloist, a guitar model by Jackson Guitars
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LisaGay Hamilton (born 1964) [1] [2] is an American actress who has portrayed roles in films, television, and on stage. She is best known for her role as secretary/lawyer Rebecca Washington on the ABC legal drama The Practice (1997–2003).
The Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491, is a concerto composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for keyboard (usually a piano or fortepiano) and orchestra.Mozart composed the concerto in the winter of 1785–1786, finishing it on 24 March 1786, three weeks after completing his Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major.
Unusually for the time, the first movement opens with interventions by the soloist, anticipating Beethoven's Fourth and Fifth Concertos. As Cuthbert Girdlestone (1964) notes, [4] its departures from convention do not end with this early solo entrance but continue in the style of dialogue between piano and orchestra in the rest of the movement.