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The Soloist is a 2009 drama film directed by Joe Wright, and starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. The plot is based on the true story of Nathaniel Ayers , a musician who developed schizophrenia and became homeless.
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]
The second movement was featured in the 1967 Swedish film Elvira Madigan, [1] [5] using a recording by Géza Anda as the soloist. [6] As a result, the piece has become widely known as the Elvira Madigan concerto. [7] [8] [9] Neil Diamond's 1972 song "Song Sung Blue" was based on a theme from the andante movement of the concerto. [10]
Marianelli was born in Pisa, Italy.He studied piano and composition in Florence and in 1990 he moved to London.After a year as a postgraduate composer at the Guildhall School of Music, he took up a three-year postgraduate program at the National Film and Television School in London, from which he graduated in 1997.
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A Beautiful Mind, a 2001 film which is a fictionalised account of a mathematician with schizophrenia, John Nash. [ 36 ] The Soloist , a 2009 film depicting the true story of Nathaniel Ayers , a musical prodigy who develops schizophrenia during his second year at Juilliard School, becomes homeless and plays a two stringed violin in the streets ...
The book was made into a 1990 film of the same title. Salzman wrote the screenplay and starred as himself in the film. Though the real venue of the story was in Changsha, the film was shot in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. Salzman plays the cello. [3] In high school, he played the cello for the Norwalk Youth Symphony.
The Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, known as the Emperor Concerto in English-speaking countries, is a piano concerto composed by Ludwig van Beethoven.Beethoven composed the concerto in 1809 under salary in Vienna, and he dedicated it to Archduke Rudolf, who was his patron, friend, and pupil.