Word: barenboim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Most disenchanted was Barenboim, who was quoted as saying, "Couldn't they have waited until I'm dead?" Barenboim opposed the making of the movie version of the book. The BBC initially agreed to co-produce the film, but when Barenboim balked, it dropped out, citing internal rules that forbade it from making dramatic films about living people unless all those involved approved. EMI, which owns most of Du Pre's recordings, also refused to participate in the project. "We felt that the film focused on the wrong aspect of the Jackie legacy," says Richard Lyttelton, president of EMI Classics...
...teenager, she studied briefly with Pablo Casals and dazzled concertgoers. A patron gave her two Stradivarius cellos, the first when she was just 16. With it, she championed such British works as Edward Elgar's melancholy Cello Concerto, which became her signature piece. By the time Du Pre and Barenboim met and fell in love, she was moving in a circle of musical celebrities that included Arthur Rubinstein and Itzhak Perlman...
...complex relationship with its most talented member. Says Hilary: "We all ran to keep up with her." Hilary also tactfully discusses why she believed that encouraging Jacqueline's affair with her husband would help her sister get over a difficult period in which she was briefly separated from Barenboim...
Wilson's biography, by contrast, offers a straightforward, scholarly account of the cellist's life. Barenboim not only urged Wilson, a family friend, to write the book but also shared his papers with her and even read her manuscript before it was published. Drawing on scores of interviews with people who knew Du Pre, Wilson tracks her career and scrupulously reconstructs all her performances. But the author doesn't completely shy away from salacious matters. She mentions the affair and notes that Du Pre also felt abandoned by Barenboim, who cared for her when she was ill but, during...
...understand this as a love story. But to do that they have to sanctify Hilary's passivity without acknowledging its aggressiveness. That has the unintended consequence of stupefying her and giving Rachel Griffiths an almost impossible role to play. Since Jackie's husband, the potentially litigious Daniel Barenboim (played with boyish inconsequence by James Frain), did not cooperate with this enterprise, that leaves all the emotional energy to Emily Watson's Jackie, who feverishly fills the screen, if not our hearts, with a sort of relentless brattiness--the genius as implacably spoiled child. Inevitably, our sympathy turns to impatience...