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...Five Easy Pieces, Nicholson has retaken the high ground. He is Robert, an oil rigger, beering and wenching with the worst of them. One morning, caught in a traffic jam, Robert explodes. He clambers aboard a moving van, uncovers an old upright and begins playing a delicate Chopin fantasy...
...Chopin? This is no ordinary roustabout, no average hardhat. This is a supergypsy, Robert Eroica Dupea, scion of a musical family, gifted pianist and older brother of the easy riders of 1969. Indeed, the same studio that produced Easy Rider has manufactured an undrugged, mature version of that film, complete with central emblem: the road as panacea. But now, if something in the plot has thickened, something in the pulse has slowed...
...save-a-castle plan. Built in the 16th century in the lush lowlands 30 miles west of Paris, the château has long claimed a treasury of priceless furniture, rare tapestries and a collection of 60,000 documents and letters from kings, ministers and literary figures. Chopin's piano-a gift from George Sand-graced the gilded music room; the original manuscripts of two unpublished Chopin waltzes were discovered in a linen closet...
Everyone loves a mystery. Whichever side one takes on the question of communication with the dead, Rosemary is clearly a musical mystery. There is the music itself, a great deal of it, including, on the new record alone, eight works that she claims are by Liszt, three by Chopin and one each by Beethoven, Schubert, Debussy, Brahms, Grieg and Schumann. The pieces all are characteristic of their alleged composers. Some of them are good enough to have been written by a Liszt or a Beethoven in a nodding moment, though they also suggest the possibility of highly skilled parody...
...modesty ("I only take what comes") and her homely use of detail. "We would call Debussy a hippie today," she adds. "He tells me he does much more painting than music." Liszt, she says, often accompanies her on shopping trips and once checked up on the price of bananas; Chopin has become a TV addict, though he disapproves of much that appears on the BBC. "When Schubert first appeared to me he was wearing his spectacles but I think it was only to make sure I recognized him. Now he doesn't wear them at all. Beethoven," she adds...