Word: davidovich
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shelton (Bull Durham) directs Blaze with plenty of pungent wit, but from a high, disinterested view. He never gets steam into the affair. Paul Newman approaches Earl from the outside too, as a growly-bear clown who doesn't realize he's King Lear. Lolita Davidovich, making the most of her first big break, plays Blaze as a sensible, loving career gal with an overripe body. But the picture is not mainly about sex or even love; it is about an aging man's loss of sexual, political and personal power...
...able to take one rug, no furniture and no books or scores that predated 1946; family heirlooms had to be left behind. Forsaken too was the hard-won respect that the Soviets gave grudgingly to Jewish artists. "Jews are considered a lower echelon," notes Davidovich, a gentle, gracious woman whose expressive face and eyes faithfully mirror her emotions. "I received my title of Deserving Artist five years after friends who had won no competitions. In my career, everything, like playing in the West and teaching, happened with delays...
...exchange she got New York City's mean streets ("a terrible sight, all that garbage"), its Augean subway ("so loud and dirty"). Davidovich quickly fled to the apartment in Kew Gardens ("quiet, with trees and a fresh smell"). Perhaps the hardest thing to bear was her professional anonymity, the necessity of starting a career over again. "It was very difficult," remembers Davidovich, whose still limited command of English requires her to use an interpreter. "I was very famous in the Soviet Union. I had my public. I did not know if it would be good for me in the United...
...traveled widely in the U.S. on her concert tours. "I had read a great deal about America, but I had never realized how beautiful it was," she says of her new land. While she feels that the training Soviet musicians receive is superior, Davidovich believes American orchestras are better than their Russian counterparts, and she praises the emphasis on chamber music in the U.S. Like other emigres from totalitarian countries, however, she sees a darker side to the many liberties Americans enjoy. "For me, freedom has meant I am free to work and go where I please, when I want...
...longing to return to the Soviet Union. "If I could go back to play, I would do it," she says. "But in no other way would I go back. I have a new life here, and I like it." Davidovich has begun to concertize with her son, and together they have made two records of Grieg and Ravel. "I haven't the time to miss things in Russia," sums up Davidovich. "I am my own Goskontsert. I play with good conductors in good concert halls, and in every country there are friends from Russia. It's a good life...