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...whose sight and hearing are enhanced by Krank's electronic inventions. A little boy, Denree (Joseph Lucien, who has the biggest eyes and oral fixation of any young actor in a surrealist movie in recent memory), is one of the children kidnapped, and his adopted older brother, One (Ron Perlman, showing that the giant chin he sported in The Name of the Rose was no mere makeup), a fun fair strongman, attempts to find him. He is helped by Miette (Judith Vittet), the leader of a ragtag group of orphans. Together with the help and hindrance of a legion...
After becoming the first winner of the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1958 at age 23, Cliburn became a legned and role model for young musicians. He went on to win the Levintritt Competition, whose violin winners include celebrity players Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman. In 1962, he founded the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Wroth, Texas...
...soon as the two sudden titans finished with broad flourishes of their bows, a tremendous cheer accompanied by even more thunderous applause rose from the enraptured crowd. Perlman and Zukerman then left the stage in unquestionable triumph...
...Passacaglia revealed another, extremely promising and satisfying step in the continuing evolution of Perlman's playing. From the energetic dynamo of the seventies to the sometimes complacent and always prolific artist of the eighties has risen a mature, cerebral virtuoso who has proved his ranking next to Isaac Stern and Salvatore Accardo, although it is yet to be seen whether he can attain the inherent perfection of a Jascha Heifetz...
...encore provided some redemption for the audience, as the serious listeners were uncannily filtered from the crowd and began to approach the stage while Perlman and Zukerman released their notes into the air. Surprisingly, easily fewer than fifty of Tanglewood's own students showed up to listen to the headliners. Several more appeared after the show, when it was revealed that Perlman was staying late to receive people. The press was afforded no access except to the rapidly growing line outside the backstage doors...