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It is sometimes said
that both the shortest and the longest distance in art is that between the very
good and the truly great. Well, tonight, David Eli Rapoport may well cross that divide. Those of us who have been privileged
to hear his promotional recording are unanimous in declaring
the extraordinary playing by this 21-year-old Polish immigrant: "Music from the gods." So great has been the impact
of this recording by Rapoport on the classical music world that one tends to forget how little known his name still is. And tonight will be his first-ever concert on an international stage
that both the shortest and the longest distance in art is that between the very
good and the truly great. Well, tonight, David Eli Rapoport may well cross that divide. Those of us who have been privileged
to hear his promotional recording are unanimous in declaring
the extraordinary playing by this 21-year-old Polish immigrant: "Music from the gods." So great has been the impact
of this recording by Rapoport on the classical music world that one tends to forget how little known his name still is. And tonight will be his first-ever concert on an international stage
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It is sometimes said
that both the shortest
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and the longest distance in art
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is that between the very
good and the truly great.
00:00:10.551 --> 00:00:13.721
Well, tonight, David Eli Rapoport
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may well cross that divide.
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Those of us who have been privileged
to hear his promotional recording
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are unanimous in declaring
the extraordinary playing
00:00:25.525 --> 00:00:28.486
by this 21-year-old Polish immigrant:
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"Music from the gods."
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So great has been the impact
of this recording by Rapoport
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on the classical music world
00:00:37.062 --> 00:00:39.083
that one tends to forget
00:00:39.914 --> 00:00:43.125
how little known his name still is.
00:00:43.096 --> 00:00:47.838
And tonight will be his first-ever concert
00:00:47.922 --> 00:00:50.383
on an international stage.
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Movie Summary
Several years after his childhood friend, a violin prodigy, disappears on the eve of his first solo concert, an Englishman travels throughout Europe to find him.
