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At 15:54 23/08/2001 +1000, you wrote: >Tonight (Thursday 23 August) the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing >Arts presents the world premiere of a stage adaptation of the ROPE >screenplay by Arthur Laurents (as opposed to the original play by >Patrick Hamilton). The actor playing the Stewart Granger part must have been carefully selected for his piano-playing ability. I have grade 8 piano (and organ) and adore Debussy, Milhaud, Poulenc and Satie, but find 'Mouvements Perpetueux no. 1' virtually impossible. My right hand just won't stretch enough to hit the 10-semitone gaps, for starters. Rubenstein's transcription of Manuel de Falla's 'Ritual del Fuego' is kids stuff compared to that. With the possible exception of Rachmaninov's entire output and Granados' 'El Pelele', IMHO, this is the most technically difficult piece ever written for solo piano, and I'd love to know whether Stewart Granger really played it in the fillm, and if not, who played for the dub (having viewed the sequences in an original 35mm IB print on a Steenbeck in slow motion, the synch looks incredibly convincing - if he is dubbed, the technicians who synched it should all have got Oscars). Funny - I saw Chabrol's 'Merci Pour le Chocolat' the other day and thought that the dubbing of Lizst's 'Funerailles' (which was acknowledged in the closing credits) was quite convincing - but nowhere near the accuracy of 'Rope', if indeed the latter was a dub. L ------------------------------------ Dr. Leo Enticknap Director, Northern Region Film and Television Archive School of Law, Arts and Humanities Room M616, Middlesbrough Tower University of Teesside Middlesbrough TS1 3BA United Kingdom Tel. 01642 384022 Brainfryer: 07710 417383 ---- For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives: http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html