Orem Library

Documentary portrait of the life of violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg.

A portrait of violinist Isaac Stern featuring rare archival footage of Stern performing as well as interviews with students, colleagues and friends (Henry Kissinger, Shimon Peres, Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Jimmy Connors, Zubin Mehta, Daniel Schorr, Gregory Peck and others).

Jascha Heifetz: Rar footage of the incomparable violist at the height of his career. The program begins with a portrait of the artist. It takes us into the home of the virtuoso where we view his practice techniques and hear Heifetz playing. Gregor Piatigorsky: One of the greatest cellists of all time in a brilliant presention.

An orchestra violinist's dreams of becoming a celebrated soloist and fears of his own mediocrity get in the way of his marriage. To Joy is a heartbreaking tale of one man's inability to overcome the demons standing in the way of his happiness.

Laura Huxley married Aldous Huxley in 1956. Their home was the center of the artistic and intellectual avant-garde of Los Angeles. Huxley on Huxley offers a compelling glimpse of Laura's life with Aldous and the revolutionary and provocative work that had a major influence on American and contemporary cultural history.

Glamorous socialite Helen Wright takes what she wants - clothes, alcohol, men - and uses them up and tosses them aside. Then she meets a brilliant young violinist, Paul Boray. But this is one toy she can't break.

14-year-old Emily is the neighborhood secret keeper. While her friends are away at summer camp, Emily befriends her new next-door neighbor, Philip. She spends part of her time practicing her violin for an important audition with a prestigious symphony and part of her time listening to the neighborhood secrets. Emily lets Philip in on her secrets and it isn't long before it leads to betrayal and hurt.

An emotional detective story spread over two continents and a half-century. Beneath the film's stunning and pulsing musical revelations burn the horror of war, and the lost souls extinguished from history. "...François Girard's sweeping historical drama about a man searching for his childhood best friend -- a violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust -- who vanished decades before on the night of his first public performance."--

Follows Isaac Stern to China where he taught classical music to Chinese students. Contains a segment on the suffering of Chinese musicians during the Cultural Revolution. Bonus film, Musical encounters, documents Stern's return to China twenty years after his original visit..

Camille, a concert violinist, becomes intrigued by her lover's business partner, Stephane. She interprets his distance as a sign of intellectual seduction. The love triangle that develops reveals the complexity and imperfection of the three characters.