| Cliburn adds film festival 4 choices unveiled, 3 more to be named 04/10/2001 By Scott Cantrell / The Dallas Morning News This year's Van Cliburn International Piano Competition will be the first to be held in Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth. But a new adjunct to the quadrennial piano extravaganza will take place in a nearby movie theater.
A mini-festival of seven films related to classical music will be presented June 4-10 at the AMC Palace 9 Theaters, Third and Commerce streets, just north of Bass Hall. The weeklong festival will be hosted by Michael H. Price, film theorist, author and director of Gourmet Cinema, who picked the films. Screenings will be followed by open discussions. Mr. Price also has produced a catalog that will be sold during the festival.
Three of the movies will be announced later, as will specific dates and times. Here's the lineup:
• Song of Love (1947), a dramatization of the friendship between Johannes Brahms and Clara Schumann, with Katherine Hepburn, Paul Henreid and Robert Walk.
• Carnegie Hall (1947), a young pianist's triumph over tragedy, starring Marsha Hunt and William Prince, with cameo appearances by Walter Damrosch, Artur Rodzinski (father of Van Cliburn Foundation executive director Richard Rodzinski), Bruno Walter and others.
• Song Without End (1960), a biography of Franz Liszt, starring Dirk Bogarde, with Jorge Bolet playing the piano selections.
• A Song to Remember (1945), a biography of Frédéric Chopin, starring Cornel Wilde, Merle Oberon and Paul Muni, with José Iturbi playing the piano.
A six-admission festival punch pass, including a copy of the festival catalog, is available through Central Ticket Office for $35. Additional copies of the catalogue will be available during the festival for $5. Call 817-335-9000.
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