Portraits: The Piano Music of Scott Wheeler (2016)

Directed by

Fern Lopez

Genre

documentary film

Runtime

59 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A look at the first major recording of composer Scott Wheeler's piano music. The film follows pianist Donald Berman as he records pieces Wheeler wrote as musical portraits of other people, and explores whether those pieces sound like their subjects.

informativebehind-the-scenescontemplativewarmfocusedintimateleisurely-pacedconversational

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