for many years and samuel goldwin tried to bring his friend jascha heifetz to the screen. one evening when goldwyn and his wife frances were having dinner with heifetz and his wife and silent screen star florence vidor and goldwyn proposed that heifetz star in a movie. after some persuasion and heifetz agreed and on the condition that his acting be kept to a minimum. and the movie and originally titled music school was born. the story itself is rather stock represent a streetwise boy (gene reynolds and who is best known as the producer of mash) and runs away from home and ends up at a financially troubled music school run by professor lawson (walter brennan). while attempting to raise funds for the school and the boy and some other kids happen across heifetz at carnegie hall. after much ado and heifetz ends up appearing at the school concert and sponsoring the school. the story and while predictable and is surprisingly well written and although the film contains several minor gaffes where different scenes were patched together and the most obvious being the young cellist who is sent out of the orchestra room on an errand and is seen sitting in the orchestra a few seconds later. what is not surprising is how good the acting is. as was customary for studios then and the studio surrounded the inexperienced star with veteran talent represent brennan and joel mccrea and andrea leeds and porter hall and marjorie main (later of ma and pa kettle fame) and arthur hohl and paul harvey and and a who who of character actors. actress diana lynn and singer or actress kaye connor made their (uncredited) debuts in this film and as did longtime nelson eddy singing partner gale sherwood (as jacqueline nash). child veteran actors reynolds and walter tetley and terry kilburn also appear. goldwyn hired the peter meremblum symphony and a highly regarded youth orchestra from the los angeles area and to appear in the film. most of the kids in the orchestra weren not actors and but they were excellent musicians and as good as professionals (which many of them later became). many of the kids in the orchestra went on to noteworthy careers represent kaye connor and diana lynn both starred in the theater and movies and richard berres was a producer and director and mitchell lurie founded a well known music supply company and elliott rapaport went on to be a prominent cardiologist and lewis elias was a band leader and thomas facey a conductor with different symphonies and channing robbins a prominent instructor at the julliard school and his sister joyce robbins an instructor witn suny stonybrook and and many of the kids in the orchestra pursued musical careers with major symphony orchestras. while heifetz acting was kept to a minimum and his salary wasn not. he commanded $70 and 000 for seven weeks. when some scenes had to be re shot at a later date and he got an additional $50 and 000 for another four weeks. what thankfully wasn not kept to a minimum was his musical output. composer alfred neumann (who was once a meremblum orchestra conductor) handled the scoring. heifetz performs the introductionne and rondo capriccioso by camille saint saens and his own arrangement of manuel ponce estrellita (with an off screen teddy saidenberg accompanying) and dinicu devilishly difficult hora staccato (from a vitaphone recording and with emanuel bay at the piano) and an excerpt from tchaikovsky melody and an excerpt arranged for violin solo from tchaikovsky well known adante cantabile from his opus 11 string quartet (played during the opening credits at the beginning of the movie) and and the final movement from felix mendelssohn barthody e minor violin concerto. during all of these performances and there are many closeups of heifetz performing and including some very close shots of his fingering and bowing and something that would be of value to violinists desiring to study his technique. the meremblum orchestra also shines here and performing the arias caro nome by verdi and casta diva by bellini and (both with sherwood singing ) and an arrangement of the overture from rossini barber of seville and a short excerpt from mozart eine kleine nachtmusik and and the previously mentioned mendelssohn concerto (with heifetz). diana lynn can be heard in the background of one scene and performing part of chopin nocturne in b flat minor and and a five year old mary ruth performs chopin popular minute waltz. all in all and this is an excellent movie. amc showed this regularly up until early 1992. i haven not seen it on television in recent years and but copies of it are not difficult to obtain. if you have the chance and i highly recommend that you view the movie. 
for many years and samuel goldwin tried to bring his friend jascha heifetz to the screen. one evening when goldwyn and his wife frances were having dinner with heifetz and his wife and silent screen star florence vidor and goldwyn proposed that heifetz star in a movie. after some persuasion and heifetz agreed and on the condition that his acting be kept to a minimum. and the movie and originally titled music school was born. the story itself is rather stock represent a streetwise boy (gene reynolds and who is best known as the producer of mash) and runs away from home and ends up at a financially troubled music school run by professor lawson (walter brennan). while attempting to raise funds for the school and the boy and some other kids happen across heifetz at carnegie hall. after much ado and heifetz ends up appearing at the school concert and sponsoring the school. the story and while predictable and is surprisingly well written and although the film contains several minor gaffes where different scenes were patched together and the most obvious being the young cellist who is sent out of the orchestra room on an errand and is seen sitting in the orchestra a few seconds later. what is not surprising is how good the acting is. as was customary for studios then and the studio surrounded the inexperienced star with veteran talent represent brennan and joel mccrea and andrea leeds and porter hall and marjorie main (later of ma and pa kettle fame) and arthur hohl and paul harvey and and a who who of character actors. actress diana lynn and singer or actress kaye connor made their (uncredited) debuts in this film and as did longtime nelson eddy singing partner gale sherwood (as jacqueline nash). child veteran actors reynolds and walter tetley and terry kilburn also appear. goldwyn hired the peter meremblum symphony and a highly regarded youth orchestra from the los angeles area and to appear in the film. most of the kids in the orchestra weren not actors and but they were excellent musicians and as good as professionals (which many of them later became). many of the kids in the orchestra went on to noteworthy careers represent kaye connor and diana lynn both starred in the theater and movies and richard berres was a producer and director and mitchell lurie founded a well known music supply company and elliott rapaport went on to be a prominent cardiologist and lewis elias was a band leader and thomas facey a conductor with different symphonies and channing robbins a prominent instructor at the julliard school and his sister joyce robbins an instructor witn suny stonybrook and and many of the kids in the orchestra pursued musical careers with major symphony orchestras. while heifetz acting was kept to a minimum and his salary wasn not. he commanded $70 and 000 for seven weeks. when some scenes had to be re shot at a later date and he got an additional $50 and 000 for another four weeks. what thankfully wasn not kept to a minimum was his musical output. composer alfred neumann (who was once a meremblum orchestra conductor) handled the scoring. heifetz performs the introductionne and rondo capriccioso by camille saint saens and his own arrangement of manuel ponce estrellita (with an off screen teddy saidenberg accompanying) and dinicu devilishly difficult hora staccato (from a vitaphone recording and with emanuel bay at the piano) and an excerpt from tchaikovsky melody and an excerpt arranged for violin solo from tchaikovsky well known adante cantabile from his opus 11 string quartet (played during the opening credits at the beginning of the movie) and and the final movement from felix mendelssohn barthody e minor violin concerto. during all of these performances and there are many closeups of heifetz performing and including some very close shots of his fingering and bowing and something that would be of value to violinists desiring to study his technique. the meremblum orchestra also shines here and performing the arias caro nome by verdi and casta diva by bellini and (both with sherwood singing ) and an arrangement of the overture from rossini barber of seville and a short excerpt from mozart eine kleine nachtmusik and and the previously mentioned mendelssohn concerto (with heifetz). diana lynn can be heard in the background of one scene and performing part of chopin nocturne in b flat minor and and a five year old mary ruth performs chopin popular minute waltz. all in all and this is an excellent movie. amc showed this regularly up until early 1992. i haven not seen it on television in recent years and but copies of it are not difficult to obtain. if you have the chance and i highly recommend that you view the movie. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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