The Nelly Berman School of Music presents: “Spotlight on Award-Winning Students” Free Gala Concert Saturday, May 3, 7:00 PM at Radnor Middle School Featuring some of the top music students in Philadelphia, including two winners of the Philadelphia Orchestra Concerto Competition, performing works by Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Dvorak, Debussy, Gershwin, Schedrin, and Kapustin. Presenting NBS Orchestra and Jazz Improv Ensemble. To reserve your free tickets and to read more, please visit www.nbsmusic.com or email us at nbsmusic@comcast.net
The concert will also honor Susan Starr, a silver medalist of the Tchaikovsky Competition. There will be a showing of an excerpt from the documentary “Susan Starr.” Directed by D. A. Pennebaker and Robert Drew for Time-Life Broadcast, the documentary won “Outstanding Film of the Year” at the London Film Festival in 1963, and is considered a pioneering film of American Cinéma Vérité.
The film follows three days in the life of Susan Starr (born Susan Schwartz), competitor in the finals of the Dimitri Mitropoulos International Piano Competition, where Arthur Rubenstein was one of the judges. The documentary shows her during the competition at the Metropolitan Opera House, backstage as her rivals perform, meeting her future husband (one of the other competitors), and onstage as she performs the Tchaikovsky concerto with the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Theodore Bloomfield.
