"Always Smile! Have fun! "Is the first phrase that David Helfgott, the pianist of genius that inspired Shine, the 1996 movie, directed by Scott Hicks, gives me just got out of the taxi in front of the Blue Note in New York with his wife Gillian and by Mirko Zeppellini manager. When we meet I
hugging sincere, vigorous. I would like to ask you a question that haunts me for a week but can not find the courage. Say hello to passersby, hugs and kisses anyone who gets in front. He smiles, talks fast. Took my hand and enter the room together. Same rite of kisses and hugs to staff, that retracts upset by the sudden gust of affection that has just broke the historic jazz club. It 's a way to convey his joie de vivre, his desire to make others feel important "never get bored, never get bored, remember, you must be alert," he compulsively repeats almost always embraced. I take a streak of pain in his words. "But there is something to the world that can make you sad?" "Be always happy, always happy, so 'you will always have happy memories."
David Helfgott in addition to being a pianist is the supreme personification of innocence and simplicity. "In life I'm a rat, when the sound plan are a lion attack. " And 'as if his nervous system absorb strength from blacks and white keys. Every fiber of his body is tied hand in glove with the keys. When does the Sonata in B Minor by Franz Liszt's Concerto No. 2 by Sergei Rachmaninoff, the composer who, with his famous Concerto No. 3 was the beginning of the famous and sad collapse of Helfgott, it does so with the whole body and soul and the result is exciting.
Delicate Vietnamese silk shirt in his bright red bows on the keyboard, talking to the piano, as if he were alive, writhing, smiles, gets up when it rings, then sits down and looks enthusiastic audience in the front rows.
Gillian, the wife of former astrologer, in his blue coat embroidered with silver, pink lipstick and pearl earrings, I murmured "David is pure joy. The only thing that makes him suffer and 'know that there are unhappy people in the world. " She looks at him from beneath the stage. Scolds him if you wait too handshakes and pats on the heads of spectators. And 'the rational part of the couple. Once that has become aware that during the concert will be served dinner, I confided that he hoped that David does not notice. Bring her mind back to that painful period in which he played in a restaurant where all the denigrated. "We hope that American journalists do not make allusions. David deserves to be at least a little 'happy'. A large woman next (and back) to a great artist from the past unlucky.
"What a beautiful woman is Gillian," David whispered in between the first and the second time "'s beautiful, is not it? I love the piano, and Gillian ... Swimming. " I take courage. "David, playing the Flight of the Bumblebee for me?". Silence falls. Gillian takes the stage to announce that the final act of the big show is about to begin. "Sound the bee, darling!" He exclaims, turning to his wife who is not a big fan of improvisation and exchange of programs, particularly in front of a phalanx of American critics.
After an endless standing ovation and chants, the audience leaves.
Tireless, David Frantz Liszt La Campanella played for the waiters who sweep and clean the tables. A third act full-blown. David Helfgott's ability to excite everyone, beginners and experts, is its strength, its uniqueness. PS At the end
David has played the "bee" for me. An emotion that's no surprise no boyfriend could ever inspire. What can I ask for?
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