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level made her one of the speakers in a
new film, The Oakland Piano Teachers'
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Forum: Its Origins & History.
Former and present piano students
throughout the area — and their
families — will be able to learn how
organization members enhanced their
own skills as the film premieres in a
free showing set for 10:30 a.m. Friday,
April 25, at Evola Music in
Bloomfield Township.
The 20-minute docu-
mentary, made by Henry
Feinberg of Huntington
Woods, features musical
segments as it chronicles
the forum Rosner helped
develop.
"The film is about piano
teaching and the people who
teach piano," says Feinberg,
a forum member whose instructional
skills are shown at Oakland Community
College as well as in private sessions,
and whose performance talents can be
heard Thursday and Friday evenings at
the Rochester Chop House.
"It's a documentary on the organi-
zation started late in the 1960s and
formalized with a set of bylaws in
1978. The group was begun by the late
Rebecca Frohman, her students and a
few other people:'
Frohman, who was Feinberg's second
piano teacher, is recalled in the film by
her son, Lawrence Frohman.
"The Jewish content includes inter-
views with charter members," says
Feinberg, who earned bachelor's and
master's degrees at Oakland University
and has been active with Temple
Emanu-El in Oak Park.
Rochelle Lupovitch of West
Bloomfield also details organizational
history in the film.
At first, the group was informal,"
she says. "Members shared ideas about
teaching. It has expanded to a much
larger organization representing differ-
ent generations:'
The group has nine meetings
between each September and May and
schedules master classes and speakers.
Pianist Ralph Votapek, who performed
with the Paul Whiteman Orchestra and
was artist-in-residence at Michigan
State University, did a program on
Gershwin.
After attending one meeting on
group history, Feinberg decided to do
the film, learning the craft of cinema
through an Internet program and
basing segments on a film he saw in
which Martin Scorsese profiled Bob
Dylan.
Feinberg used a digital
camera that also records
sound. Scriptwriting,
production and editing
spanned three months.
"I wanted to emulate
some of the techniques I
had seen and liked, includ-
ing approaches to camera
angles and commentary
made without hearing the
interviewer, a role I took:'
says Feinberg, who has been teaching,
performing and composing for some
35 years.
While members of the audience will
hear the sounds of a Beethoven sonata
and a Brahms variation, they also will
hear a Feinberg composition played by
him as the film ends.
"Writing this movie has been like
writing a piece of music:' he says. "It's
been a very creative process because
I worked with historical materials to
have it flow and make sense.
"People will learn the dedication and
the love piano teachers have for their
craft. They're all talented musicians
who share their knowledge and put a
lot of heart into what they do:'
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The Oakland Piano Teachers' Forum: Its
Origins & History will premiere in a free
showing at 10:30 a.m. Friday, April 25, at
Evola Music, 2184 Telegraph, Bloomfield
Township. (248) 334-0566.