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"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:' ❑ 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.