Byron Janis, the celebrated classical pianist who studied with Vladimir Horowitz, recorded previously unknown Chopin waltzes from manuscripts he unearthed and became a cultural hero in the U.S. after performing in the Soviet Union during the Cold War, has died. He was 95.
Janis died Thursday at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, his wife, Maria Cooper Janis, daughter of two-time Oscar-winning actor Gary Cooper, announced.
“I have been blessed with the privilege for 58 years of loving and being loved by not only one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, but by an exceptional human being who took his talents to their highest pinnacle,” she said in a statement.
During his 85-year career, Janis covered composers from Bach to David W. Guion and performed major piano concertos from Chopin, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Liszt and Prokofiev. He occupied two volumes of the 1999 Mercury Philips series Great Pianists of the...
Janis died Thursday at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, his wife, Maria Cooper Janis, daughter of two-time Oscar-winning actor Gary Cooper, announced.
“I have been blessed with the privilege for 58 years of loving and being loved by not only one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, but by an exceptional human being who took his talents to their highest pinnacle,” she said in a statement.
During his 85-year career, Janis covered composers from Bach to David W. Guion and performed major piano concertos from Chopin, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Liszt and Prokofiev. He occupied two volumes of the 1999 Mercury Philips series Great Pianists of the...
- 3/17/2024
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Mimi Steinbauer’s Radiant Films International has come on board to commence international sales in Berlin this week.
Peter Glanz will direct for producers John Powers Middleton and Alex Foster of The Middleton Media Group, Neda Armian of Armian Pictures and Adrian Politowski’s Umedia.
Oscar frontrunner Casey is on board as executive producer through his company partnership with Middleton, The Affleck/Middleton Project.
The parties said The Price Of Admission will play like a part dramedy, part existential thriller in the vein of Being John Malkovich and Birdman.
Sheen will play a playwright in the throes of a mid-life crisis and failing marriage whose life tumbles into a limbo state between fiction and reality.
International film group Umedia is co-financing the picture and ICM packaged the film and handles Us rights.
Glanz wrote the screenplay and also produces. Known primarily for commercials, he also wrote and directed comedy The Longest Week starring Jason Bateman as well...
Peter Glanz will direct for producers John Powers Middleton and Alex Foster of The Middleton Media Group, Neda Armian of Armian Pictures and Adrian Politowski’s Umedia.
Oscar frontrunner Casey is on board as executive producer through his company partnership with Middleton, The Affleck/Middleton Project.
The parties said The Price Of Admission will play like a part dramedy, part existential thriller in the vein of Being John Malkovich and Birdman.
Sheen will play a playwright in the throes of a mid-life crisis and failing marriage whose life tumbles into a limbo state between fiction and reality.
International film group Umedia is co-financing the picture and ICM packaged the film and handles Us rights.
Glanz wrote the screenplay and also produces. Known primarily for commercials, he also wrote and directed comedy The Longest Week starring Jason Bateman as well...
- 2/6/2017
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Martin Scorsese is set to produce a new biopic based on the life of classical pianist Byron Janis for Paramount Pictures. Peter Glanz pitched the project and will pen the script basd on Janis' book "Chopin and Beyond: My Extraordinary Life in Music and the Paranormal".
A student of Vladimir Horowitz and selected in 1960 by the U.S. to perform in the Soviet Union, he represented the start of a successful cultural exchange between the Cold War adversaries. His extensive repertoire included Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart, Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev.
Scorsese also says he anticipates his involvement in the day-to-day running of his new HBO drama "Vinyl" will be more hands-on than it was on his previous effort with the network - "Boardwalk Empire". Speaking at the Television Critics Association winter press tour this week via THR, he talked about helming the two-hour pilot and hopes to direct several more episodes as...
A student of Vladimir Horowitz and selected in 1960 by the U.S. to perform in the Soviet Union, he represented the start of a successful cultural exchange between the Cold War adversaries. His extensive repertoire included Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart, Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev.
Scorsese also says he anticipates his involvement in the day-to-day running of his new HBO drama "Vinyl" will be more hands-on than it was on his previous effort with the network - "Boardwalk Empire". Speaking at the Television Critics Association winter press tour this week via THR, he talked about helming the two-hour pilot and hopes to direct several more episodes as...
- 1/9/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Two of the busiest names in the business, Aaron Sorkin and Martin Scorsese, are keeping the ball moving on their careers by lining up enticing new projects. Scorsese, who was present at the TCAs in Hollywood yesterday to tease his new HBO show, "Vinyl," is developing a biopic drama centered on the classical pianist Byron Janis with Paramount Pictures. Variety reports the director will only be a producer on the film, though the subject matter fits in line with the many music-oriented films he has directed. The studio bought a pitch from Peter Glanz, who is writing the script, based on Janis’ book "Chopin and Beyond: My Extraordinary Life in Music and the Paranormal." Paramount released Scorsese’s last three films: "The Wolf of Wall Street," "Hugo" and "Shutter Island." They're currently collaborating on his passion project, "Silence," though no release date has been.
- 1/8/2016
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
The Oscar-winning director is producing a drama about the American musician chosen to perform in the Soviet Union in the 1960s
Martin Scorsese is developing a biopic of the classical pianist Byron Janis, in a project that extends the director’s interest in music throughout his career.
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- 1/8/2016
- by Benjamin Lee
- The Guardian - Film News
Renowned concert pianist Byron Janis—the first student of Vladimir Horowitz at age 16—has had quite a remarkable career, making headlines around the world when he discovered two long–lost original Chopin manuscripts. In his new autobiography, Chopin and Beyond: My Extraordinary Life in Music and the Paranormal (Wiley; November 1), Janis and his wife Maria Cooper Janis (the daughter of actor Gary Cooper) chronicle his struggle to overcome severe arthritis and retrace his profound—and paranormal—relationship with Chopin. Below, Janis recalls the first of many unexpected events linked to the great composer and the secret scores he left behind. Listen to the podcast after the jump.
- 10/25/2010
- Vanity Fair
The daughter of late movie legend Gary Cooper is writing a new novel about her piano prodigy husband Byron Janis.
Maria Cooper Janis will tell the story of how her spouse became a child star, despite losing feeling in a finger after a car crash when he was 11.
The book will also document Janis' battle with arthritis and experiences with the paranormal, according to the New York Post.
The as-yet-unnamed book will be released alongside a U.S. TV documentary about Janis' life.
Cooper Janis is Gary Cooper's only child from his marriage to actress Veronica Balfe.
Maria Cooper Janis will tell the story of how her spouse became a child star, despite losing feeling in a finger after a car crash when he was 11.
The book will also document Janis' battle with arthritis and experiences with the paranormal, according to the New York Post.
The as-yet-unnamed book will be released alongside a U.S. TV documentary about Janis' life.
Cooper Janis is Gary Cooper's only child from his marriage to actress Veronica Balfe.
- 8/18/2009
- WENN
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