Piano lessons

Seymour: An Introduction

Crit

Pianist and teacher Seymour Bernstein finds the meanings of the universe and of the soul in music, naturally enough, and director Ethan Hawke, searching for answers to his own performative existential questions, finds in Bernstein, if not answers, at least thrilling expansions of his questions. What might have been bland hagiography finds a variety of angles in a variety of interviewers, and in Bernstein's prickly, lovable self.

I loved the music, by the way, but it's fair to say that an hour and a half of classical piano will hold me for a while. Oh, and no, as far as I can tell, there is no reason for this to share its title with the Salinger novella.