DOCUMENTARY FILM NOTE BY NOTE: THE MAKING OF STEINWAY L1037 TO BE PRESENTED IN THE GE THEATRE AT PROCTORS, MAY 4TH & 5TH
Schenectady, NY- The feature-length independent documentary Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037 will be presented at The GE Theatre at Proctors on May 4-5, 2008. On Sunday, May 4th the film will be shown at 4pm & 6pm. And on May 5th screenings will be at 3:30pm, 5:30pm, & 7:30pm.
Note by Note, winner of Best Documentary at the Sarasota Film Festival is a documentary that follows the creation of a Steinway concert grand, from forest floor to concert hall. It explores the relationship between musician and instruments, chronicles the manufacturing process, and illustrates what makes each Steinway unique in this age of mass production.
From the factory floor in Queens to Steinway Hall in Manhattan, each piano’s journey is complex, spanning 12 months, 12,000 parts, 450 craftsmen, and countless hours of fine tuned labor.
Filmed in key Steinways locations, the factory, Steinway’s reserved “Bank,” and private auditions. Note by Note is a loving celebration of not just craftsmanship, but of a dying breed of person who is deeply connected to working by hand. In the end, this is an ode to the most unexpected and perhaps ironic, of unsung heroes. It reminds us how extraordinary the dialogue can be between an artist and an instrument, crafted out of human hands but borne of the materials of nature.
Note by Note is directed and produced by documentary filmmaker and award winning graphic designer Ben Niles. During his fifteen years as a graphic designer, Ben directed and produced photo shoots, videos, commercials, and print campaigns for commercial and entertainment clients including Atlantic Records, The Nantucket Film Festival, and the Jacob Burns Film Center. In his years in the record industry, Ben created album packages for Collective Soul, Jewel, Jon Brion, celebrated box sets for Phish and George Carlin, and packages and identities for jazz musicians Cyrus Chestnut, James Carter, and Henry Butler. A graduate of the University of Georgia at Athens, Ben attended UGA’s prestigious Cortona program, an intensive fine arts study-abroad program located in Cortona, Italy.
This film is one of six Emerging Pictures films to be presented at the GE Theatre at Proctors throughout the summer. Emerging Pictures is a filmed entertainment company for the digital age. Representing the fusion of independent film methodology and the latest digital technology, Emerging Pictures is a major supplier of original content to traditional media outlets and a pioneer in aggregating content for future delivery systems, including its own network of digital theaters that are being created inside of existing arts institutions--Emerging Cinemas.
The use of digital technologies creates cost efficiencies in distribution and exhibition that enable Emerging Cinema outlets to present specialized content such as international film festival presentations, first run independent/international films, high definition productions of concerts, operas, live theater, documentaries, as well as children's programming and other educational programs.
The Emerging Pictures films will be presented on the GE Theatre’s massive screen that is 56 feet high and 34 feet wide, the same screen used for Proctors iwerks films. The GE Theatre is acoustically tunable with moveable draperies along the rear and sidewalls. When drawn across the walls, they deaden the reflection of the sound off of the walls, as is required for motion picture presentation.
The Schedule for the Emerging Pictures films are as follows…
- Sunday, May 4, 2008 at 4pm & 6pm: Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037
- Monday, May 5, 2008 at 3:30pm, 5:30pm &7:30pm: Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037
- Saturday, May 17, 2008 at 7:30pm: The Singing Revolution
- Sunday, May 18, 2008 at 4pm & 6:30pm: The Singing Revolution
- Monday, May 19, 2008 at 3pm, 5:15pm &7:30pm: The Singing Revolution
- Saturday, May 24, 2008 at 7:45pm & 10pm: The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival
- Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at 7:30pm: The Band’s Visit
- Thursday, June 5, 2008 at 3pm, 5:15pm & 7:30pm: The Band’s Visit
- Friday, June 6, 2008 at 8pm: Bruce Springsteen With the E-Street Band: Live in Barcelona (Special Ticket Price $10)
- Thursday, June 12 at 3pm, 5:15pm &7:30pm: Pete Seeger: Power of Song
- Friday, June 13, 2008 at 7pm & 9:30pm: Pete Seeger: Power of Song
Tickets for Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037 at the GE Theatre at Proctors on Sunday, May 4, 2008 at 4pm & 6pm and Monday, May 5, 2008 at 3:30pm, 5:30pm & 7:30pm are $6. Tickets are available at Proctors Box Office (518) 346-6204 and online at proctors.org. This film has a total running time of 81 minutes.
This performance is made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state Agency.