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THE LEGACY

"Best Documentary" at the 2009 Palm Beach International Film Festival.

Director: Andres Faucher
Writer: Kevin Allen Jackson
Producer: Andres Faucher
Director of Photography:  Raquel Fernandez
Editor: Rita Da Silva, Kevin Allen Jackson
Original Music: Bela Bartok, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Richard Strauss
Cast: David Arben, Emilio Vincente Argento, Paule Marjolaine Bodson-Clermont
Genre: Documentary, Music

Synopsis: THE LEGACY explores the hope, dignity, and joy that the pursuit of excellence engenders in a human being. It is a roadmap for understanding how hardship and alienation help us define our true calling in life. Journeying to 31 cities in 11 countries throughout the Western Hemisphere and Europe, THE LEGACY follows the lives of nine young musicians as they tour South America with The Youth Orchestra of the Americas (YOA), and then return to their hometowns. THE LEGACY includes live performances by the YOA and its internationally acclaimed guest soloists under the direction of three respected conductors, including Gustavo Dudamel (recently featured on “60 Minutes” and named Musical Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic), Carlos Prieto, and David Robert Coleman. Additionally, THE LEGACY features the stories of Ludwig Colombani - a destitute 9-year-old boy from Margarita Island who, as fate would have it, just happened to be sitting next to a violin on the day the film's crew accidentally met him - and Mr. David Arben, the former Associate Concert Master of the Philadelphia Orchestra and a world-renowned violin soloist. David is survivor #14088 of the Flossenbürg concentration camp in Flossenbürg, Germany, and he tells the incredible story of how music literally saved his life in THE LEGACY. 'A truly remarkable and penetrating review of the role music has played, does play and will always play in our lives. 

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Screenings:
Sunday • Avalon Theatre • 4:00pm • 98min • Panel Q&A
Q&A with Producer Director Andres Faucher and David Arben. Also appearing will be Abraham Feder, this summer’s YOA principal cellist.
Abraham Feder, Cello: In 2008, Abraham Feder took his position as Principal Cellist of the Sarasota Orchestra and cellist of the Sarasota String Quartet.

He attended The Curtis Institute of Music and studied with David Soyer and Peter Wiley. He served as Principal Cellist of the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, the Curtis Chamber Orchestra and the Curtis Opera Orchestra.

Abraham was chosen as principal cellist of the New York String Orchestra Seminar at Carnegie Hall. He also served as principal cellist of the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras. As a youth, Abraham spent five summers as a member of the Disney Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra. During that time, he was selected to serve as principal cellist of the Disney Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival at Avery Fisher Hall.

Abraham has performed solo with the Northwest Symphony Orchestra, the Chicago Youth Concert Orchestra and the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra. He was a prizewinner in the Primary, Junior and Intermediate Divisions of the Society of American Musicians and received an Honorable Mention in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Feinberg Competition.

Abraham has been featured as a soloist on “From the Top,” and has been presented in recital with “Music in the Loft.” He has participated in the Rush Hour Concerts at St. James Cathedral in Chicago and was featured in 2007 on WFMT’s “Impromptu.” He was also featured in concert with Christopher O’Riley at the Laguna Beach Music Festival. He has performed with artists Richard Hirschl, Brant Taylor, Kenneth Olson and Yuan-Qing Yu of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO); Rami Solomonow and of the Chicago Chamber Musicians; Stephen Balderston former Assistant Principal cellist of the CSO; Joseph Silverstein; and Leonidas Kavakos.

Abraham has performed in master classes with Janos Starker, Wolfgang Laufer, Yehudi Hanani, Truls Mork, Carter Brey and Eleanore Schoenfeld.
Abraham’s teachers have included Richard Hirschl and Tanya Carey.

Abraham spent the summer of 2008 at the Colorado College Music Festival and the Vail Valley Music Festival.

Abraham plays on a 1785 Joseph Odoardi cello.


SINGLE SCREENING
$8 – available before Sat., 9/19 • $10 at the door

 
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