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Posted: 11/2/2011
Elliott Sharp: Doing the don t
Produced and directed by Bert Shapiro
This film explores how a seventeen-year-old developed from
A National Science Foundation award-winning science geek
to an internationally acclaimed musician conductor and composer.
At the Venice Biennale, Sharp conducts premiere of his opera Em/Pyre .
In New York, he conducts Orchestra Carbon performing Quarks Swim Free .
See rare archival footage of Sharp and his orchestra at The Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1987 with his double-neck guitar.
Sharp with the renowned Sirius String Quartet and his acclaimed blues band Terraplane .
Hear artists and writers speak about this remarkable musician and his influences.
Additional features: In Sharp on Sharp , an interview with Frank J. Oteri, he talks about the music industry. Slabs, Plantars, Violinoids traces the development of his early hand-made instruments
You are going to hear something that you have never heard and whether you like it or not, it s going to inspire you somehow Lawrence D. Butch Morris, composer/conductor
Pheasants Eye Productions www.pheasantseye.com E-mail bertshap@gmail.com