The glorious anomaly of deaf music virtuoso Evelyn Glennie comes to
life in Thomas Riedelsheimer's "Touch the Sound." This vibrantly tactile
kaleidoscope of sound, sight, silence and humanity at its most affecting
is due at the SF International Film Festival, Sunday afternoon, April
24, in the Castro Theater.

Riedelsheimer (of "Rivers and Tides," http://tinyurl.com/brb5a) travels
the world with the charismatic, disarmingly honest Glennie, from her
native Scotland to the Santa Cruz surfing scene, Japan, England, New
York...  Not quite to the extent of the struggle Thomas Quasthoff had
to win on his way to improbable success, Glennie had her own tough
challenges, and - like Quasthoff - never shows the slightest sign of
self-pity.  She and the film are all about music, passion, and joy -
and yet nothing is sugar-coated.

Glennie - who has performed in San Francisco several times, and will
return to Herbst Theater on May 15 (http://tinyurl.com/dxccr) - is seen
and heard in the film in preparation and performance of strange and
wondrous works with Bay Area guitar virtuoso Fred Frith (who had provided
the soundtrack to "Rivers and Tides").  Japan, England, California and
New York.

A propos the SF film festival, here's yet another reminder that the
Brazilian documentary "Nelson Freire" will be shown in the Kabuki Theater,
Apr. 24, May 1 and 3 (http://tinyurl.com/bswn2), and - plugging a
non-music-related, but must-see film here - Arnaud Desplechin's "Kings
and Queen" (http://tinyurl.com/9v5d6) is coming to the Kabuki on April
22, and to the PFA on April 24.

Janos Gereben/SF
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