

While her work often brings her to New York - she teaches at Juilliard - she makes her home in Berlin with her partner, Sharon, an accomplished violinist played by the superb German actor Nina Hoss. Tár runs more than 2 1/2 hours, but I found it mesmerizing - not just as a character study, but as a thoroughly persuasive portrait of the insular and competitive world where Lydia holds sway. The writer-director Todd Field has a masterful understanding of time himself. We also learn about her devotion to great composers like Mahler and great conductors like Leonard Bernstein, and about her thoughts on how conductors shape and manipulate the flow of time.

This scene and others are a feast for classical music buffs: We learn about all the orchestras Lydia's conducted, the music she's composed, the films she's scored, the books she's written and the many awards she's won.
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The movie begins in Manhattan, with Lydia in a lengthy onstage conversation with the New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik. But Blanchett makes you believe in Lydia's genius immediately, before we've even seen her pick up a baton. A lot of movies about artists - even real-life artists - have a hard time convincing you of their characters' accomplishments. To play the fictional role of Lydia Tár, world-renowned conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, Blanchett learned to conduct music, play the piano and speak German - not all at once, thankfully, though I'm sure she could if called upon to do so. Backed By A Giant Company - Young Chang pianos come from the giant Hyundai development corporation, one of Korea's largest companies providing rock solid warranty support.Cate Blanchett plays a world-renowned conductor in the film Tár.īy this point, we don't need any reminders of what a great actor Cate Blanchett is, but we have one anyway in her new movie, Tár. Floating Soundboards - Young Chang/Weber is one of only 2 piano makers today that incorporate this unique design feature which allows the soundboard in the piano's bass area to vibrate more freely and produce more tone.ģ. His designs created for Young Chang the ability to say designed in the USA.Ģ. Del Fandrich Designs - When American piano designer Del Fandrich was asked to re-design the entire Young Chang piano line it was totally unprecedented for a big company to give a designer carte blanche to do the designs he wanted. WHY HOLLYWOOD PIANO LIKES YOUNG CHANG PIANOSġ. We believe that these pianos are not only strong competitors at the Consumer-Grade level, but that they compete against a number of the European pianos that Fine ranks as Performance-Grade pianos. Young Chang focuses on high quality entry and mid-level pianos, and has reached the Upper Level of Larry Fine's book with its Albert Weber pianos.
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Park immediately hired world renowned American piano designer and former head of design at Baldwin, Del Fandrich to completely redesign and upgrade every piano the company builds.

Today, it is owned by Hyundai Development Corp., When Hyundai bough the company they installed as CEO BJ Park who is best-known as the CEO who dramatically improved the quality and fortunes of Hyundai Motors making it one of the most respected car makers in the world. Over the years, it has manufactured pianos for Baldwin (their Wurlitzer line), PianoDisc (Knabe), Steinway (the Essex brand), Schimmel (Fridolan) amongst others. By the end of the 1970s, it was exporting pianos to the U.S., and also started establishing OEM relationships with other companies. Young Chang moved aggressively into piano manufacturing.
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In 1964, Young Chang began manufacturing Yamaha brand pianos under license for the domestic Korean market, and, in 1975, Young Chang ended that relationship to focus on its own brand of pianos which were becoming highly regarded all over the world. Young Chang was founded in 1956 by three brothers, Jai-Young Kim, Jai-Chang Kim and Jai-Sup Kim, who started off as distributors for Yamaha pianos in Korea.
