Like many others, Cate Blanchett used time during the pandemic to nurture some new skills. Piano. German. Conducting a symphony orchestra in Mahler’s Symphony No. 5. The result? The new film “Tár.”
Like so many people during the pandemic, Cate Blanchett used the time to nurture some new skills. She took piano lessons. She picked up some German. She learned how to conduct a top-tier symphony orchestra in Mahler’s Symphony No. 5.
“Tár” is a tantalizing example: an elite acting talent taking on a rarefied slice of the classical music world. The preparations Ms. Blanchett and her collaborators did behind the scenes mirrored aspects of the story, which involves the painstaking work of creation and rehearsal.In ‘Tár,’ Cate Blanchett plays the first woman ever to helm a major orchestra in Berlin.She began her own preparation with the basics.
Ms. Blanchett’s character is the first woman ever to helm a major orchestra in Berlin. It includes Tár’s wife, the concertmaster and a new Russian cellist whom the conductor appears to be grooming. As Tár prepares to launch a memoir and chips away at a new composition on a piano, she’s also preparing the orchestra for a recording of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony.
The real-life Dresden Philharmonic stood in for Tár’s Berlin orchestra in the film. Members of the Dresden ensemble were cast to play musicians involved in Tár’s workplace politics. Ms. Blanchett’s piano-playing served a similar purpose. In a scene where Tár leads a conducting seminar at Juilliard, she flays a student who rejects Bach as a misogynist symbol of the white-European-male hegemony.
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