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“Moonlight Sonata” is structured around the 11-year-old Jonas’s preparations for a recital where he plans to perform Beethoven’s titular work, a notoriously challenging 1801 piano piece.
When Beethoven composed the "Moonlight Sonata" in the summer of 1801 in Hungary, he did it for his young student whom he loved, 17-year-old Countess Giulietta Gucciardi.
At its core, the heartfelt documentary “Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements” is an intimate, often vérité look at how hearing loss affects three generations of a close-knit ...
At age 11 Jonas set himself the goal of playing the Moonlight Sonata’s first movement—a challenge for any budding pianist but especially for Jonas, who, like Beethoven, ...
Moonlight Sonata is a lovely, layered portrait of a family, which Brodsky has called “an ode to sound and silence.” After seeing it, you may agree that those are both gifts we shouldn’t ever ...
Reporter Ramona Shelburne told the story of Bryant's love for the "Moonlight Sonata" in a 2016 article published by ESPN. Shelburne explained that Bryant first learned to play it as a gift for his ...
A 14-year-old prodigy concert pianist played Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" from atop Griffith Park on Sunday night to celebrate a rare "supermoon" lunar eclipse.
Moonlight Sonata: Deafness In Three Movements is a fascinating look at how people who are hearing-impaired relate to the worlds of sound in silence in different ways, ...
“Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements” isn’t a thriller, by any stretch. It is a very moving film by veteran documentarian Irene Taylor Brodsky about deafness, music, raising ...