Feel the fire. Feel the passion. Watch the journey. Check out the trailer now for PLAYING WITH FIRE: JEANNETTE SORRELL and the MYSTERIES OF CONDUCTING. See the film on June 9th.
A journey unlike any other you’ve seen as two-time Academy Award-winner Alan Miller takes us into the life and behind the scenes of Grammy-award-winning conductor Jeannette Sorrell with PLAYING WITH FIRE: JEANNETTE SORRELL and the MYSTERIES OF CONDUCTING.
SYNOPSIS: Jeannette Sorrell, after being told by the Juilliard School and the Cleveland Orchestra that no one will hire a woman conductor, forms her own Baroque orchestra, Apollo’s Fire. She shows us how she can transform the notes on the page into musical sounds in her ear and express them with her gestures to the musicians. PLAYING WITH FIRE is a study of the conductor’s art. It takes us inside the musical imagination of this acclaimed conductor. It explores the intensely private as well as the public activities of a conductor, with never-before filmed scenes of Sorrell preparing a score, then drawing her conception of the music from the orchestra in the almost magical process that is rehearsal and performance.
Jeannette Sorrell is internationally recognized as one of the world’s most creative “early-music conductors” and credited by the U.K.’s BBC Music Magazine for forging “a vibrant, life-affirming approach to the re-making of early music…a seductive vision of musical authenticity.“ Leading her renowned orchestra, Apollo’s Fire, the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra, before sold-out concerts at London’s BBC Proms and Wigmore Hall as well as many other national and international venues, last season Apollo’s Fire made its Carnegie Hall debut. The concert sold out in one day. And not only does Sorrell conduct a Baroque Orchestra, but the musician’s instruments are also historical instruments, giving us an authentic musical experience through Sorrell’s conceptual scoring and conducting. Sorrell’s music is magic.
Available on digital platforms on June 9th
