Yes it’s really interesting to know something about her “normal” life !!!
thanks Mariana

Great interview!

Liz: Only today.

Nice mention to holidaying in Morocco since she was a kid!

I also like Chopin most polonase a dur. I from Poland :). I end reading of Norwegian wood. Very good book. Eva know what is nice 🙂

Liz : 2nd movement of Pathetique Sonata is quite an exception (with maybe also the 2nd movement of Sonata Appassionata), it’s a peaceful piece with this melancholia always present in Beethoven pieces, but there’s something luminous, a kind of hope, something special that we can’t find in others movements or sonatas.
Beethoven was a very depressive man, but he always kept a little light in his pieces, to keep some hope, for example most of the time he never ended his sonatas peacefully but in a booming way (the end of moonlight sonata is impressive), because a peaceful end made him think about death.
That’s why I think that this exception which is the 2nd movement of Pathetique Sonata can correspond to Eva. She’s not totally dark, she’s a mix between the darkness of her hair and her clothes, and the brightness of her skin and her Persian eyes.

Concerning Beethoven’s sonatas, the Moonlight one is the most famous, you would all recognize the main theme. If I had a preference, it would be the 3rd movement of Sonata Appassionata : a very serene theme and a funny end.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=J0NhbkvUnX8

All sonatas are great and very technical pieces which need very high skills at the piano, especially fast movements as you can see.
They’re a great monument and inheritance in classical music, and one of the great works of Beethoven with his symphonies and string quartets cycle.

hey guys.. absolutely different subject but I just gotta tell you what’s up..
I’ll answer later, tango_down..
anyway, I was surfing thru the internet for about 3 hours (OMG… that’s too long) and now it is halb past five in the morning.. I ought to get some sleep but I just can’t!!!
I was looking for some new old interviews with eva, of course.. and I got across some quite interesting stuff…
unfortunately, I do not find everything I would like to see!!! actually a matter-of-fact but the amount of not-seen videos should get less, I would say…
then there is THE question of the early morning: Do you, Mariana, have many (or all, but that’s not really realistic) videos especially interviews with eva taht had been held once… I am especially looking for premiere interviews of LOndon and paris premiere of Casino Royale… AND world premiere of The Golden Compass…?? Please, help me!!
I hope I don’t bother you all too much but sometimes, I just can’t get enough of all this!!!!
in love (for EVA) LIZ

Hmmmm, weird… the interview has her stating that RIDLEY Scott is directing Cracks…huh? or maybe I just read wrong…

Tango_down: Nocturne, definitely…

I’ve read Norwegian Wood too and I loved it…

Thank you so much for your link: http://youtube.com/watch?v=klZYv-f9kCE
TangoDown, it was beautiful. I also listened to parts 1 & 3, and saved them as a playlist on my YouTube account! 😉 😀

fx_razor : in fact, the “Grande Polonaise Brillante” is at the extreme end of the movie, during the end credits (you had to stay in the cinema or not stop the DVD yet to watch it lol) :

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9mI3tcOYxyo&feature=related

The shot on the pianist’s hands is great 🙂

PS : the piece Szpilman plays in front of the nazi officer is Ballade N°1 in G Minor, Op. 23 😉

Lola : it’s great to have continued your discovery on the 2 others movements. I love the 1st one with its low and romantic introduction, then it starts suddenly fast with a melodious main theme.
You can also continue your discovery on others Beetov’s sonatas (moonlight the most famous, “les adieux”, appassionata) 😉

Mariana: I have signed for me photo of Eva. This is link http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll24/fx_razor/eva.jpg Could you add this in gallery? I will be wery happy

EvaAnne: good discovery. I wish that Eva occassionally reads EGW’s comments, ESPECIALLY THIS ONE (capitals to attract her attention…)

…hello… =)
well, I just want to say good-bye for about 10 days that I will not be able to post any comments!
I am leaving for Spain tomorrow. Hopefully, I can check the news segments for the following week, at least!
Have a nice time and feel yourself to be greeted from Lloret!!!

Liz: A lot of trips lucky girl… Have a nice time in Spain (I am sure you will if Barcelona is in the schedule). (Maybe you can meet Eva in some airport!!!)

Monique : lol your anecdote is very funny, thanks to share it with us 😀
I also dissected a frog when I was in lower secondary school (in france we call it “college” but that is not the same “college” in anglo-saxon countries, I mean the level). We had to open the body and to strech its limbs, fixing its with drawing pins. But mine was too streched, it gave a funny posture to the frog. That was my first steps discovering the practice of Art, even if it was a biology lesson.
Your lab partner has great culinary tastes 😀

So I have to add my apologies to yours

Tango_down: I’ve never had the courage to eat frog, particularly because of my fear of them (ranaphobia, is it?) Although I distinctly remember my parents ordering shark for me when I was younger and me eating it…
Hoppy was too limp to be pinned and we had to skin him so we couldn’t pin him down…

Tom: I know…lucky you…at least the cats waiting for us to dissect them will already be dead…as if that’s any consolation…

Poor Hoppy died of strangulation when my partner squeezed him to death trying to hold him still long enough for me to insert the pithing needle…

EUUUUUURGH!!!!