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During a master class at Juilliard, Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett) reacts badly to a non-binary student of color (Zethphan Smith-Gneist) saying that he can’t relate to white male cisgender composers. She plays this Bach prelude from The Well-Tempered Clavier on the piano.
[LYDIA]
Come, Max, indulge me. Let's allow Bach a similar gaze. Sit! Now this is all filigree, right? I mean, it could be a first-year piano student. Or Schroeder playing for Lucy. Or Glenn Gould, for that matter. Now, it’s not until it changes that you get inside it, that you hear what it really is. It’s a question and an answer which begs another question. There’s a humility in Bach. He’s not pretending he’s certain about anything ’cause he knows that it’s always the question that involves the listener. It’s never the answer, right? Now, the question for you is, what do you think, Max?
[MAX]
You play really well
The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 846-869: Prelude in C Major, BWV 846 (Lesson / Excerpt) was written by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Cate Blanchett released The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 846-869: Prelude in C Major, BWV 846 (Lesson / Excerpt) on Fri Oct 21 2022.