A forgotten pianist
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In her excellent piece on pianos in cinema (“The towering ivories,” Jan. 5), focusing on the new film “The Pianist,” Scarlet Cheng found room for the names of Roman Polanski, Wladyslaw Szpilman, Max Ophuls, Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, David Helfgott, Jane Campion, Holly Hunter, Sigourney Weaver, Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Kahane and Christopher O’Riley, as well as those of Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, and the Fabulous Baker Boys.
Couldn’t she have squeezed in the name of the real-life pianist who played most of the piano music in “The Pianist,” the talented Janusz Olejniczak?
Monte Montgomery
Los Angeles
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