Maestro - English

Identity and self-growth?

1) Old habits / close close-mindedness, and ignorance prevent growth, and only when you embrace change and openness can you fully understand your identity and evolve.

2) Decisions can have a significant impact on one’s growth

3) Places and time play an important part in catalysing growth

4) Personal Growth is natural and can not be forced

5) Personal growth can happen when you face the things you fear or hate.

Close-mindedness, and ignorance prevent growth, and only when you embrace change and openness can you fully understand your identity and evolve.

“Those are my family … My sons name was Erik and my wife’s name was Mathilde”

“A fork in the path of my life “

“SM ABT KELLER BEING CLOSED OFF”

Decisions have a significant impact on ones growth

“Do it … No meaning forever”

*Paul decides not to ask the waitress to spend the night with him”

“A fork in my life”

*Paul goes to Vienna to learn about Keller” - By going to Vienna, Paul is walking into the very history and cultural setting that shaped Keller. This decision hints that Paul may one day understand the emotional and moral depth behind Keller’s pain and teaching. In that way, Vienna becomes not just a location, but a bridge between mentor and student—a place where Paul might finally comprehend what Keller tried to impart.

Personal Growth is natural and can not be forced

“Still murdering butterflies Reid?”

*putting his little pins in teh butterflies

“You’ve really filled out Paul … Had I?”

Personal growth can happen when you face the things you fear or hate.

“SOMETHING ABOUT PAUL’S NEW FRIENDS

“Keller playing for himself for the first time?”

“Those are my family … Eric and Mathilde”

Mentorship - H.V

1. Humans want the best for each other

2. Humans shouldn’t coddle their loved ones so much

3. We learn best when we make our own informed choices

Mentorship - Ideas

1. Mentorship is universal and doesn't focus on one aspect of one’s life

2. Mentorship comes in many forms and doesn;t always appear to be helpful

3. Good Mentorship includes being honest to your mentees and not coddling them from the truth

1. Mentorship is universal and doesn't focus on one aspect of one’s life

“You must be prepared for the end of the world”

*John is incessantly making Paul practise piano

“To search for too long can paralyse”

2. Mentorship comes in many forms and doesn;t always appear to be helpful

"Is water at 50 degrees half boiling?”

“You are spoilt, first you must learn to listen”

“Keller’s podgy baby hands taught me the shallowness of such judgements”

3. Good Mentorship includes being honest to your mentees and not coddling them from the truth

“Judges were german … so much younger than your competition … How much of a safety net keller was”

“Better a small hurt now than a wasted life”

“You are one in a thousand, but a concert pianist is one in a million”

Ideas for Love

1) Love doesn’t have to be romantic to be powerful, as mutual love can have the same effect

2) Love can provide a sense of solace in times of need

3) The shared love humans have for other things can bring them together.

1) Love doesn’t have to be romantic to be powerful, as mutual love can have the same effect

“You'‘ve been like a father to me”

“My affection for you does not depend on those small things”

“Your a good boy, of course you must come in”

2) Love can provide a sense of solace in times of need

“Cuddles from my daughter and Rosie’s leg draped over mine”

“You're a good boy, of course you must come in”

3) The shared love humans have for other things can bring them together.

“Music seemed nearer to love making”

"Polar opposites” John and Nancy but with music they found love

“I hated her … pest … looser… Pulse lurched and changed tempo, accelerando”

Ideas for Betrayal

1) Betrayal reveals that humans can be disloyal to people they don’t care about

2) Humans can betray other even with the most purest of intentions

3) Betrayal is a point of weakness for humans

1) Betrayal reveals that humans can be disloyal to people they don’t care about

“I knew you’d tell him… You’re that sort of person… the name slipped out of my mouth”

“She had not meant for me to be beaten”

“Where’s reggie, suddenly no one wanted to meet my eye … Reggie’s out and the sound of the north is in”

2) Humans can betray other even with the most purest of intentions

“She always seemed to tel me exactly what I wanted to hear”

“I had betrayed Keller… If he wanted to remain dead to even his friends, who was I to expose him”

3) Betrayal is a point of weakness for humans

“I wrote to him infrequently” … “I have to be off… the sexual solvent present overwhelmed the past ”

“terrified that I might lose her… I love you very much… there will never be anybody else”

Ideas for Isolation/Alienation

1) Isolation is a mechanism for escape or penance

2) isolation is created out of past choices or experiences and can often lead to alienation

3)Isolation can limit perspective/scope and opportunity

1) Isolation is created through past experiences or decsions and can often lead to alienation

“In the entire town… the slates of Edward Keller’s room remained closed”

“he had two choices to become invisible or so visible that nothing coudl touch him”

“Unmistakable…stood out like a standard member of the orchestra…white suit and panama could not be missed”

2) Isolation is a mechanism for escape and penance

“The designated Music room was my refuge”

“Arsehoel. ofteh earth…what on earth was a man like him doing in a place like this… his exile was chosen”

“Keller wished to remain dead even to his friends… I saw the number, six fade blue digits”

3) Isolation can limit scope and hold you back/confine you

“High School… isolated… like a quarantined station… 200 miles away from the next university”

Ideas for Beauty

1) Beauty is multifaceted and can deceive humans

2) Beauty is entirely subject to perspective

3) Deceitful beauty lacks nuance whilst true beauty knows undertanding and ventures deeper than teh surface

1) Beauty is multifaceted and can deceive humans

1) “She had not meant me to be beaten”

2) “Small, podgy. A pianist's hands. impossible. too decorative … the maimed claw released an effortless rippling of tenths”

3)” We must be on our guard around beauty always … Vienna was my home, it is my difficult to see evil in your own home”

2) Beauty is entirely subjective to perspective

1) “At first ifound occaisional pleasure in owning such as beauty”

2)”Arsehole of the earth … blasphemy” “I loved the town of booze and blow at first sight”

3) “a peeling wetheim … varnished crackling .. bubbling was to be mine”

3) Deceitful beauty lacks nuance, whilst truthful beauty knows understanding and ventures deeper than the surface

1) “Only those capable of ugliness can be beautiful”

2) “Rosie Zollo.. listened to me play … asked questions … I hated her”

3) “Suspicious of always of rehthetoricaloirc beauty”

Ideas for Past

1) The past offers perspective through experiences

2) The past shapes and moulds who we become

3) The past can hold people back

1) The past offers perspective through experiences

1) Keller's scrapbooks that reflect his perspective on society as a result of his own past experiences

2) “He liked to entertain … big strong sound… he hates the romantics’ empty rhetoric he calls it”

3) “The past folds up into neat lines and assembles itself … Those childhood pleasures that had lost some of its joy”

2) The past shapes and moulds who we become

1) “Opened some fountain in him … Tattoed serial numbers”

2) “he was a passionate vurturso … if we were discussing the same man, how different our two were … perhaps not the same man in a sense”

3) Paul cheats on Megan, and then his past decisions shape him into a better person, and he turns down the opportunity when it presents itself to him again.

3) The past holds people back

1) “Keller said he was too old…fixed habits”

2)” Your father never had your opportunities … we lost so much time in the war”

3) “He blamed himself entirely”

Ideas for the importance of music

1) Music acts as a medium for people to express or communicate their feelings

2) Music is a way people can find common ground and form connections

3) Music can provide a sense of solace and stability in an unstable and forever-changing world, but its absence can be detrimental.

1) Music acts as a medium for people tt express or communicate their feelings

• “The music seemed closer to love making than music”

• “Pulse leaps and changes tempo, accelerando… Wagner shimmers like sunlight”

• “Battle of mind and heart … a duel… reached in and lifted you”

2) Music is a way people can find common ground and form connections

• “The D flat major… The G minor… their opinions as black and white as the notes on the keyboard . . .  and yet how happy they seemed”

• Paul teaching Rosie how to play “looser” despite hating her

• “Music was another glue”

3) Music can provide a sense of stability and peace within this unstable and forever-changing world, but the absence of it can be detrimental.

• “After the war, there was no time for music. If he seems hard on you, it’s because of that”

• “The music room became my refuge during lunch times”

• Keller's two pianos, centred in his room, kept him sane and grounded