''Small Wonders'' (also known as ''Fiddlefest'') is a 1995 American
documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...
about
Roberta Guaspari
Roberta Guaspari (born September 15, 1947) is an American violinist and music educator. She is known for her work in Harlem, New York, where she taught during the 1980s and 1990s to keep music alive in inner-city schools. She was portrayed on fil ...
, a music teacher in East Harlem who teaches underprivileged children how to play the violin. Produced and directed by Allan Miller, it was nominated for an
Academy Award
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for
Best Documentary Feature.
Participants
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Roberta Guaspari
Roberta Guaspari (born September 15, 1947) is an American violinist and music educator. She is known for her work in Harlem, New York, where she taught during the 1980s and 1990s to keep music alive in inner-city schools. She was portrayed on fil ...
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Arnold Steinhardt Arnold Steinhardt (born 1937 in Los Angeles, California) is an American violinist, best known as the first violinist of the Guarneri String Quartet.
Steinhardt made his debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of 14. He studied ...
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Isaac Stern
Isaac Stern (July 21, 1920 – September 22, 2001) was an American violinist.
Born in Poland, Stern came to the US when he was 14 months old. Stern performed both nationally and internationally, notably touring the Soviet Union and China, and ...
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Itzhak Perlman
Itzhak Perlman ( he, יצחק פרלמן; born August 31, 1945) is an Israeli-American violinist widely considered one of the greatest violinists in the world. Perlman has performed worldwide and throughout the United States, in venues that hav ...
* Deborah Meyer
* Sid Massey
* Kyle Haver
* Barry Solowey
* Lucy Matos
See also
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Music of the Heart
''Music of the Heart'' is a 1999 American biographical film, biographical musical film, musical drama (film and television), drama film directed by Wes Craven and written by Pamela Gray, based on the 1995 documentary ''Small Wonders''. The film i ...
'', a 1999 drama film based on ''Small Wonders''
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1995 films
1995 documentary films
American documentary films
Documentary films about music and musicians
Documentary films about education in the United States
Documentary films about New York City
Films set in Harlem
East Harlem
1990s English-language films
1990s American films
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