Encountering BACH: a documentary film (2020) David Chin
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ธ.ค. 2020
- In this 130-minute documentary film, conductor Dr. David Chin will be joined by 15 prominent German Bach scholars and musicians and visit the important Bach-landmarks throughout Central Germany, discovering the interesting stories and wonderful music of Johann Sebastian Bach, with musical excerpts performed by renowned musicians from Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, the United States, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and others. This film project was entirely self-funded by Dr. David Chin. If you would like to support this project, please visit paypal.me/davidchinmusic
中文版《追踪巴赫》: • 《追踪巴赫》紀錄影片 (2020) 陳子虔 ...
Filmed by Moses Lim
Produced by David Chin & Bachfest Malaysia
Host:
Dr. David Chin, Founder & Artistic Director of Bachfest Malaysia
Co-hosts:
Dr. Prof. Michael Maul
Artistic Director of Bachfest Leipzig & Musicologist at Bach-Archiv Leipzig
Dr. Manuel Bärwald
Musicologist & Researcher at Bach-Archiv Leipzig
Special Guests:
Dr. Anselm Hartinger, Director of City Museums of Leipzig
Dr. Jörg Hansen, Director of Bachhaus Eisenach
Dr. Jürgen Ernst, Director of Mendelssohn-Haus Leipzig
Gotthold Schwarz, Thomaskantor & Director of Thomanerchor
Ullrich Böhme, Organist at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig
Jörg Reddin, Organist and Music Director at Bachkirche Arnstadt
Frances Falling, Researcher and Singer at Schumann-Haus Leipzig
Christian Ratzel, Köthen Kultur und Marketing GmbH
Christiane Schmidt, Historian at Mendelssohn-Haus Leipzig
Christian Stötzner, Organist and Music Director at Georgenkirche Eisenach
David Erler, Countertenor, Leipzig
Wolfram Lattke, Tenor, Leipzig
Julia Sophie Wagner, Soprano, Leipzig
Judith Rüber, Director of Arnstadt Summer Bach Festival
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Ensembles featured:
Malaysia Bach Festival Singers and Orchestra
Hong Kong Bach Festival Singers and Orchestra
Thomanerchor Leipzig & Gewandhaus Orchestra
The Netherlands Bach Society (All of Bach)
Bach Stiftung of St. Gallen (Rudolf Lutz)
Eastman School of Music Bach Ensemble
Eastman-Rochester Chorus
Eastman School Symphony Orchestra
Chinese University of Hong Kong Christian Choir
Ensemble Virama
Sing and Sign
Camerata Lipsiensis
Sächsisches Barockorchester
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David Chin's website: www.davidchinmusic.com
Bachfest Malaysia's website: www.bachfestmalaysia.com - เพลง
0:00 Prelude: Introduction
3:25 Childhood in Eisenach
11:22 First job in Arnstadt
21:39 Sensational discovery in Weimar
26:51 The Weimar period
29:45 Bach’s favourite prince in Köthen
35:14 Anna Magdalena
38:52 Lutheran vs. Calvinist
42:28 Arrive in Leipzig
44:29 St. Thomas School & Boys choir
51:35 St. Thomas Church
56:58 Cantatas 1: Reception and the copyists
1:07:18 Cantatas 2: Martin Luther and the chorales
1:13:51 Bach the Conductor
1:14:26 St. Nicholas Church
1:18:04 St. Matthew Passion
1:24:37 The Collegium Musicum
1:27:12 The Leipzig Town Council
1:30:00 Instruments in Bach’s time
1:38:58 Bach’s ideal choir and orchestra
1:45:44 The Bach Revival in the 19th century
1:59:25 Bach’s grave
2:01:51 Bach’s great faith
2:08:40 Postlude: Bloopers and credits
Thank you very much for this wonderful documentary. I watched all the short episodes but it is lovely how it has been put together. I love Bach and know the History but watching this documentary has been fascinating and has brought it all to life. Congratulations!
I am totally captivated by this presentation. That you so much!
I love the way you think
Hi guys, could you tell me what's the name of composition begins on 00:09?
Bachs Goldberg Variations, first part "Aria"@@taranazamanova4335
This documentary is a gift to those who love Bach's music, and to those who will discover him through this amazing work. Thank you David Chin and team!
Yes! The entire documentary is wonderful. Made my Sunday pandemic light, sweet and full of colors. Thank you again, Mr Chin!
Learn all you want, listen to all his music, and there will still be the enigma that is Bach.
David Chin, what a wonderful documentary for Bach. You not only admire his music with a detailed knowledge of Bachs music but you have a good eye for these wonderful small former East German towns. From Eisenach to Ohrdurf to Arnstadt, Weimar and Köhten.
I'm biased because I've been listening to Bach since I was in the womb. Bach is the Einstein of music. Period.
I have been playing, singing, conducting and teaching Bach all my adult life and have seen and read countless documentaries and biographies, as well as visiting the places associated with Bach in Thuringia. So I was amazed how much new material cropped up in this film, such as the actual scores written in Bach’s hand, and the difference between the interior of the Thomaskirche in Bach’s time and now. Thank you for such an absorbing and moving survey!
Bachfest Malaysia! How I love the very idea of this. Bach is for the world, the whole world!
Bach was the slickest player the music game, a real ompositional genius and Maestro legend.
He composed some of the best pieces of all time, set the bar of musical standards and still does today.
Bach was a busy man as the Music Director of Leipzig, having have to compose cantatas every week for Sunday service for 4 churches.
They say that the Japanese are consummate interpreters of the music of J S Bach; it's grand seeing Malaysians also revering Bach. Great documentary. Cheers
The Japanese? Says who? I never heard that.
@@djmotise Never heard of Masaaki Suzuki then...?
This was the best documentary I have ever seen period! So many people brought together by a common love that transcends time and space.
How many of us feel at home in Bach's Music? I think there a very many of us and we encircle the globe. Long may it be so.
Thanks for the tribute to J.S.B.! After watching the video twice, I am really amazed by the information. My personal point of view is that J.S.B. the greatest composer ever!
Almost a miracle in these noisiest times, such long and excellent documentary about our beloved JS is released.
In the middle of enjoying "Bach in the castle of Heaven " by John Elliot Gardiner, this is a great complement.
Dear Sergio, Thank you so much for joining us for this film, and we are glad that you enjoyed it!
By pure coincidence I stumbled upon this documentary - several years after its release. What a fantastic production! It is the best video on Bach that I have ever seen. Excellent work - with so many interesting interviews and visiting so many nice places - with direct or indirect connection to the fifth evangelist - the greatest composer that ever lived. Thanks David Chin for this wonderful program!
I'm glad people are still finding this magical perfect piece of art that is this documentary.
This is an incredibly well-produced documentary. PBS should be rushing to broadcast this program.
John, thank you so much for watching and your encouragement!
100% right ^ and the BBC too!
Love Bach, Love Germany. Great Respect!
Thank you for this wonderful tribute to JS Bach. My favourite composer! My personal definition of his greatness is he put Mathematics in Music and made it sacred, pure and everlasting.
Can't thank you enough for this masterpiece of a documentary. It's so important to give credit where credit is due. There is no more sincere way to show humility than showing appreciation to the beautiful efforts made by our ancestors. They truly have impacted the way we live today for the better through the power of faith and music. I enjoyed every second of this!
Your comment so perfectly expresses my own sentiments about this gift of a production, all I can add is my agreement.
Calm down nonce
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS
I've loved Bach for decades, and sometimes I feel I hardly know him or know his music.
Thank you.
Thank you for watching and your comment, dear Matthew, and we do hope that this film has brought you a little closer to Bach. :-)
As well as wanting to listen to and re listen to lots of compositions of Bach I would really love to travel round and see some of these places where Bach spent his life. Here is to me doing it while there is still time!
How cool that you interviewed David Erler! I saw him singing the Mass in B minor on the Netherlands Bach Society TH-cam channel recently and I remember thinking he has one of the most beautiful voices I’ve ever heard.
I find it fascinating that most of the greatest German artists came from this same region near or in Thuringia. You can literally make an oval from Kassel and Gottingen in the west, right through all of Thuringia, and end the oval east of Dresden. Weimar, of course, is where Johann von Goethe lived most of his life, along with a bunch of other literary artists like Friederich Stiller. Then you get the great musicians like Bach and Tellemann. Wagner was born in Leipzig. And then there is, of course, the great artistic capital of Dresden, which gathered so much art from throughout Germany. The famous Meissen factory was nearby, churning out those marvelous porcelains that have become renown throughout the world. It's weird, how this small region catapulted the whole of Germany into the arts.
Kassel is in Hessen
Göttingen in Niedersachsen
Dresden in Sachsen
Greetings from Thuringia
Also Samuel Hahnemann, the great Doctor and inventer came from Meissen.
This is a wonderfult introduction to Bach's life: musically, historically and theologically informed. I'm in the middle of reading John Elliot Gardiner's excellent biography, and this complements it very well. I was really impressed that as the presenter and producer David Chin gave the other scholars and musicians so much room to give their explanations, and asked them exactly questions that I wanted to ask them. I was also struck by the way that nearly everybody in this video was a lot younger than me! Somehow my previous experience of Bach interptetors is that they were always dusty old men! Thank you, David Chin for a really illuminating video.
Dear Christopher, thank you so much for taking time to watch the film and write these encouraging comments! I am so glad that you enjoyed the film! :-)
Beautiful documentary, Bach had and still has the power to bring people together throught beautiful music, the heavenly music.
Thank you for this beautiful, dedicated film.
Soli Deo Gloria
As a violinist and someone who loves classical music, I watched this documentary and I truly loved it! It’s definitely a very special documentary about J.S Bach and his life. It really inspired me a lot! :)
This is, by far, the best program I have ever watched on TH-cam. Thank you so much. I only wish it were two or three times longer.
Amazing doc. I love how passionate and knowledgeable these Thuringians are about Bach.
I do wish we had Bach society, or baroque music at large, here in Indonesia. I'd love to try a harpsichord at least once in a lifetime.
We hope to welcome you at one of our concerts in Malaysia in the near future!
indonesia and music? , didn't seems fit anywhere in this dimension lol, they rather listen to 24 /7 preach than 4 bar of music, looking for music appreciation there good fucking luck
Dr. David, I'm very happy TH-cam suggested your film to me today. It filled my heart to overflowing seeing you explore Leipzig, giving us a chance to hear from the experts, and then knowing that you will take the experience home to continue your work as evangelist and ambassador of Bach's music to Asia. Let me know if you ever come to Texas. Vielen herzlichen Dank!
Dear Howey, thank you so much for your kind words and encouragement! I hope that we will have an opportunity to meet in the near future! :-)
Thank you David Chin for this excellent overview of Bach's life, music and character. Seeing the actual locations and documents, along with invaluable insights from so many scholars, really bring Bach to life. The only problem with Bach is, the more you know about him, the bigger he gets! Schumann was right - you will never be through with Bach.
What an amazing gift in every way--a stream of wonderful performances, surveying a fine series of Bach's enormous oeuvre, and a solid documentary history of a man who, arguably, tops the list of musical genius in the European Common Practice tradition, and in my opinion, perhaps all of European intellectual history. Thank you so much, Professor Chin! What an accomplishment.
I am studying about Bach at the moment and this is the ideal documentary I found ! Thank you so much for sharing this 😊 !
Klaus Eidam wrote the BEST biography: Das wahre Leben des Johann Sebastian Bach 1999 THE TRUE LIFE OF J.S. BACH Eidam gets right what all other biographers got wrong.
Thank you so much for this wonderfull contribution. I wish some day to travel into those places where Bach grow up.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for this, kind sir! I have been studying Bach since I was 6 years old. He has been with me through all my life's best and worst moments. Thus, I have a developed a really personal connection with his music which I thought I couldn't truly share with anyone until I saw in your documentary the people's eyes the same love that I have for him
I am so glad that we share the same love for Bach and his music! Thank you for watching the film and sharing your thoughts!
I went to Leipzig as a pilgrimage and to visit the children and grandchildren of friends. It is a very special place , and the family was extraordinary. The children were cousins of cousins and showed musical genius. They were all totally hospitable, but the atmosphere was of a different time. I hope they have had a wonderful life! The music I experienced was sublime.
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The music of JSB, from a tiny "Dorf" in Germany, it has permeated the hearts of all the world. Thank you.
Hi David, we visited some of the places you filmed in 2017, the Luther anniversary year: the Wartburg, Eisenach and Eisenach, as well as Leipzig. We were delighted to revisit those places and Weimar and Koethen with you, which we could not get to, and meet the interesting, knowledgeable people you interviewed along the way. It filled out our Bach - Luther pilgrimage a lot, so thank you very much indeed for posting it here for the whole world to enjoy. We also enjoyed the musical contributions you chose and loved the energy and enthusiasm, fun and depth you brought to it and the presentation.
Thank you so much for joining us on this journey of "Encountering Bach" and your very kind and encouraging words! I am very happy to hear that you enjoyed the documentary. :-D
What a phenomenal documentary. 👍🏾🙏🏼
Thank you so much for your kind comment!
Imagine [!], actually, living in a place where such beautiful music is played; can you?
I have saved this and will watch it on a relaxed Sunday afternoon with my family
Thank you, Yian Q. We hope you that you and your family will enjoy it!
I’ve kept waiting to attend to your concert since discovering you this year. Ah but covid!!!
This is one of the best documentaries about Bach professionally made by Chinese Malaysian. I am so proud of you!
Thank you for sharing this. I don't even listen much to classical music, but Bach is different. I've been trying to figure out what type of person composed these sublime masterpieces which seem almost made by God...I am an atheist, but listening to Bach I believe.
this is a fascinating documentary, and the Malaysian choir and orchestra do beautiful work! Thank you!
Thanks so much for this unique documentation. All too often you have artificial over-dramatization, special effects, dumbing-down, sensationalizing. This instead is having some of the most excellent Bach experts share their knowledge with us, full of details, letting us follow in Bach's footsteps. So fascinating and interesting, you learn so so much in two hours.
This is one of the most profound Bach documentaries I have ever watched.
Congratulations and many thanks to Malaysia!
I learned more about Bach than anywhere else. - Greetings, Heinz
Thank you so much for watching and your kind comment!
@@BachfestMalaysia - Honor where honor is due. :)
I just love this documentary! And may I say how much I love your pronunciation of the "ch" in Bach, Eisenach and other words, as well as our umlauts "ö" and "ü". Absolutely perfect! Hats off to you, Dr. Chin.
Thank you so much for joining us and your very kind words! :-D
@@DavidChinMusic Thank you for your kind reply! Your documentary gave me the possibility to "visit" the most beautiful places of the former GDR without leaving the house and on top of that I was able to watch the best Bach documentary ever - and I watched many! :)
Loved this - Great documentary - I went on a Bach trip in 2013 and it was wonderful to see all those places again and special Köthen because it was under renovation that year so we did not go there.
Glad you enjoyed it, Örn! Thank you for joining us!
Wonderful documentary by David Chin. A must-watch by all students of JS Bach. Great gift thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it, David! Thank you for joining us!
Ok I learned more watching this than* during 5 years of music school. Amazing work, now I need to go to Liepzig ahah
Thank you so much for watching and your encouraging message, dear Claudio! And yes--we hope that you get a chance to visit Leipzig soon!
J S Bach is the father and we dedicate music enthusisasts all over the world are his sons and daughters.
I enjoyed this so much. Bach is my favorite composer and like they said at the end, we can never get tired of his sublime music. I’m so grateful that I was able to visit many of the places where he lived and worked. And I’m grateful that I can play his music on cello and piano.
This film is a gift, because I will be in Eisenach for a business trip soon when I surf on Google map, and accidentally discovered a spot close to my reserved hotel as Bachhaus Eisenach, then I connect this film via TH-cam, and was amazed by this wonderful documentary, you just made my trip more expecting and multiple meaning. Thank you 🙏.
I can’t praise this highly enough. Magnificent indeed. It shows that Bach’s music and faith can and do go everywhere.
David Chin is a great teacher. I hope all the musicians from the excerpts from Hong Kong are all safe. Would love to hear them live.
Thank you so much for this great tour of Bach’s life and music.
Thank you so much for watching the film and your very kind words, Stephen!
Let me tell you now, this is going to go down in history as the most comprehensive and passionate documentary ever made on the greatest composer (greatest human?!!) to ever live. David, you and your team have created this masterpiece and I will share it with others for years to come.
Thank you so much for watching this film and your very kind and encouraging words, and we really appreciate your offer of sharing it with your friends.
@@DavidChinMusic Thank you for the very kind reply! You are absolutely brilliant and portray a similar enthusiasm for Bach as many of us listeners have!
Definitely agree! 'Greatest human' Even greater than Einstein.
Leonardo da Vinci is reckoned to be the greatest genius of all time.
@@DavidChinMusic I will share with my students!
I happened upon this documentary by accident and was simply blown away by the breath of the subject. For my taste it was superbly presented. By the end, I saw the MAN and not a presenter getting in the way of the subject. In this age of iPhones, computers, microwaves, what a genuine pleasure to have this information unfold before us at a leisurely pace.
Absolutely blown away by the quality and content of this documentary! Well done, Dr. Chin!
Thank you so much for watching and your very kind comment, Lauri Lou! :-)
Wow… this is possibly the best and most detailed Bach documentary I have viewed… excellent work Mr Chin! 谢谢你
I absolutely love this film and will recommend it to many people. The history of Bach comes alive and it is as if we are allowed to be there ourselves. Congratulations on a wonderful documentary. It looks as if you had a lot of fun making it as well.
Thank you, Inge. We are glad that you enjoyed it and thank you for joining us and sharing it to your friends!
Thanks a lot for this wonderful film. I've never seen such a comprehensive documentary on Bach in German TV, looks like we need a Malaysian to teach us about our own history ) Btw your pronounciation of the German names is absolutely flawless.
Your comments are too kind --Thank you! Maybe I should go improve on my German so that maybe we could make one in German next time! :-D
ich wollte das Selbe schreiben...
We may never have the complete collections of J S Bach work available to the general public at large without the accidental discovery of his St Matthew Passion by the 18th year old Felix Mendelssohn.
I find watching the footwork of the organist while he plays Bach really fascinating.
Thank you for this video of my favourite composer. Some of my best memories are of my years as a Bach Choir member and performing his glorious music.
This is wonderful! Viva J S Bach!
Thank you! :-)
A wonderful production. Thank you, Dr. Chin and Bachfest Malaysia.
Dear Jim, thank you so much for watching and your kind words. :-)
Wow, this is a really great documentary. So informative! Bach has inspired me to write music, fugues bring out such a primal response from me, almost feeling glee. I would love to visit Leipzig and see for myself where he was inspired.
Amazing video which does not simplify to increase clicks. For non professionals lovers of Bach, the majority of course, this is a challenge to grasp, without avoiding technicalities and details, what musicologists do, what musicians do, and why. Dr David Chin is a passionate and exemplary teacher. Lived in beautiful Leipzig some years ago and was hoping to see more footage of this amazing city of art and music and philosophy where Leibnitz taught and Nietzsche was a student. I was fortunate to live across the street from the Thomaskirche, wish I could take a bike down to Clara Zepkin Park right now!
Lovely idea fans, bravo bravo bravo big big like congrats, loving amazing Bach is never enough
Having been reading Music in the Castle of Heaven by John Eliot Gardiner for the past whole week, I am so glad to end my “pilgrimage” with this wonderful documentary. This documentary obviously shares John Eliot Gardiner’s devotion to Bach’s music. Both will help enhance our understanding of the external environment and inner world of Bach in different periods of his passionately musical life.
Haiming, Thank you so much for joining us on this journey of encountering Bach, and your lovely comments!
This was fantastic. So well done.
Thank you, Matt!
According to Klaus Eidam he was not in a rage he was defending himself. The six attackers were the spoiled rich brats; the ringleader got a simple reprimand, the others no punishment at all. The ornamental rapier was part of court dress. "He drew it and went for his attackers. They had reckoned on his fear, not on his determination---and in the end they ran away." "One well-aimed blow on the hand with a cudgel, and Bach's life might have taken an entirely different course." The True Life of J.S. Bach, pp35-37
I love Bach’s music very much. This documentary helped me to understand his great composer and his compositions!
Very thing is beautiful in this documentary!
Thanks so much!
Our pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it!
1:43:07-1:43:10 Bravo 👏 ♥ You got the truth on actual size of Bach choir right here on TH-cam. When we can accept period instruments, and many other things as the right choice, when Bach researchers feel that they are as meticulous as scientists, so, go all the way ,don't be afraid that you could be wrong sometimes. If you use recent tradition to perform Bach chorus with 16 persons, said so.
Thank you so much for this wonderful documentary. Its really a privilege to watch this on youtube for free. Your style of Interviewing is very sensible and brings out the genuine excitement of these interesting people. All the best to you. Regards from Switzerland
Thank you so much for watching the film and your very encouraging comments. It means a lot to me. I am so glad that you enjoyed the film! :-)
David, I keep my fingers crossed for the premiere performance of this great achievment!
Outstanding documentary, to watch again and again...mille mercis du Canada....by the way the bloopers were great.
Thank you, Mario! :-)
I always love finding new documentary's about my favourite composer.
Fantastic documentary. For a long time now I have enjoyed playing and listening to J.S. Bach. I join the rest of the world in celebrating this great legend. And he always dedicated his music "To The Glory of God"... Amazing influence worldwide even now so many centuries after his death. May God be Praised.
Thank you so much for watching the documentary and your lovely message, dear Allan!
This is a fantastic documentary, interesting and informative! Thank you.
On a tour through the St. Georgenkirche in Eisenach some years ago I came across a wall plaque in the nave on which were listed in chronological order all of the organists who had served there. And was astonished to observe that for a span of 150 years every last incumbent of that position bore the last name Bach. And that in just one small Thuringian town!
Wow! This was an amazing documentary. Thank you for making it available for all of us.
This is a wonderful documentary. I never knew that Bach was so popular in Malaysia.
What humans could do without mobile phones and social media distraction...incredible.
I'm so excited to have stumbled across this just now! I can't wait to set aside the time, get into the proper state of mind, and enjoy this documentary.
Wonderful, Anne! We hope that you will enjoy the film! Welcome on board!
Bravo. A proper tribute to Bach this is. So well and thoroughly done. A life long service of musical interpretation of the gospels for the masses brings a whole new level of appreciation of JS Bach's divinely inspired work. Glory to God alone.
Extraordinary, high quality documentary. Very well done. Thank you very much.
What a wonderful video, and so refreshing that the narrator stayed in the past tense as appropriate.
What a fantastic documentary!! So well researched and well put together to give the audience a greater understanding of who Bach was as a person and why his music so greatly revered by so many.
Such a beautiful and eloquent documentary. Thank you David Chin and Moses Lim for making this film, and also for generously making it available to everyone!
Thank you so much for watching and your very kind comments! 😀
What a wonderful Documentary on Bach. The interviews, the locations where Bach resided and work and of course the beautiful music. 2 hours well spent. Terima Kasih David Chin! From a student of Bach in Toronto.
Thank you so much for watching the film and your kind comment, Clare!
Soli Deo Gloria. Thank you for making this wonderful documentary available. Not a believer but Bach makes me a believer, that one should work and live for a larger vision.
At 1:57:39, it is interesting to note that Bach's left hand pocket is turned inside out. The creator of this statue wanted to remind us that in spite of being regarded as the world's greatest composer, J.S. really had no money throughout his lifetime. This documentary brings out the true human side of a man whose music we sometimes consider to have come from another universe. Thank you David Chin!
Thank you so much for this brilliant work!
Wonderful documentary about the Greatest ever lived! 💜
Magnificent !
This is the best documentary on Bach that I have ever seen.
A true masterpiece giving us an authentic taste of his life and times
... oh, and the best soundtrack ever !!! Congrats, respect and thanks to David Chin & all.
Thank you so much for watching the film and your very kind words! I am really glad that you enjoyed the film! :-)
@@DavidChinMusic As a violinist who plays and teaches plenty of Bach, of course I know what little there is to know about Bach the man, but to really bring him to life like that was invaluable. A hidden treasure of a documentary.
Really, really wonderful documentary
Wonderfull documentary. One of the best i saw. Thank you very much to post.
Thank you! :-)
Very enjoyable and informative. Top notch contributions from the Malaysian artists.
Glad you enjoyed the film, Michael! Thank you for joining us!
I discovered this wonderful documentary just before Christmas, 2020, and got so much from it that I watched it again (twice) over the Christmas holiday, and again since. Congratulations, and thank you, to David Chin and all involved in the production.