Has anyone seen this film of Gitlis?

[lwl]

http://www.france.diplomatie.fr/culture/fr...rie/film06.html

Found this on a websearch. Sounds fascinating...

The sample clip on the website has Gitlis teaching a student the first movement of the Tchaikovsky, though he only makes enthusiastic noises in the minute-long clip. The narration is in French -- I'm very curious what it means, if one of our French-speaking Maestronetters would care to translate?

[Mu0n]

"This precision in playing, this mastery of the instrument - Wing [not sure about his name] has had to acquire them [not totally sure about verb tenses]. One is not born with a violin in one's hands.

Most people move around their fingers with a precision down to the millimeter scale, in a quarter or half of a second. A [trained] violinist can manage a precision of a few tenths of a millimeter, and play a note every tenths or twentieths of a second.

Wing needed years to accomplish this, years during which his nervous system has had to change. By producing music, emotions and dreams, how dare we evoke an organ that weighs 1,500 grams? This is Wing's brain that we see here, thanks to a technique called magnetic resonance imagery."