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'A Late Quartet' actress gets coached in finer points of playing viola by David Ng

The L.A. Philharmonic's principal violist showed Catherine Keener how to handle her instrument and fake playing convincingly as part of a string ensemble for 'A Late Quartet.'Having a Hollywood actor learn Beethoven's String Quartet No. 14 for a role is a little like asking a child to master differential equations — it's virtually impossible. But in the case of music, the task can be convincingly faked with the…

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 08:55AM on November 8, 2012

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