Five Easy Pieces

Five Easy Pieces By Carole Eastman TITLE SEQUENCE: The Bach-Vivaldi A-Minor Concerto for Four Pianos PLAYS OVER a series of family album photographs. Written in careful penmanship beneath each are names identifying family members: 1ST PHOTO: A man stands in front of the raised sounding board of a piano, playing the viola. Seated on the piano bench, accompanying him, is a woman in a maternity dress: "Isabelle and Nicholas" 2ND PHOTO: A boy of 11, wearing conductor's tails and holding a raised baton in his right hand as if about to gesture a downbeat: "Herbert Kreutzer Dupea" 3RD PHOTO: Another boy of approximately 9, in the act of playing the violin: "Carl Fidelio Dupea" 4TH PHOTO: The two boys are now poised behind the piano. Seated on its bench is a girl of 6, her hands resting on the keyboard. Written beneath: "Elizabeth Partita Dupea" 5TH PHOTO: The above family group, seated on the porch of the Dupea home. All eyes but Isabelle's are faced toward the camera. She beams upon a 3 year-old asleep in her arms, his head resting against her bosom. His figure is encircled by the pen's marking and preceding his name is the configuration of a small heart: "Robert Eroica Dupea" INT. MUSIC ROOM - DUPEA HOME - DAY BACH-VIVALDI OVER: A 7-year-old BOBBY sits in a chair, his feet dangling in absent-minded rhythm to a chamber piece played by his father, his two brothers and his sister. CLOSE ON a metronome, marking a slow etude rhythm.