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Cast. Meryl Streep as Roberta Guaspari. Aidan Quinn as Brian Turner, Roberta's love interest. Angela Bassett as Janet Williams, the school principal who champions Roberta's cause. Gloria Estefan as Isabel Vasquez, a teacher who becomes one of Roberta's earliest allies.
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Oct 29, 1999 · Music of the Heart: Directed by Wes Craven. With Meryl Streep, Cloris Leachman, Henry Dinhofer, Michael Angarano. After Roberta Guaspari separates from her husband, she receives encouragement from her mother to take up a job of a music teacher at the Central Park East School in East Harlem.
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- Drama, Music
- Wes Craven
- 1999-10-29
She was portrayed on film by Meryl Streep in Music of the Heart (1999), written by Pamela Gray for which Streep was nominated for an Academy Award as Guaspari. Guaspari was also the subject of the 1995 documentary Small Wonders. As of 2017, she is still an instructor of violin with Opus 118 in New York City. Life and career
Jun 3, 2024 · Music of the Heart is a 1999 biographical musical drama film directed by Wes Craven, depicting the true story of Roberta Guaspari, a violinist who co-founded the Opus 118 Harlem School of Music and advocated for music education funding in New York City public schools. The film stars Meryl Streep, Aidan Quinn, Gloria Estefan, and Angela Bassett.
Oct 29, 1999 · Meryl Streep stars as Guaspari, a mother of two whose husband leaves her. On her own, she has hard times in the job market; she's gift wrapping presents in a department store one day when she's spotted by an old friend ( Aidan Quinn) who knew her in her days as a gifted music student.
Jun 13, 2020 · “Music of the Heart” tells the story of real-life teacher Roberta Guaspari as she rebounds from a painful divorce and moves to New York with her two sons to start what’s become the hugely popular East Harlem Violin Program.
"Music of The Heart" is based on the true story of Roberta Guaspari, a teacher who -- when the funding for her violin program was stopped by the New York public school system -- refused to...
