Brahms and the Little Singing Girls

This is Palmers highly controversial portrait of Brahms a film that exploded the familiar image of stodgy old bearded Brahms a man whose first musical experience had been playing an upright piano in the brothels of Hamburg where he had grown up and who at the end of his life lived a bachelor in Vienna having his every need satisfied by the prostitutes of the city whom he always affectionately described as his little singing girls It is a celebration of Brahms unabashed lifeenhancing sexually explosive music Warren Mitchell portrays the composer