A Surprise in Texas: The Thirteenth Van Cliburn International Piano Compe tition. DVD. Directed by Peter Rosen. [Germany]: EuroArts, 2010. 2058168. $24.99.
Peter Rosen's documentary A Surprise in Texas is about the 2009 Van Cliburn Inter - national Piano Competition, which was held in Fort Worth, Texas. There can be little "surprise" to the competition's outcome: judges awarded no third prize, but a second prize to Korean Yeol Eum Son and joint first prizes to Haochen Zhang and blind Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii. The filmmakers have tried very hard to recreate the suspense of being in the midst of the competition, and the results are generally successful, particularly when it …