New silent film music
Hi, all...just wanted to let you know I have finished the music for the new Ozu set coming out in April from Criterion. These films are really wonderful, and I hope you'll enjoy the 20's style music. The features are I WAS BORN BUT... , PASSING FANCY and TOKYO CHORUS. They will all have Japanese and English titles.
The gigantic Méliès set will hit the street (where it will likely bounce off, explode, turn into flowers and grasshoppers and so forth) in a couple of weeks. My contributions to the set are:
THE ASTRONOMER'S DREAM 4 min
CINDERELLA (1899 version) hand colored 5 1/2 mins
CHRISTMAS DREAM approx 4 1/4 min.
A CRAZY COMPOSER 5 min.
THE GOOD SHEPHERDESS AND THE EVIL PRINCESS (13'31")
THE NEW LORD OF THE VILLAGE (8'48")
NOT GUILTY (9'59")
THE MISER (4'50")
SIGHTSEEING THROUGH WHISKEY (5'35")
[UNIDENTIFIED FRAGMENT] (1'30")
CAKEWALK INFERNAL (5'19")
JUSTINIAN'S HUMAN TORCHES 548 A.D. (2'56")
SOAP BUBBLES (2'30")
THE MERRY FROLICS OF SATAN (11'34").
Finally, Bruce Posner is putting the finishing touches on a gorgeous digital restoration of MANHATTA, and I am in the process of revising and orchestrating the synthesized score I wrote for the the UNSEEN CINEMA collection. The music will be recorded in March in Slovakia by a fine 40-piece orchestra conducted by my dear friend Peter Breiner, and TCM will screen the film sometime later this year. Watch this space for details, as well as my website, htttp://www.oldmoviemusic.com
Live performances coming up: POTEMKIN at the Harvard Film Archive Mar. 17, Uchida's POLICEMAN (KEISATSUKAN) at BAM Apr. 29, and EVERLASTING LOVE with Lydia Borelli at BAM May 13.
Finally, if anyone knows of a DVD of EXIT SMILING that can be shown publicly, I would be very grateful. There are film versions available through Eastman and BFI, but the theater I am working with only has platters, and the archives won't allow them to be shown that way. And there is no room in the booth to bring in 16mm for the occasion. Please help! Thanks.
The gigantic Méliès set will hit the street (where it will likely bounce off, explode, turn into flowers and grasshoppers and so forth) in a couple of weeks. My contributions to the set are:
THE ASTRONOMER'S DREAM 4 min
CINDERELLA (1899 version) hand colored 5 1/2 mins
CHRISTMAS DREAM approx 4 1/4 min.
A CRAZY COMPOSER 5 min.
THE GOOD SHEPHERDESS AND THE EVIL PRINCESS (13'31")
THE NEW LORD OF THE VILLAGE (8'48")
NOT GUILTY (9'59")
THE MISER (4'50")
SIGHTSEEING THROUGH WHISKEY (5'35")
[UNIDENTIFIED FRAGMENT] (1'30")
CAKEWALK INFERNAL (5'19")
JUSTINIAN'S HUMAN TORCHES 548 A.D. (2'56")
SOAP BUBBLES (2'30")
THE MERRY FROLICS OF SATAN (11'34").
Finally, Bruce Posner is putting the finishing touches on a gorgeous digital restoration of MANHATTA, and I am in the process of revising and orchestrating the synthesized score I wrote for the the UNSEEN CINEMA collection. The music will be recorded in March in Slovakia by a fine 40-piece orchestra conducted by my dear friend Peter Breiner, and TCM will screen the film sometime later this year. Watch this space for details, as well as my website, htttp://www.oldmoviemusic.com
Live performances coming up: POTEMKIN at the Harvard Film Archive Mar. 17, Uchida's POLICEMAN (KEISATSUKAN) at BAM Apr. 29, and EVERLASTING LOVE with Lydia Borelli at BAM May 13.
Finally, if anyone knows of a DVD of EXIT SMILING that can be shown publicly, I would be very grateful. There are film versions available through Eastman and BFI, but the theater I am working with only has platters, and the archives won't allow them to be shown that way. And there is no room in the booth to bring in 16mm for the occasion. Please help! Thanks.
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