Silent Film Music By Ben Model

episode 11: song cues gone wrong, scoring One Week, Lee Erwin, silents in schools WelcomeSilent Film Sound and Music ArchiveLibrary of Congress shows: Leap Year, The Patent Leather KidCinema Arts Centre show: Linda, dir Dorothy DavenportRecording: Patent Leather Kid, live in performance at the LoC Packard Campus Theatre, on their Walker digital theatre organRules of the Game: when existing music must be used…but no longer worksRecording: excerpt of Lee Erwin playing his score for America, dir DWG, on a Wurlitzer Theatre OrganOn scoring One Week, borrowing a leitmotif device from Mussorgsky, and squelching inadvertent audience reactionRecording: audience of 4-5 year olds watching Oranges and Lemons with Stan Laurel, on a Yamaha uprightUpcoming performances: 35th annual Cinefest, Toronto Silent Film Festival, cinema studies classes at Columbia and NYU, and more.Closing