Music This bioscientist moonlights as a pianist who creates silent-film scores. Pianist and film historian Jon Mirsalis will provide live accompaniment to a selection of silent films at the ...

Piano Provides Earful For Silent Movies To commemorate the 120th anniversary of the birth of Charlie Chaplin, Morning Edition looks at the history of silent film music.

“I’d seen silent movies when I was in New York and I’d seen them with a pianist, somewhere down in the Village. I was 16. It was just kind of in the back of my mind, ‘Oh this might be a ...

Traveling silent movie pianist Richard Hughes brings smiles to audiences around New England 02:51. NEWTON - It's an era of filmmaking rarely explored in today's age of CGI movie marvels, but one ...

In a collaboration among the CU Boulder College of Music and Program in Jewish Studies—as well as the Boulder Jewish Film Festival, Boulder Jewish Community Center and Congregation Har HaShem—renowned ...

Silent film pianist Ben Model will play for all of the shorts on Friday, and pianists Donald Sosin and Jeff Rapsis will play for features. Bill Beningfield and Marvin Faulwell will play the organ ...

To modern audiences the work of a silent-film pianist is often seen (or rather heard) as musical cliche. Often there's no need to explain what sort of film is on, the music tells us this is a ...

The Student Silent Film Festival was founded in 2017 by professional animator Ed Newmann, founder of Calabash Animation, professional pianist Derek Berg and Bill Allan, ...

Jazz history will come to life in the Bay Area when the black-and-white silent film “Louis” is paired with a live musical score by famed trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. The 2010 feature by director ...

KEARNEY — Pianist Rodney Sauer breathes life into century-old silent movies by providing a soundtrack of music. “These are some of the funniest movies ever made,” the musician said about the ...

Svigals, the renowned violinist and perhaps the world’s foremost klezmer musician, has collaborated with contemporary silent film pianist Donald Sosin on a score for the film, which they’ll perform ...

Silent film music composer and performer Jeff Rapsis, ... “And then in some cases, in small theaters, it really was grandma banging away at the piano, doing whatever,” Rapsis said.