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 ...

“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 ...

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.

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 ...

“The pianist was in his 90s, and he was ready to stop. They said, ‘Do you want to accompany the silent films?’ I said, ‘Sure.’ It was performance art,” she said.

Pianist Adam Swanson plays piano to score silent films. When: 2 p.m. Sunday. Where: Henry Strater Theatre, 699 Main Ave. Tickets: $7 adult/$4 children younger than 12. More information: Call 375-7160.

It takes a sleuth, an archivist and, not for nothin', a pianist/organist to bring rare old silent films to a modern audience. Ben Model is all three. He uses a network of fellow silent-movie geeks ...

As silent film siren Clara Bow captivates, pianist Richard Hughes follows: Low notes greet her sorrow, high ones her cheer; down-the-keyboard trills reflect her flirty, playful nature.

Cartoons and comedies are tough on Stuart Oderman. Oderman, 66, is a silent-film pianist, one of the best in the business. He has been playing the scores to pretalkie black-and-white pictures for ...

Helen C. Dilger, 108, a former Chicago music teacher who played piano for silent movies as a teenager and collected compact discs as a retiree, died Saturday, Feb. 24, in Little Company of Mary Hos… ...

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 ...