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The silent-film era provided moviegoers with the experience of experimental film combined with a live orchestra. Eastman School of Music composers and musicians will bring this experience back to life in conjunction with seven films from the archive of the George Eastman House. The program, “Old Films and New Music,” debuted in Berlin in January, hosted by the Kurt Weill Festival.
The performance is at noon Monday, April 25, in Ingle Auditorium at Rochester Institute of Technology. The event is free and open to the public.
“Today’s encounter of young composers with old films essentially repeats what was attempted back in the 1920s,” said Reinhild Steingröver, associate professor of German at the Eastman School and curator of the program.
Eastman School of Music composers Michaela Eremiáöová and Jairo Duarte-López wrote the scores to the 1920s films of Bauhaus master and avant-garde artist László Moholy-Nagy, silhouette animator Lotte Reiniger and documentary film director Walter Ruttmann.
Reiniger’s animated films will kick off the program. Most of the program will be dedicated to Moholy-Nagy, with Ruttmann’s film, “The Victor ,” also being featured.
Accompanying the films will be musicians Anna Brumbaugh (clarinet), Anyango Yarbo Davenport (violin), Andreas Ioannides (piano), Jonathan Lo (cello), and Rick McRae (trombone). Duarte-López will serve as the conductor.
For more information on the event, e-mail sampph@rit.edu.
The silent-film era provided moviegoers with the experience of experimental film combined with a live orchestra. Eastman School of Music composers and musicians will bring this experience back to life in conjunction with seven films from the archive of the George Eastman House. The program, “Old Films and New Music,” debuted in Berlin in January, hosted by the Kurt Weill Festival.
The performance is at noon Monday, April 25, in Ingle Auditorium at Rochester Institute of Technology. The event is free and open to the public.
“Today’s encounter of young composers with old films essentially repeats what was attempted back in the 1920s,” said Reinhild Steingröver, associate professor of German at the Eastman School and curator of the program.
Eastman School of Music composers Michaela Eremiáöová and Jairo Duarte-López wrote the scores to the 1920s films of Bauhaus master and avant-garde artist László Moholy-Nagy, silhouette animator Lotte Reiniger and documentary film director Walter Ruttmann.
Reiniger’s animated films will kick off the program. Most of the program will be dedicated to Moholy-Nagy, with Ruttmann’s film, “The Victor ,” also being featured.
Accompanying the films will be musicians Anna Brumbaugh (clarinet), Anyango Yarbo Davenport (violin), Andreas Ioannides (piano), Jonathan Lo (cello), and Rick McRae (trombone). Duarte-López will serve as the conductor.
For more information on the event, e-mail sampph@rit.edu.
