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| New Accompaniments To The Silent Films The Silk Road Ensemble, jazz trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, and poet Robert Pinsky, create contemporary accompaniments to three great silent films in October at Rubin Museum of Art, New York. To coincide with its second anniversary in October, RMA has commissioned three different accompaniments to three groundbreaking films from the silent era. These are among the 140 different public programs and events being presented by RMA in October, which also celebrate the October 13th opening of Building the Collection: Acquisitions 2005 - 2006. On Friday, October 6, D.W. Griffith's monumental epic, Intolerance, will be accompanied by a new score composed by Wycliffe Gordon. The film is part of a 19-film series on tolerance and acceptance, inspired by the teachings at the heart of the Sikh religion and accompanies I See No Stranger: Early Sikh Art and Devotion, an exhibition that explores beliefs and values of early Sikh humanism. The Silk Road Ensemble (part of the Silk Road Project, founded by Yo-Yo Ma and in residence at RMA from October 7 - 14) will create new music to accompany the first full-length animated film ever made, The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926). Based on the tales of the Arabian Nights, this silent film will be screened on Friday, October 13. The artist Lotte Reiniger's groundbreaking technique uses an exotic array of silhouette figures cut from black card to animate the film. On Wednesday, October 18, Robert Pinsky and two other actors will read a script drawn from the poet's translation of Dante's The Divine Comedy, to accompany the Italian silent film L'Inferno. The film is loosely adapted from Dante's masterwork and is inspired by the illustrations of Gustave Dor. Its trick photography was startling for 1911. L'Inferno took three years to finish and is, at 71 minutes, regarded as the first full-length Italian feature film. Violinist Gil Morgenstern performs Bruce Saylor's Dante Suite as a prelude to the performance. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |