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Musical Accompanists To accompany the many silent comedies to be shown during SLAPSTICON 2008, we are in the process of booking some very talented musicians. On the schedule is Philip Carli, who has been accompanying silent film since the age of 13. He tours extensively as a film accompanist throughout North America and Europe, and has performed at such venues as Lincoln Center and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the National Gallery in Washington, DC, the Cinémathèque Québécoise in Montreal, the National Film Theatre in London, and the Berlin International Film Festival. Dr. Carli performs annually at several film festivals in the United States, as well as at Le Giornate del Cinema Muto in Italy. Dr. Carli has recorded piano accompaniments to over seventy films for video release by the Library of Congress, a number of film and video companies, and for broadcast on the American Movie Classics and the Turner Classic Movies cable channels. He has most recently composed and recorded scores for Kino's edition of Peter Pan and Laughsmith Entertainment's The Forgotten Films of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. For more information about Dr. Philip Carli, go to http://www.carlimusic.com/. Also booked is Ben Model, silent film accompanist for the Museum of Modern Art in New York for over 20 years. This year he co-curated MoMA's Arbuckle retrospective "Rediscovering Roscoe" (along with Steve Massa and MoMA's Ron Magliozzi). Ben is the producer/accompanist for the popular NYC-based "Silent Clowns Film Series", which he co-founded with Bruce Lawton and which launches its 10th season this fall. Ben's recorded scores can be heard on over a dozen releases from ReelclassicDVD, as well as on Kino's Edison set, Laughsmith's "Industrial Strength Keaton" and Milestone's upcoming Charley Chase set. He has had orchestral scores for Chaplin and Keaton shorts commissioned by the Boise Philharmonic and the New York Ragtime Orchestra. For more information about Ben Model, go to http://www.silentfilmmusic.com/. We will keep you posted about other accompanists as they are added to the SLAPSTICON 2008 schedule. |
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