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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 pianist/ organist for the Museum of Modern Art in New York for the last 24 years. In 2006 he co-curated MoMA's Arbuckle retrospective, "Rediscovering Roscoe" (along with Steve Massa and MoMA's Ron Magliozzi). Ben is a regular accompanist at the annual "Silent Film Days" festival in Norway and the "Fall Cinesation" in Massillon, OH. Ben is the producer/ accompanist for the popular NYC-based "Silent Clowns Film Series," which he co-founded with Bruce Lawton now in its 12th year of programming. Ben's recorded scores can be heard on on Kino's Edison, baseball and Houdini DVD sets, AllDay's new "American Slapstick 2" set, as well as several DVDs from UnknownVideo and ReelClassic DVD. He has had orchestral scores for films by Chaplin, Keaton and Nell Shipman commissioned by the Boise Philharmonic and the New York Ragtime Orchestra. Earlier this year Ben launched the first online service to download alternate musical scores for silent films on DVD, www.altscore.com. 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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