Coming Soon on DVD!
Georges Méliès: First Wizard of Cinema and Silent Ozu: Three Comedies, featuring piano accompaniment by Donald Sosin. Also, Films from Home Movie Day, Volume 1>more
Study piano online with Donald Sosin at WorkshopLive.com
The Art of Scoring Film — workshop in Syracuse, NY
If you've ever wanted to learn how to play the piano, here's a great opportunity to learn the basics with Donald. Entertaining and informative, simple to understand and thorough, his lessons will guide you through such topics as reading clefs, learning the names and position of notes, all the different rhythmic values of notes, the circle of fifths, scales, and more. You'll learn many favorite folk songs, and elsewhere on the site Donald also teaches you how to play great songs like "Sunshine of Your Love" and "They Can't Take That Away from Me."
Bringing Classic
Silent Movies to Life
Recent appearances: Pordenone Festival,Italy; Virginia Film Festival; BAM Rose Cinema; Lincoln Center Film Society
"Of all the musicians who play for the silent film today, Donald Sosin is for me the one who is most sensitive to the film he accompanies, the one who supports the film and never overpowers it." —Eileen Bowser, former Curator of Film, Museum of Modern Art, NY, film scholar and author
Articles
Great articles originally published in Mix and Chronogram about the making of
silent film music
Featured DVD and Video Performances by Donald Sosin
Donald Sosin’s scores can be heard for GEORGE MELIES, SILENT OZU, THE PEACH GIRL, UNSEEN CINEMA, HAROLD LLOYD COLLECTION 2, AVANT GARDE: EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA OF THE 1920s AND 1930s, SIREN OF THE TROPICS, THE FORGOTTEN FILMS OF FATTY ARBUCKLE, EDISON: INVENTION OF THE MOVIES, KING OF KINGS, SPIES, THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, NOSFERATU, LONG PANTS, BLIND HUSBANDS, TITANIC, and THE STORY OF FLOATING WEEDS. >more
Avant Garde Films a high point of 2005
Donald Sosin announces the release of fifteen new silent film scores for avant-garde films on DVD in the UNSEEN CINEMA 7-disc set from Image. Among the films is the first American avant-garde film, MANHATTA, by Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand, based on Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Listen to the synthesized orchestral score or view the film.
The other films in the collection include: Anemic Cinema (Duchamp), H2O (Ralph Steiner), Life and Death of a Hollywood Extra (Florey and Vorkapitch), Skyscraper Symphony (Florey) Pie in the Sky (Steiner, with Elia Kazan), Beggar on Horseback (excerpt with Edward Everett Horton), and A Bronx Morning (Jay Leyda), which was just chosen for preservation by the Library of Congress.
Little Red Jiving Hood
Granny’s girl gets some jump in her step for Little Red Jiving Hood. An interview with writer and director Ben Hillman; score by Donald Sosin. read the interview
Coming Soon
- May 13, 7:00 pm — LOVE EVERLASTING. At the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY.
- June 1, 12:00 am — THE PEACH GIRL. Turner Classic Movies. With scores by Donald Sosin.
- June 8, 12:00 am — THE GODDESS. Turner Classic Movies. With scores by Donald Sosin.
- More details on the performances and extended schedule
Recordings and Live Performances
For information on recordings and booking live performance, contact:
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