“I was blown away at how beautiful it sounded and how well it fit the vintage of the piece.”
— Wade Chamberlain, sound engineer, on Donald Sosin's orchestral score for MANHATTA
Coming Soon
- Sunday, March 21, 6:00 pm — Nosferatu (Murnau). At the Tarrytown Music Hall.
- Wednesday, March 24, 7:30 pm — The Last Laugh (Murnau). At the Tarrytown Music Hall.
- Friday, April 9, 9:15 am — Orphan Film Symposium. Presentation: Silent Circuits. Origin of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata (Edison, 1909)
Rip’s Dream (La lègende de Rip Van Winkle, Georges Méliès, 1905)
A Poet from the Sea (China Sun Motion Picture Co., Shanghai, 1927)
School of Visual Arts, New York City. - Wednesday, April 14, 7:00 pm — Nana (Jean Renoir). At BAM.
- Friday, April 16 at 7:00 pm — The Salvation Hunters. At the Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge MA
- Saturday, April 17 at 7:00 pm — The Docks of New York. At the Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge MA
- Saturday, April 17 at 9:00 pm — Underworld. At the Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge MA
- Sunday, April 18, 1:00 pm — The Prisoner of Karlsten's Fortress (Fängen pä Karlstens fängelse). Swedish Films at the Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center.
- Sunday, April 18, 6:00 pm — The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Reiniger). At the Tarrytown Music Hall.
- Wednesday, April 21, 7:30 pm — Pandora's Box (Pabst). At the Tarrytown Music Hall.
- Saturday, April 24, 1:30 pm — Thomas Graal's Best Film (Thomas Graals Basta Film). Swedish Films at the Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center.
- April 29 – May 4 — Kurzfilmtage: Ten programs of short films from before 1918. Oberhausen, Germany.
- Saturday, May 29 — Robin Hood, with Douglas Fairbanks. Seattle International Fim Festival
- Sunday, May 30 — A Spray of Plum Blossoms. Seattle International Fim Festival
- More details on the performances and extended schedule
New on DVD: Sally of the Sawdust, dir. D. W. Griffith; A Man There Was, dir. Victor Sjöström and Georges Méliès: First Wizard of Cinema and Silent Ozu: Three Comedies, all with piano accompaniment by Donald Sosin. more >
Bringing Classic
Silent Films to Life
Recent appearances: Film Society of Lincoln Center; MoMA; San Francisco Silent Film Festival; Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone; Cinema Ritrovato, Bologna; Seattle Film Festival; Houston Cinema Arts Festival; Virginia Film Festival
"The top of the line of film pianists!" —Leonard Maltin, author and film critic
"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
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
Recordings and Live Performances
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Tel: (860) 435-4687
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