"The top-of-the-line of film pianists!"
"Donald Sosin eschewed a traditional score in favor of a mix of blues, boogie-woogie, stride and swing that perfectly matched the film's jumping tempo and brought much of the crowd to its feet at the end." — Michael Schlesinger, SONY Classics
Coming Soon
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- Friday, November 25, 7 p.m. — Donald and Joanna present a Silent Comedy series at Norfolk CT Library
- Friday, December 2, 7 p.m. — Donald and Joanna present a Silent Comedy series at Norfolk CT Library
- Friday, December 10, 5:30 p.m. — Donald at The Museum of the Moving Image Astoria
- Friday, January 6, 7 p.m. — Donald and Joanna present a Silent Comedy series at Norfolk CT Library
New on DVD:Two Chaplin extra features! Criterion's May release of THE GREAT DICTATOR includes a clip from KING, QUEEN, JOKER, with Sydney Chaplin in an early version of the famous barbershop scene from his brother's later sound film. And ALL AT SEA, a 1930 home movie by Alistair Cooke, with Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard, is a special feature of the 2-disc digital restoration of MODERN TIMES, also from Criterion; The Docks of New York (1928) dir. Josef von Sternberg. Score by Donald Sosin and Joanna Seaton, with a new theme song, "My Lucky Day." (Criterion)"... a must-have boxed set…one of the most beautifully produced DVD sets of the year." — Dave Kehr, NY Times
Also on DVD: Bucking Broadway, dir. John Ford (Criterion); Wild Rose, dir. Sun Yu (San Francisco Silent Film Festival); 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
For information on recordings and booking live performance, contact:
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41 Horseshoe Lane
Lakeville CT 06039
Tel: (860) 435-4687
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