“Vampyr” & “Phantom of the Opera” Silent Horror Films with Live Score
Musical Accompaniment by
Andrew Alden Ensemble
Saturday, November 2nd at 7:30pm
General Admission: $12 advance, $15 day of show
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Rejuvenating silent film classics with live music, the Andrew Alden
Ensemble brings an exciting new score to the remarkable German
expressionist film Vampyr.
Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Vampyr, based on a collection
of supernatural stories, portrays a densely layered vampire film with a
mesmerizing atmosphere and unsettling imagery. Allan Gray (Julian West),
a traveler obsessed with the supernatural and fascinated by the occult,
is assailed by various ghostly haunts and the evidence of vampires in a
village outside Paris.
The new score by the Andrew Alden Ensemble compliments the dreamlike
horror and ominous shadows of the film with experimental classical music
featuring piano, strings, synthesizers, percussion and electric guitar.
Performed live during the showing of the film the ensemble brings new
terror and tension to this cinematic classic.
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)–1 hour 32 minutes
The Andrew Alden Ensemble presents the 1925 silent horror film
adaptation of Gaston Leroux’s novel The Phantom of the Opera with a live
modern score.
This winter and spring, movie theaters and galleries across the US
will present The Phantom of the Opera accompanied by live musical
performers.
The Andrew Alden ensemble brings together a fascinating collaboration
of rock music and contemporary classical composition with electric
guitar, drum set, synthesizer, piano, violin and viola, updating
audiences’ experience with this horror classic.
