Berklee Silent Film Orchestra to Perform "Variete" Live-to-Picture at The Cabot

In its first-ever show at The Cabot, the Berklee Silent Film Orchestra (BSFO)—which recently drew a standing ovation from thousands at the renowned San Francisco Silent Film Festival—will perform a new score, live to-picture, for E.A. Dupont's 1925 silent film masterpiece Varieté, a tale of circus love, lust, trapeze artists, and murder, on Friday, June 17 at 8:00 p.m.

Tickets are available here, and are $25 (or $15 for students and seniors with online code Variete2016 and ID at door).

Doors open at 7:00 p.m. as the concert/film screening will be preceded by a short talk on composing and performing music for silent film by Sheldon Mirowitz, the BSFO’s Emmy-nominated artistic director and professor of film scoring at Berklee.

The 12-piece BSFO will perform, live and in-time to the picture, the new score to the film, featuring the work of an international group of six Berklee student composers who were selected for the project via a highly competitive process at the college: Nathan Drube (U.S.), Larry Hong (U.S.), Kanako Hashiyama (Japan), Austin Matthews (U.S.), Mateo Rodo (Argentina), and Hyunju Yun (South Korea).

Mirowitz says the BSFO's mission is to "have a collaborative experience with the audience to make a beautiful experience of a night."

Watch a video about the BSFO's creative process here:

https://youtu.be/OHeg2oGqUCk