Open Rehearsal with Helix Collective

Join us as we make our final preparations for our sold out Music with a Movie Camera live music-to-film concert!

Please RSVP here to attend the rehearsal. With your ticket you can drop by at any time during the rehearsal to the Glorya Kaufman Community Center at the Wende Museum and stay as long as you would like to observe.

Explore the Wende Museum and its exhibits before or after your visit to our rehearsal.

Get a backstage view as we put the finishing touches on the music and ensure everything is running smoothly to perform live music-to-picture. Watch as our conductor, musicians, and technical team put everything together in real time!

ABOUT HELIX COLLECTIVE

Helix Collective are classical musicians busting out of the traditional mold. From crossover dance music, to storytelling, to film, television, and video game music, the Los Angeles-based ensemble takes the best of classical chamber music and makes it the life of the party.

Variety Magazine praised Helix Collective’s musical range moving from “moody urgency and edgy chamber-music sound” to the “sweetly romantic evoking wide-open spaces.”

Helix “has a little something for everyone: those who like their classics straight up, with a contemporary edge to it, or with populist appeal.” Called “dizzyingly virtuosic with exquisite musicianship and world-class range” by The Free Times and praised for “beyond-the-ordinary programming.”

Like the double helix, the ensemble is rearrangeable, flexible, and fuses the DNA of classical music into worlds where it’s never gone before.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM WE ARE REHEARSING

The performance is currently SOLD OUT but you can join the waitlist to attend the concert here.

Helix Collective’s 10-piece film-music ensemble is rehearsing original soundtracks from Soviet films from the 1920s-80s and by composers from the Soviet Union - live to film highlights.

Music from iconic films including “It’s a Wonderful Life” with a score by Dimitri Tiomkin, "Man with a Movie Camera," one of the earliest depictions of the cities of Ukraine on film, “The Gadfly” with music by Dimitri Shostakovich, "The Cranes are Flying," and "The Snowstorm."

The upcoming performance is made possible in part by the City of Culver City and its Cultural Affairs Commission, with support from Sony Pictures Entertainment and by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture through the OGP grant program. Thank you to our 2024 Season Sponsors, BMI and Spectra Creative Agency!

EXHIBITION AT THE WENDE

Before and after the rehearsal, attendees will be able to visit the Fall Exhibition at the Wende Museum - UNDERCURRENTS II: ARCHIVES AND THE MAKING OF SOVIET JEWISH IDENTITY

Undercurrents II: Archives and the Making of Soviet Jewish Identity tells the story of how an underground community of dissident publishers ignited a cultural revival among Soviet Jews that spread around the world. This exhibition displays Soviet Jewish samizdat (self-published work), letters, art, and ephemera from the private archive of a leader of the Soviet Jewish underground in the 1980s. These materials advance our understanding of how this persecuted minority group transformed into a global social movement, how the Soviet Union’s government attempted to prevent this transformation, and how Western powers like the United States sought to support the Soviet Jews and their plight.

Undercurrents II: Archives and the Making of Soviet Jewish Identity is generously supported by Arcadia, the Koum Foundation, and Alexander Smukler.

Host or Publisher Helix Collective