Silent Films of Buster Keaton w/Original Live Music by Not-So-Silent-Cinema

Name: Silent Films of Buster Keaton w/Original Live Music by Not-So-Silent-Cinema
Start: 2025-02-16T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Sharp 9 Gallery

Schedule

Sun, 16 Feb, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Sharp 9 Gallery | Durham, NC

“Cooney's original scores provide a 1920's urban-Americana soundscape that combines ragtime,
blues, bluegrass, Klezmer and hot jazz.” – Boston Globe
“You won't be able to hear a pin drop…And you are not likely to be able to sit still, either.” – Philadelphia Inquirer
Not-So-Silent-Cinema presents a program of comedy shorts by the great Buster Keaton accompanied by live, original music by Brendan Cooney. Cooney is music director of the Philadelphia-based “Not So Silent Cinema”, a group that has been performing new music to classic silent film for 15+ years with a rotating casts of musicians. This performance features the New River Ensemble, a genre-stretching chamber music ensemble. New York clarinetist Martha Hyde is a veteran of Broadway, Radio City Music Hall and the Gotham Wind Symphony. Cellist Lisa Liske-Doorandish is an in-demand performer and teacher based in the Triangle area. Philadelphia pianist and composer Brendan Cooney is Not-So-Silent-Cinema’s musical director. The trio regularly presents chamber music concerts, live film scores and educational workshops.
The Buster Keaton Films presented this evening will be:
“Cops”, “The Electric House”, “The Haunted House” and “One Week.”