“The Chicago Symphony Orchestra just announced more films with live music for their upcoming season, with an emphasis on classic silent films: Ben-Hur (1925), Metropolis (1927) and The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920),” writes Louise Burton in Saturday’s (4/5) Classicalite.com. “These films may be classics, but some of the music is new. During the screening of Ben-Hur on October 14, the CSO will play a new orchestral score composed by Stewart Copeland of The Police.… Copeland will sit in with the orchestra on drum kit…. Organist Cameron Carpenter wrote his own macabre score for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, and he will perform it live on Orchestra Hall’s organ during a special screening of the silent horror film on Halloween.… Fritz Lang’s science-fiction classic Metropolis will complete the orchestra’s ‘CSO at the Movies’ series…. The film’s eclectic musical score includes selections by Arnold Schoenberg, Edvard Grieg, Béla Bartók and other composers of the silent film era. This three-concert series also includes ‘Pixar in Concert’ … and Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey…. The CSO will also perform the musical score to Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather … probably the most familiar film to modern audiences of the movies the CSO recently added to its upcoming season.”
Posted April 7, 2014
