Getting to accompany silent films for MoMA’s Modern Matinees series Iris Barry’s History of Film gives me two ways to…
When I was in college, I played for a silent film course taught by MoMA’s Charles Silver. Charles loaned me…
This summer, I read two books, inspired by my being booked for a film series that will run at MoMA…
I’ve recorded a lot of scores for DVD releases, and it’s always interesting to me which ones stick in my…
There’s a moment in Vidor’s The Crowd that I handle in a similar way to a moment toward the end…
When I started accompanying films it was still common practice to show silent films, well…silent. They were only available in…
Every once in a while, after one of my shows, someone will come up to me and ask me if…
I know that song from Bugs Bunny cartoons. There’s no other way I’d had have heard of it, except that…
A lot of people ask me at shows if the original music played for silent movies still exists. During an…
It took me at least a few years to find a way to re-tune my thoughts about what you might…