On Wednesday, Nov 20 at 7pm, there will be a presentation at MoMA about Arthur Kleiner, silent film accompanist. It’s…
I make mistakes during shows, and usually I’m the only one who notices. As an artist, often that’s all I…
There’s another by-product of my doing a live score for the 1931 Dracula, one that I think is a little…
It may be sacrilege to add music to the 1931 Dracula, and it might also be a great idea. It…
I found myself in a near-trance state, accompanying the 1912 Les amours de la reine Élisabeth (Queen Elizabeth) yesterday at…
I don’t know what possessed me to do this, but I’ve started a vlog. I may not have the patience…
In revisiting one of Chaplin’s best comedy shorts, one of my and many others’ favorites, I noticed something slightly unusual…
“It was Blanchette Rockefeller’s piano,” I was told when I was introduced to the instrument in 2003. This was at…
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…