On this episode Ben talks about meeting an audience’s expectations of a score when a certain piece of music or…
On this episode Ben talks about: the annual Mostly Lost film identification workshop at the Library of Congress, currently postponed…
On this episode Ben talks about: using music an audience may or may not expect to hear during a film…
This summer, I read two books, inspired by my being booked for a film series that will run at MoMA…
The Mack Sennett films released through Paramount in the late ‘teens give you the impression that an effort was underway…
When I meet people from other parts of the country and tell them I’m a silent film accompanist , they…
I don’t remember how or when I started doing this, but I’m certain it’s something I picked up or learned…
I first heard about this CD project during the Arbuckle retrospective I co-curated for MoMA in 2006 with Ron Magliozzi,…
Two main elements in film programming, I’ve found, are knowing the films and knowing where prints of them are. The…
There is no deeply dramatic reason for Douglas Fairbanks to leap over the benches and fences or climb the trees…