[ecrea] The Sounds of Early Cinema in Britain: Conference in April

> The Sounds of Early Cinema in Britain: Performance, Realisation and Reception
>
> Thursday 7thâ??Friday 8th April, 2011, at the 
> Institute of Musical Research (IMR) and the Barbican Centre, London
>
> Speakers include: Professor Rick Altman 
> (University of Iowa), Gillian Anderson (Silent 
> Film Historian and Conductor), Professor James 
> Buhler (University of Texas, Austin)
>
> This AHRC-funded Beyond Text Research Network 
> conference shares its second day (8th April) 
> with the 14th British Silent Film Festival (7thâ??10th April, 2011).
>
> Film score reconstruction: Barbican Cinema, 8 April, 7.30pm
> Philip Ellis (Royal Birmingham Ballet) will 
> conduct a reconstruction by Julie Brown (RHUL) 
> of a score by British composer Frederick 
> Laurence for Morozko (Father Frost) (dir. Yuri 
> Zhelyabuzhsky, 1924), a rarely seen and 
> delightful soviet film based on the well-known 
> Russian fairy tale about a stepdaughter who is 
> driven out to face the spirit of winter. 
> Laurenceâ??s charming specially-composed score 
> reflects aspects of 1920s musical modernism and 
> has not been heard since it accompanied the filmâ??s London run in 1925.
>
> SCHEDULE and BOOKING FORMS now available on:
>
> http://projects.beyondtext.ac.uk/soundsearlycinema/index.php
>
>
> Julie Brown (Royal Holloway, University of London)
>
> Annette Davison (University of Edinburgh)

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