Film Screening of "The Ancient Law" with Live Musical Performance

PROGRAM DETAILS
Join us for a special screening of The Ancient Law (Das alte Gesetz, 1923) with live original music composed and performed by world-renowned klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals and celebrated silent film pianist Donald Sosin.

- Special 100th Anniversary Screening (1923-2023)
- 6:45pm - Doors open, check-in table
- 7:30pm - Film and Live Performance begins promptly

THE MUSICIANS
Violinist/composer Alicia Svigals is the world's leading klezmer fiddler and a founder of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics. She has worked with violinist Itzhak Perlman, the Kronos Quartet, playwrights Tony Kushner and Eve Ensler, poet Allen Ginsburg, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, Debbie Friedman and Chava Albershteyn. Svigals was awarded a Foundation for Jewish Culture commission for her original score to the 1918 film The Yellow Ticket, and is a MacDowell fellow. With jazz pianist Uli Geissendoerfer, she recently released Beregovski Suite, a recording of contemporary interpretations of klezmer music from a long-lost Soviet Jewish archive.

Pianist/composer Donald Sosin grew up in Rye, NY and Munich, Germany. Since 1971 has performed his silent film music at Lincoln Center, MoMA, BAM, the National Gallery, Yale, Harvard, and major film festivals here and abroad. He records for various DVD labels: Criterion, Kino, Milestone, Flicker Alley and his scores are heard frequently on TCM. He has taught music at MUM and performed with community members for silent films at the Sondheim Center and other Fairfield venues. He and his family live in northwest Connecticut. Donald is currently touring with Alicia Svigals, performing her score for The Yellow Ticket and their collaborative score for The Ancient Law, The City Without Jews, and The Man Without a World.

Price: Free: USD 0.00

Category: Live Music | Classical