Author: Ben Model

  • “Spice of the Program” downloadable MP3

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    Ben Model

    I’ve just discovered that Naxos’ music download site, ClassicsOnline.com, has my chamber piece available. There are a few other sites that have the CD available, including iTunes, but you have to buy the whole CD to get my piece. On the Naxos site you can buy just my track, for $2.39. Click here to go…

  • views of the Indian Lake Theatre, Indian Lake NY

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    Ben Model

    Here are some photos I took of the Indian Lake Theatre in Indian Lake, NY. They brought me up to present and accompany Harold Lloyd’s “Safety Last” on Sunday, November 21st. The theatre was built in 1938 and was a summer-season-only movie theater, and continued to be so for the next several decades. The theatre…

  • article in “Lake Champlain Weekly” re Safety Last show

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    Ben Model

    This very nice article appeared in the Nov 17-23, 2010 issue of the Lake Champlain weekly, a feature story promoting the “Safety Last” show I did for the Champlain Valley Film Society on Nov 20. In the CVFS’s 8-year history, the #2 and #3 ranking movies in terms of attendance were last year’s showing of…

  • orchestra and organ at the Egptian Theatre in Boise

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    Ben Model

    I know, I know…it’s two months later, but anyway here is my video blog entry for my trip to Boise, ID in September. Enjoy!

  • Nosferatu at MoMA, on Time Inc website

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    Ben Model

    Here’s a cool video profile on me, just posted on the Time Inc. website, and made by Jim Fields. This was shot in the early spring, but I will actually be playing for “Schreck” in December during MoMA’s “Weimar Kino” series. Enjoy! If you wanna see it on the Time Inc. site click here. http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1

  • Sept 1, in Tromsø Norway – school show

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    Ben Model

    Here is a new videoblog entry from my first day (back) in Tromsø, Norway. You’ll get to see what the Verdensteatret theatre looks like, and get a glimpse at one of the three shows we did for groups of 5th-graders.

  • plunging into fall 2010

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    Ben Model

    Back from vacash, and hit the ground running. Prepping for travel to Tromsø, played for Diary of a Lost Girl (first time I used theatre organ since June!) at the C.A.C., book flights to Boise and Massillon, and had to print out and ship out a concert band score for the Hong Kong Wind Ensemble,…

  • “The Spice of the Program” now available on CD!

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    Ben Model

    A piece of chamber music I composed is now available on CD. The Palisades Virtuosi — an ensemble comprised of Margaret Swinchoski, flute, Donald Mokrynski, clarinet, and Ron Levy, piano — commissioned me to compose a ten-minute work for them back in 2005. The piece, entitled “The Spice of the Program” (yes, like the logo/catch-phrase…

  • All finished with the “Auteurist” series at MoMA

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    Ben Model

    Well, stick a fork in me…I am done with the 26 performances at MoMA in June, as well as the Sept-May run of the silents in Charles Silver’s “Auteurist” series, and have come out the other end. It’s taken a day or two for the music to stop swirling around in my head. I initially…

  • video blog June 11, 2010 – playing for Fields, actualities, early pioneers

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    Ben Model

    Here’s the June 11th video blog in which I discuss playing for a Fields silent, as well as for two programs of early films at MoMA and how it went in comparison to the performances of the same show last fall. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yi-eYTJegM&hl=en_US&fs=1&color1=0x3a3a3a&color2=0x999999]