Author: Ben Model

  • Another happy altscore.com customer

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    Ben Model

    Over the weekend, someone bought and downloaded my piano score MP3 that synchs with the Kino DVD/VHS of Sherlock Jr. with Buster Keaton. I opened my virtual mailbag this morning to find this kind note: I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate your making the “Sherlock Jr.” piano score available. I watched…

  • article about “Metropolis” in Queens Gazette

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    Ben Model

    There’s an article in the Oct 14 issue of the Queens Gazette about last week’s show of Metropolis that I spotted online. Click here to read the article. The writer did a nice job, and quoted me on a couple of things and mentioned the Silent Clowns series as well.

  • Oct 10 – “Cat and the Canary” in Brooklyn

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    Ben Model

    Sat, Oct 10 — the first silent film program in this bi-monthly series sponsored by the Brooklyn chapter of the AGO was sparsely attended, unfortunately. The people who came, however, got to hear that magnificent instrument in action. The acoustics in the church are great, and I had fun using the Echo ranks — which…

  • Oct 8 – “Metropolis” at QTIP

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    Ben Model

    October 8, 7:30pm — after playing for the Melies/Zecca matinee program (second time, on Thurs), I headed out to QTIP, or Queens Theatre in the Park for this screening of Metropolis that was part of a weekly series that AMMI was doing in a partnership with the theater. The theater is located inside Flushing Meadows…

  • Oct 7 & 8: trick films @ MoMA

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    Ben Model

    George Melies and his RivalsLe Voyage dans la lune (A Voyage to the Moon) 1902. France. Directed by Georges Méliès. 13 min.Barbe-Bleue 1901. France. Directed by Georges Méliès. 10 min.Les Sept Chateaux du diable (Seven Castles of the Devil) 1902. France. Directed by Ferdinand Zecca. 12 min.Le Voyage à travers l’impossible (Impossible Voyage) 1904. France.…

  • Oct 4 – Dough & Dynamite for American Girl

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    Oct 4 at 9:30 am (!) found me at MoMA bright and early for a private screening for a handful of young girls, their American Girl dolls, and the girls’ moms, a Grandma and a Dad. This was another one of the promotional events linked to American Girl’s new Rebecca Rubin doll, whose historical year…

  • Oct 3 – shorts & Zorro in Sag Harbor

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    Ben Model

    My third time performing at the Bay Street Theater found me with the Miditzer in tow. This was a request from Bay Street, and they covered a rental car for me to bring the instrument out (I don’t own a car, and the Hampton Jitney wouldn’t exactly work). The other thing new was that in…

  • Oct 1 “Lesser-Known Pioneers of Cinema” (MoMA)

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    Ben Model

    La Vie et la passion de Jésus Christ. 1902. France. Directed by Ferdinand Zecca, Lucien Nonguet. 30 min. La Vie du Christ. 1906. France. Directed by Alice Guy Blaché. 28 min.The Automobile Thieves (incomplete). 1906. USA. Directed by J. Stuart Blackton. 10 min. Francesca di Rimini. 1908. USA. Directed by J. Stuart Blackton. 10 min.At…

  • October begins: 22 performances in and around NY

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    Ben Model

    October finds me working full-time as a silent film accompanist. 22 performances in and around NY, plus a DVD box set release. When not performing, the rest of my working hours involve preparing for shows, agent work for shows coming up and for shows percolating for 2010, being my own press agent and doing press…

  • article on Zorro, shorts, at Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor

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    Ben Model

    Elise D’Haene did a real nice write-up in this week’s East Hampton Star on the shows I have coming up this Saturday, at the Bay Street Theatre in Sag Harbor. Click here to read the article.