Sorry I haven’t posted in a while. Am on a busy schedule, averaging 4 or 5 shows a week, plus the usual ‘being-my-own-agent’ workload. Here’s what’s been goin’ on since 10/24… Sat Oct 28, NYC – Bruce Lawton and I did a program of “spooky silents” for the Turtle Bay…

While taking my daughter to school this morning, a boy who looked like he was around 11 (and who attends her school) came up to us. He asked me, “Are you the guy who showed a Buster Keaton movie at school last year?” I said I was (I had showed…

October 14 – RED BANK, NJ – well, my 4th silent film for the annual Red Bank International Film Festival was a presentation of Don Q, Son of Zorro with Douglas Fairbanks. 35mm print came from Douris, and I accompanied on an Allen electronic theatre organ. Print looked great, and…

Haven’t had a chance to post, because of all the work and gigs. Here’s a quick update. Am in the midst of composing/recording a score for Haldane of the Secret Service (1923), starring Harry Houdini (also prod/dir). It’s a straight detective melodrama, and not a pair of ‘cuffs in the…

Spent the week giving a talk to clowns, playing for MoMA’s Pola Negri series, and “christened” a new venue out in Sag Harbor (L.I.). 9/17 – BROOKLYN, NY – Did my talk on silent film comedian’s adapting their performance work to motion pictures at the NY Clown Theater Festival. Program…

Have only been back in town for a few days, and already a number of things are percolating: ReelclassicDVD’s release of Paths to Paradise with Raymond Griffith (and my piano score) is now available I’ve been hired to record a score for a new release from Kino. What is it?…

Photo at right was published in the Tromsø newspaper; we had a special screening of THE COOK for some kindergarten kids and press folk. So that’s I look like during a show…sheesh! Saturday’s two shows (for me) were a Fy & By comedy from Denmark, Vester Vov-vov(1927). F&B were the…

Today at 10am I played for THE COOK to a group of around 100 fifth graders…who screamed with laughter and just loved the whole experience. Tonight were screenings of Terge Vigen (star/dir Victor Sjostrom) in a new print with tints and original intertitles, and Haxan (a/k/a Witchcraft Through the Ages)…

This morning I played to a near-full house of teenagers — a Buster Keaton program., at 9am no less. The kids, who had never seen a silent film before, loved it. At noon, a handful of kindergarteners were brought in to see a short, with press in attendance to interview…

HAMILTON, NY – August 13 – Played for Harold Lloyd’s GIRL SHY on at the historic Hamilton Theater (near Colgate). Print was a beautiful 35mm from Sony, the edition restored by the UCLA Film & TV archive. Accompanied the film on the Mighty Miditzer virtual theatre organ. Sound was awesone.…