Category: Podcast

In this episode: Ben plays with holding back musically to help an audience of art deco fans connect with Valentino and Nazimova during a show of “Camille” (1921); he and Kerr Lockhart dig in to details about “Oriental Blues”, the theme song Ernie Kovacs used for all of his shows from 1951-1962; and Ben discusses…

Episode 49 Show Notes: Rudolph Valentino, Ernie Kovacs, Buster Keaton, and the Craft of Supporting Subtleties Summer exhibitions of silent films with Ben accompanying are picking up Camille starring Alla Nazimova and Rudolph Valentino at AFI Silver co-sponsored by the Art Deco Society of Washington DC (Music excerpt on an Allen organ) Ernie Kovacs segment: Ernie…

In this bonus episode, podcast co-host Kerr Lockhart talks with Rick Benjamin, musical director of The Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, about mood cues and photoplay music from the silent era.

Episode 47 Show Notes: accompanying The Patsy, The Cameraman and Gilbert Gottfried Live performances are slowly returning The Patsy with Marion Davies “The Patsy”, which was originally a stage play, recently returned to New York as a one-man show. How Ben’s improvisation spontaneously fit with the physical action to come. Excerpt from a performance at…

The Kansas Silent Film Festival 2022 and other Adventures in Returning to In-Person Performance The Kansas Silent Film Festival 25th Anniversary The Silent Comedy Watch Party at Ben Model’s YouTube Channel Augmenting one’s accustomed patterns of accompaniment The joy of editing recorded scores End of scene: resolve or bridge? Ben accompanies William S Hart in The…

Video releases, Kickstarters, Marion Davies, and MOMA Ben’s live appearances seem to be increasing in Winter 2022 Festivals are announcing schedules, such as TCM Classic Film Festival in April, Capitolfest in Rome, NY  Edward Everett Horton’s silent shorts are breaking out Effective as a silent film performance Harold Lloyd’s company provided first-class production (Made between The…