Episode 46 show notes: The Silent Film Music Podcast

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 Toll Gate at St Francis College in Brooklyn
• Ben at Grace Episcopal Church in Topeka, Kansas, accompanying “Scrambled Weddings” with Edward Everett Horton on the Shantz 4-manual, 65-rank pipe organ for the Kansas Silent Film Festival
• Adjustments to playing on a pipe organ, especially among different instruments
• Difference between organ and piano accompaniment
• Fats Waller “Messin’ About With The Blues” (1927) on the Estey Pipe Organ at the Trinity Baptist Church in Camden, NJ
• Accompanying comedy in a triple meter, instead of the usual duple (boom-chick boom-chick)
• How to introduce and discuss Marcel Perez to film fans
• Robinet’s White Suit as seen on The Silent Comedy Watch Party
• The Marcel Perez Collection and The Marcel Perez Collection Volume 2
• Ben accompanies The Goose Woman starring Louise Dresser, Jack Pickford and Constance Bennett, directed by Clarence Brown performing at Washburn Hall of Washburn University for the Kansas Silent Film Festival
• Accompanying a film with rapidly shifting emotions
• Developing an audience that trusts the curators to present films worth seeing; doing “missionary work” for silent film
• Ben does Buster Keaton shows introduced by Dana Stevens, author of Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, NY – and…
• …by James Curtis, author of Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker’s Life at Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington, NY
• Ben talks about his Kickstarter to produced and release Raymond Griffith in Paths To Paradise and You’d Be Surprised in Blu-ray and DVD in a 2K scan from the Library of Congress.