May 3, 2009 – played for Poil de carotte (“Carrot Top”), the 1925 silent directed by Julien Duvivier. I recorded my blog entry as a blogcast/podcast on my digital recorder while walking home from MoMA after the show (so that’s why I sound a little out of breath), rather than come home and do a lot of typing.
Below are my blog podcast and the first 6 or 7 mins of my performance. Not exactly going to give Paderewski a run for his money (note clam hit in first bar or so), but here it is “hot off the presses” nonetheless. Tomorrow’s repeat will go better.
Blogcast:
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Score recording (pauses heard are for live, spoken translation of intertitles, which didn’t get picked up by my mike)
(© 2009 by Ben Model all rights reserved)
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The DVD, released by Lobster in Europe (and rentable from Facets here), includes a spoken intro by Serge Bromberg (don’t break your mouse clicking on the image below…it’s just a screen-grab):