Tag: antonia lant

  • Mar 2: NYU Cinema Studies – Antonia Lant’s class

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    Ben Model

    Monday, March 2 – I played for a selection of animated shorts and films made by women at Antonia Lant’s film history class at NYU. Antonia came to a Silent Clowns show several years ago and introduced herself, and I’ve played once a year at her class ever since. Antonia’s book (co-editor) Red Velvet Seat:…

  • Safety Last in Hewlett-Woodmere (Long Island)

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    Ben Model

    Okay, this is a photo of the beautiful 200-seat auditorium at the Hewlett-Woodmere library before everybody showed up for today’s show of Safety Last. If I’d remembered to charge my camera battery there’d be a photo or two of me and Philip Harwood to post here as well. Piano was a beautiful Steinway B which,…

  • Chaplin’s “Adventurer” for concert band

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    Ben Model

    Well, March is here — and while my sched of performances is a tad lighter, I’m plenty busy with recording and re-arranging. A high school in Connecticut contacted me a couple months ago about doing a silent film program with one of my orchestral scores…but the school has a band and no orchestra (not too…