Tag: Charlie Chaplin

  • October 2008 shows posted

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    Ben Model

    Had a great Charley Chase show at the Silent Clowns this afternoon. I have digested and recovered (mentally) from my 3-day trip to L.A. for the Ernie Kovacs project, and don’t have to get on a plane or pack for quite some time. Have just finally had a moment to post my October 2008 performance…

  • “Adventurer” in Hot Springs, SD

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    Ben Model

    My concert band score for Charlie Chaplin’s “The Adventurer” will be performed this week by the Hot Springs High School Band and Community band in the town’s original 1920’s movie theater. The school’s conductor, Truman Savery, found me online just as I was finishing up the concert band (re-)arrangement of my orch score for the…

  • (Safety Last + shorts show) x 2; AllDay recording

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    Ben Model

    July 15 – yesterday I accompanied Safety Last (plus the Lloyd 1-reeler Luke’s Shattered Sleep) and a shorts program at MoMA on piano. I’ll repeat the shows tomorrow on theatre organ. Safety Last knocked the audience out, as usual, and I was pleased to see a number of kids and younger people in the audience.…

  • ad for St Pauls show

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    Ben Model

    Just picked up a copy of “The West Sider”, a free weekly paper that I’d heard that Father Gil had placed an ad in for the St. Paul the Apostle silent film programs. I was looking for somethinga few inches square, but was surprised to find a half-page full height ad in the paper’s what-to-do-this-weekend…

  • 5 shows performed, 2 bass strings replaced, 1 recording for Kino

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    Ben Model

    July 12 – Weds and Thurs I played to Keaton’s The General, Lloyd’s The Freshman, and Keaton’s Sherlock, Jr. in the Titus 1 theater at MoMA. The Miditzer theatre organ sounded great in there (T1 is the bigger of the three theaters at MoMA). Shows were well-attended, and I saw some familiar faces who brought…

  • They Said it Couldn’t Be Done: silent film & High School band

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    Ben Model

    Last night I attended the premiere of my concert band arrangement of my Adventurer score. The score was a big hit, and the evening itself was quite wonderful. My wife and daughter came out to Milford CT early and we were hosted for dinner by Dr. Ralph Barbiero and his lovely wife Marsha before going…

  • Jonathan Law High School visit & flyer

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    Ben Model

    Visited Jonathan Law High School yesterday, attending a morning rehearsal of the school’s chamber ensemble – 20-25 piece concert band – as well as the two AP History classes who are studying the silent film era and making presentations at the concert on June 13. Was impressed with the shape the band was in with…

  • sharing the bill with Bernstein, Barber and Williams

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    Ben Model

    Here’s a review of a concert by the Green Bay Civic Symphony from yesterday. The orchestra’s final concert of the season was comprised of movie music by Leonard Bernstein, Samuel Barber, and John Williams. Oh yeah, and me. They performed my orchestral score to Charlie Chaplin’s The Adventurer (score was originally commissioned in 2000 by…

  • April update part 1

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    Ben Model

    Well…a month has flown by since my last posting, and much has happened. no way to catch up but to do it in pieces. Here’s an initial stab at catching up… Last week I spent three days recording scores for ten comedy shorts for the upcoming American Slapstick 2 DVD set from AllDay Entertainment. Five…

  • 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…