Tag: fritz lang

  • Conducting the Klopstokian Philharmonic

    Conducting the Klopstokian Philharmonic

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    I found myself playing piano for films and I’d hear other instruments in my head during the show. This was the very late 1990s. Had to be, because I started learning the organ a year or so before Lee Erwin passed in 2000, and remember going to his place to practice and get advice a…

  • prepping for Die Nibelungen parts 1 & 2

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    Ben Model

    Well, I’ve now screened both part 1 and 2 of Lang’s Die Nibelungen on DVD in prep for my playing for these two at the Burns Film Center on Weds and Thurs. Got these out of the NYPL; I don’t own DVD’s of silents, just reserve ’em and check ’em out of the library when…