Tag: kurzweil

  • Conducting the Klopstokian Philharmonic

    Conducting the Klopstokian Philharmonic

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    Ben Model
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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…

  • Arbuckle, L&H and Stooges…at MoMA

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    Ben Model

    Presented a program of comedy shorts at MoMA Sat Feb 3 that featured slapstick teams. We showed Fatty and Mabel Adrift, Big Business and Idle Roomers (Three Stooges, dir. Del Lord). This was #2 of the 3 “Watch This! Films for Tweens” programs I programmed and introduced, working with MoMA’s Liz Margulies of their Ford…