Keaton and Pickford: Live Music Accompaniment

Monday, September 14 , 6:30 PM, West Newton Cinema

Join us for screenings of Buster Keaton’s, ONE WEEK (1920), and Mary Pickford’s, STELLA MARIS (1918) with live musical accompaniment.

ABOUT THE FILMS:
ONE WEEK, Buster Keaton-
A newly wedded couple attempts to build a house with a prefabricated kit, unaware that a rival sabotaged the kit’s component numbering.

STELLA MARIS, Mary Pickford-
Two young women – a paraplegic girl sheltered by her wealthy guardians and a more experienced orphan – fall in love with a man separated from his violent wife.

LIVE MUSIC
BRUCE VOGT
Bruce Vogt is a Canadian pianist who has devoted a distinguished career to performing and teaching. He has toured cities and towns of all sizes throughout North America, Europe, and Asia as a soloist and chamber musician. He has mentored generations of young artists in his role as professor of piano at the University of Victoria, and has lectured widely, leading master classes, workshops, and adjudicating for festivals.

Bruce has sustained an interest in exploring the many conversations to be found between music and film, literature and painting. This has evolved into an unusual side hustle: improvising accompaniments for the great films of the silent era. He has developed a robust career in this multimedia sphere bringing sound to many masterpieces — by Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, Griffith, Sjöström, Von Sternberg and many others. In movie theaters across Europe, Asia, and North America, he has provided for audiences a greater intimacy with these films, transforming the silence of the medium into another sphere.

Tickets: https://www.westnewtoncinema.com/movie/keaton-and-pickford-live-music-accompaniment