An Evening of Silent Film with the Tanglewood Music Center
Tanglewood, one of the country’s most acclaimed music festivals and summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and acclaimed summer music academy Tanglewood Music Center (TMC), will be taking the show on the road this summer with a performance of their Silent Film Project taking place at Brookline’s iconic Coolidge Corner Theatre.
Presented by the Tanglewood Learning Institute in collaboration with the Coolidge Corner Theatre, “An Evening of Silent Film with Tanglewood Music Center” features TMC composers, conductors, and instrumentalists performing live scores to accompany short silent films by visionary filmmakers Maya Deren, Buster Keaton, and Larry Jordan, as well as a filmed performance of Lady of the Camellias (created by Antony Tudor for New York City Ballet in 1951; the two leads—Diana Adams and Hugh Laing—were engaged by Jacob's Pillow to present the final pas de deux there the following season).
Titles and Details:
Ritual in Transfigured Time / Dir: Maya Deren / 1946 / 14 1⁄2 minutes
Hamfat Asfar / Dir: Lawrence Jordan / 1965 / 13 minutes / Animated
The Balloonatic / Dir: Buster Keaton / 1923 / 22 minutes
Lady of the Camellias / created by Antony Tudor for New York City Ballet / 1951 / 6 minutes
About TANGLEWOOD:
Tanglewood, one of the country’s premier summer music festivals and summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 1937, is located in the Berkshire Hills of Lenox and Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Tanglewood is also the home of the Tanglewood Music Center, the acclaimed summer music academy founded by Serge Koussevitzky in 1940. Launched in 2019 with the opening of the Linde Center for Music and Learning, the Tanglewood Learning Institute in collaboration with the newly announced Humanities Institute offer dynamic and leading-edge performances and events connecting audiences with musicians, artists, students, scholars, and cultural leaders through wide-ranging humanities-focused programs.
