A unique opportunity is coming to Denman Island when the wind ensemble Fanfarra Cinemática presents an evening of live music and silent film. Buster Keaton’s masterpiece of silent movies, ‘The General,’ will be paired with veteran composer Gregg Moore’s innovative, entertaining, and eclectic score.
Moore, an accomplished wind, horn, and string musician, passed the greater part of his career in Europe where this score was originally commissioned by the Cine Clube de Covilha in Portugal. Together with production manager Ruthie Tilston, Moore has assembled a six-person multi-generational ensemble of talented musicians including a trumpeter, a clarinetist, a percussionist, and two saxophonists. This sextet guarantees to entertain with a thrilling combination of cartoon music, circus mayhem and 19th century parlor music.
This diverse music provides the perfect backdrop to Keaton’s silent movie, ‘The General’, widely considered to be the pinnacle of the early years of cinema. Keaton upended convention by setting a comedy in the American Civil War and portraying the Southern cause as the ‘good guys’ in a love story of a plucky railway engineer saving his beloved train as well as his heroine. Throughout the movie, Keaton displays his signature physical theater and storytelling genius.
Best thought of as a concert of music with visual accompaniment, the sum provides a rollicking good time for all ages!
When: Saturday, August 17th
Showtime: 7:30pm
Where: Denman United Church
Tickets: $15. Available at the door (cash or e-transfer).
*Children under 12 free.
Please email Ruthie Tilston at ruthietilston@yahoo.ca for reservations and any further information.
