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2024
| August 24 2:00 PM |
[New Music for Silent Film] ELLA CINDERS (starring Colleen Moore, 1926) I accompany this silent-era Cinderella story, featuring one of the silent era's major flapper stars, with an original score on the Walker theater organ. Library of Congress Packard Campus Theatre |
Culpeper, VA |
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| May 18, 2024 2:00 PM | The Autry Museum of the American West Texas Guinan double feature: THE GUN WOMAN (1921) and THE STAMPEDE (1918). I will accompany these rarely-seen Westerns as part of The Silent Treatment Film Series, on loan from The Library of Congress. |
Los Angeles, CA |
| May 11, 2024 5:00 PM | Christ Episcopal Church Cantate Chamber Singers: Earth and Sky As Keyboard Artist, I join CCS in this program of music by Alice Parker, Gwyneth Walker, Samuel Barber, and others. |
Kensington, MD |
| May 4, 2024 1:00 PM | Greenbelt Cinema THE LOST WORLD (Harry O. Hoyt, 1925) My final offering of this season of silents supported by a Maryland State Arts Council Creativity grant. In this sci-fi classic, Professor Challenger discovers real dinosaurs living in the Amazon and brings a specimen back to London, with interesting results. Featuring magnificent stop-motion animated dinosaurs by Willis O'Brien, who would go on to animate the Beast in 1933's KING KONG. This film is also connected with a stop-motion animation workshop for kids ages 8-12! |
Greenbelt, MD |
| May 4, 2024 11 AM-3 PM | Greenbelt Cinema (2:30 final screening of animations) Designed for kids 8-12, stop-motion animator Ali Everitt will lead this workshop before THE LOST WORLD, from 11am-1pm. (Registration includes admission to the movie!). After the movie (1-2:30pm), the workshop participants will get to see their animations in real time! Register here: greenbeltcinema.org/movie/lost-world-workshop |
Greenbelt, MD |
| April 28, 2024 3:00 PM | Scottish Rite Cathedral THE FRESHMAN (starring Harold Lloyd, 1925) I return to the beautiful Scottish Rite in Indy to accompany one of Lloyd's classic comedies on the organ. Suzanne Lloyd, Harold's granddaughter, will also be on hand to provide commentary. |
Indianapolis, IN |
| April 27, 2024 7:15 PM | The Kentucky Theatre THE FRESHMAN (starring Harold Lloyd, 1925) I will accompany this collegiate comedy classic on the KY Theatre's Allen organ. |
Lexington, KY |
| April 14, 2024 4:00 PM | Atlas Performing Arts Center BARE KNEES (1928) This 1928 flapper film, starring Virginia Lee Corbin, is a gem of the Jazz Age. The final offering of this season of the Silent Film Series |
Washington, DC |
| March 27, 2024 7:30 PM | Clemson University Symphony Orchestra ONE WEEK (Buster Keaton, 1920) Clemson University Symphony Orchestra Kimberly Souther, conductor Walhalla High School |
Walhalla, SC |
| March 22, 2024 7:30 PM | Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theater KING OF KINGS (Cecil B. DeMille, 1927) Admission free |
Culpeper, VA |
| March 16, 2024 5:00 PM | Montgomery College Cultural Arts Center 7995 Georgia Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910 Cantate Chamber Singers presents "Brazil & Argentina" As part of this program of very appealing South American repertoire, I will be on the piano as part of an ensemble with strings and bandoneon. |
Spring, MD |
| March 8, 2024 7:00 PM | Atlas Performing Arts Center Part of Atlas INTERSECTIONS Festival 2024 Buster Keaton: OUR HOSPITALITY. The Andrew Simpson Ensemble performs my new bluegrass-inspired score for this Keaton comedy classic. Preceded by my new short piece, "Just Outside Bluegrass." |
Washington, DC |
| Feb. 24, 2024 1:00 PM | Greenbelt Cinema SAFETY LAST! (1923, starring Harold Lloyd) This romantic comedy features the famous image of Lloyd hanging from a clock high in the air. One of the all-time classics of silent cinema. |
Greenbelt, MD |
| Feb. 18, 2024 2:00 PM | National Gallery of Art East Building Auditorium THE HANDS OF ORLAC (Robert Wiene, 1924) I accompany this intense psychological drama about a pianist. |
Washington, DC |
| Jan. 6, 2024 1:00 PM | Greenbelt Cinema Chaplin, THE KID (1921) Laurel and Hardy, BIG BUSINESS (1929) This is the second screening in Greenbelt Cinema's silent film series this year. |
Greenbelt, MD |
| POSTPONED New date TBA | Educational Workshop "Let's Make a Movie - Soundtrack!" I will be leading a workshop in creating a new score for a short abstract animation using found objects and instruments. Open to kids ages 9-12. Old Greenbelt Theatre |
Greenbelt, MD |
2023
| Dec. 14, 2023 7:30 PM | Smithsonian National Museum of American History Premiere of ensemble score for OUR HOSPITALITY (Buster Keaton, 1923). The Smiithsonian's Warner Bros. Theater is reopening, and I am immensely proud to be leading the Andrew Simpson Ensemble in the premiere of my new score for this film. |
Washington, DC |
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| Nov. 18, 2023 5:00 PM | Bethesda Presbyterian Church Cantate Chamber Singers presents "Americana & America," featuring selections from Copland's Old American Songs, Randall Thompson's Frostiana, and works by Margaret Bonds, Carlos Simson, and Joel Thompson, and others. I'll be at the piano accompanying the chorus and baritone Daniel J. Smith. |
Bethesda, MD |
| Nov. 12, 2023 4:30 PM | Atlas Performing Arts Center Performance of ONE WEEK (Buster Keaton, 1920), by the Capital City Symphony, Victoria Gau, Music Director |
Washington, DC |
| Nov. 12, 2023 2:00 PM | Atlas Performing Arts Center Performance of ONE WEEK (Buster Keaton, 1920), by the Capital City Symphony, Victoria Gau, Music Director |
Washington, DC |
| Nov. 12, 2023 1:00 PM | Greenbelt Cinema THE FLYING ACE (Richard Norman, 1926) This aerial adventure film with an all-Black cast is a treasure of the silent film era. I'm thrilled to be presenting the first of a series of four silent films at the newly-renamed Greenbelt Cinema (formerly Old Greenbelt Theatre). |
Greenbelt, MD |
| Nov. 11, 2023 8:45 PM | AFI Silver Theatre WINGS (dir. William Wellman, 1927) |
Silver Spring, MD |
| Nov. 11, 2023 5:00 PM | Atlas Performing Arts Center Performance of ONE WEEK (Buster Keaton, 1920), by the Capital City Symphony, Victoria Gau, Music Director I will be in attendance to talk about my process in creating this score for this timeless Keaton gem. |
Washington, DC |
| Nov. 11, 2023 1:00 PM | AFI Silver Theatre THE BIG PARADE (dir. King VIdor, 1925) |
Silver Spring, MD |
| Nov. 10, 2023 8:45 PM | AFI Silver Theatre OUR HOSPITALITY (1923, starring Buster Keaton) |
Silver Spring, MD |
| Nov. 9, 2023 8:45 PM | AFI Silver Theatre SO THIS IS PARIS (dir. Ernst Lubitsch, 1926) |
Silver Spring, MD |
| Nov. 10, 2023 7:00 PM | AFI Silver Theatre Laurel and Hardy shorts, program 4 (piano and organ) PUTTING PANTS ON PHILIP, FLYING ELEPHANTS, THE BATTLE OF THE CENTURY |
Silver Spring, MD |
| Nov. 9, 2023 7:00 PM | AFI Silver Theatre Laurel and Hardy shorts, program 3 (piano and organ) SUGAR DADDIES, THE SECOND 100 YEARS, CALL OF THE CUCKOO, DO DETECTIVES THINK? |
Silver Spring, MD |
| Nov. 7, 2023 7:00 PM | AFI Silver Theatre Laurel and Hardy shorts, program 2 (piano and organ) LOVE 'EM AND WEEP, WHY GIRLS LOVE SAILORS, WITH LOVE AND HISSES, SAILORS BEWARE |
Silver Spring, MD |
| Nov. 3, 2023 8:45 PM | AFI Silver Theatre WITHIN THE LAW (1923, starring Norma Talmadge) |
Silver Spring, MD |
| Nov. 3, 2023 7:00 PM | AFI Silver Theatre Laurel and Hardy shorts, program 1 (piano and organ) THE LUCKY DOG, 45 MINUTES FROM HOLLYWOOD, DUCK SOUP, SLIPPING WIVES |
Silver Spring, MD |
| Oct. 27, 2023 7:00 PM | Scottish Rite Cathedral METROPOLIS (Fritz Lang, 1927) I will be accompanying this classic for the first time on the magnificent organ in this gorgeous building in downtown Indy. |
Indianapolis, IN |
| Oct. 22, 2023 4:00 PM | Atlas Performing Arts Center "The Sounds of Silence" Film Series 6th season opening film ACROSS TO SINGAPORE (1928), starring Ramon Navarro, Joan Crawford, Anna May Wong, Ernest Torrence. A simmering love triangle in a family of seafarers. |
Washington, DC |
| Sept. 29, 2023 7:30 PM | Library of Congress Packard Campus THE LADY (Frank Borzage, 1925) I will be on the theater organ to accompany this newly-restored feature by Borzage. Part of Silent Movie Day. Speaking of Borzage, see my newest DVD/Blu-ray release FRANK BORZAGE: 1922 SILENTS (BACK PAY and THE VALLEY OF SILENT MEN) |
Culpeper, VA |
| Sept. 23, 2023 7:00 PM | Old Greenbelt Theatre OGT celebrates its 85th anniversary with a screening of Hollywood home movies with live narration. I'll be playing accompaniment to support the images and the story. |
Greenbelt, MD |
| Sept. 16, 2023 7:00 PM | Utah Silent Film Celebration Screening of Laurel and Hardy's LIBERTY (1929, dir. Leo McCarey) with my original score performed by the Bountiful Philharmonia, conducted by Darrin Thiriot. Part of the 5th annual Utah Silent Film Celebration. |
Centerville, UT |
| Sept. 15, 2023 7:00 PM | Utah Silent Film Celebration Screening of Buster Keaton's SHERLOCK JR. (1924) with my new original score performed by the Bountiful Philharmonia, conducted by Darrin Thiriot. Part of the 5th annual Utah Silent Film Celebration. |
Centerville, UT |
| Sept. 10, 2023 1:00 PM | Canmore Opera House A screening of Frank Borzage's THE VALLEY OF SILENT MEN (1922), featuring my recorded theater organ score for the DVD/Blu-ray which I co-produced for Undercrank Productions. Presented by the Canmore Museum. |
Canmore, Alberta, Canada |
| July 19, 2023 8:00 PM | CAPITAL FRINGE FESTIVAL UKRAINIAN PLAY READINGS PROJECT Rind Theatre Space English-language readings of 6 new Ukrainian plays commissioned since the Russian invasion. I will be at the piano accompanying the readings for this special Fringe performance. Tickets are free: reservere through the link above. |
Washington, DC |
| June 18, 2023 9:00 AM | New Music for Silent Film JOHANNA ENLISTS (starring Mary Pickford, 1918) I accompany this wartime picture on the Allen theater organ as part of the Library of Congress' Festival of Film and Sound. AFI Silver Theatre |
Silver Spring, MD |
| May 6, 2023 5:30 PM | Avalon Theatre PREMIERE of a new ensemble score for SHERLOCK, JR. (Buster Keaton, 1924) I'm conducting the Andrew Simpson Ensemble in this premiere. 100th anniversary gala for the Avalon |
Washington, DC |
| April 29, 2023 2:00 PM | New Music for Silent Film “Melies: Fairy Tales” (Star Film Co., early 1900s) A program of early silents by the magical French director Georges Méliès Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theatre |
Culpeper, VA |
| April 23, 2023 4:00 PM | Atlas Performing Arts Center OUR DANCING DAUGHTERS (1928, starring Joan Crawford) |
Washington, DC |
| March 25, 2023 7:30 PM | Symphony d'Oro Performance of my orchestral score for Buster Keaton's ONE WEEK |
Rancho Cordova, CA |
| March 15, 2023 7:00 PM | AFI Silver Theatre Clara Bow double feature: MANTRAP (1926) and IT (1927) |
Silver Spring, MD |
| March 12, 2023 4:30 PM | Atlas Performing Arts Center Sprenger Theater FLYING CAR: How Great was the Future? A new multimedia theater piece with film, dance, and live music I created this show in collaboration with choreographer Lucy Bowen McCauley. Members of the Andrew Simpson Ensemble, "Sparklers" videos with live music, and dancers. |
Washington, DC |
| March 5, 2023 2:00 PM | Smithsonian Museum of Asian Art PICCADILLY (1929, starring Anna May Wong) Admission free, but advance registration encouraged |
Washington, DC |
| February 18, 2023 2:00 PM | Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theatre LOVE (1927, starring Greta Garbo and John Gilbert) LOVE 'EM AND WEEP (1927, starring Laurel and Hardy) Admission free |
Culpeper, VA |
| January 29, 2023 7:00 PM | Maryland Hall CHICAGO (1927) The same story as the Kander and Ebb musical, 50 years before! Based on the 1926 play, CHICAGO stars Phyllis Haver as Roxie Hart. I'll be on piano and trumpet for this performance at Maryland Hall. |
Annapolis, MD |
| January 29, 2023 3:00 PM | National Gallery of Art East Building Auditorium "The Magical Camera: Early Silent Films from the Library of Congress with New Scores by Catholic University Composers." Balance Campaign will premiere 10 new silent film scores by Catholic University composers. I will conduct the ensemble live to screen. Free admission |
Washington, DC |
| January 21, 2023 7:30 PM | Ward Recital Hall, B. T. Rome School of Music, Drama, and Art, The Catholic University of America "The Magical Camera: Early Silent Films from the Library of Congress with New Scores by Catholic University Composers." Balance Campaign will premiere 10 new silent film scores by Catholic University composers. I will conduct the ensemble live to screen. Free admission |
Washington, DC |
2022
| December 4, 20224:00 PM | Lang Theater, Atlas Performing Arts Center Atlas Sounds of Silence Film Series [New Music for Silent Film] THE PATSY (starring Marion Davies, dir. King Vidor 1928). The wonderfully zany comedienne Marion Davies appears in this romantic comedy in which Davies tries to win the love of her sister's boyfriend. A delightful picture, one of my favorites of the silent era. |
Washington, DC |
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| December 2, 20227:30 PM | Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theater [New Music for Silent Film] THE SKY PILOT (King Vidor, 1921) A drama about a preacher helping a woman (Colleen Moore) walk again after a tragic accident. A Western wintertime story: I'll accompany this feature by my favorite silent film director on the Walker theater organ at the LOC. Admission free. |
Culpeper, VA |
| November 25, 20227:00 PM | Sala Cecelia Meireles "From the Gilded Age to the Digital Age" [New Music for Silent Film] At one of Brazil's premier concert venues, I will be presenting a solo silent film performance, featuring films with Chaplin, Keaton, selections of my Sparklers, and THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY. |
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| November 6, 20222:00 PM | AFI Silent Cinema Showcase The Andrew Simpson Ensemble and Buster Keaton [New Music for Silent Film] The Andrew Simpson Ensemble presents the live premiere of my chamber ensemble score for THE SAPHEAD, Buster Keaton's first feature film (1920) AFI Silver Theatre |
Silver Spring, MD |
| October 23, 20224:00 PM | Atlas Performing Arts Center [New Music for Silent Film] DIARY OF A LOST GIRL, starring Louise Brooks (dir. GW Pabst, 1929). I'm thrilled to return for a 5th season of silent films with live music at Atlas, a series which I co-created and curate |
Washington, DC |
| September 29, 20227:15 PM | Celebrating Silent Movie Day [New Music for Silent Film] THE SPANISH DANCER (1923), starring Pola Negri and Antonio Moreno. AFI Silver Theatre |
Silver Spring, MD |
| September 25, 20227:00 PM | Maryland Hall Movie Night: “The Gaucho” [New Music for Silent Film] THE GAUCHO (1927), starring Douglas Fairbanks and Lupe Velez. |
Annapolis, MD |
| July 31, 20222:00 PM | National Gallery of Art East Building Auditorium [New Music for Silent Film] I return to the National Gallery to accompany THE WHITE SHADOW (Graham Cutts, 1924), written and edited by (uncredited) Alfred Hitchcock. Betty Compson plays identical twins in love with the same man. Part of the series "Dark Mirrors: The Double in Cinema." Free, but registration required (registration opens Friday, July 22, at 12 noon). |
Washington, DC |
| July 28, 2022 | Guitar Ensemble of Chile [Concert Music] Premiere of Chestnuts: Three Memories for Eight-Part Guitar Ensemble (2019-20) Guitar Ensemble of Chile, Javier Farias, director |
Santiago, Chile |
| July 22, 20227:30 PM CANCELED |
Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theatre [New Music for Silent Film] FLESH AND THE DEVIL (1926), with Greta Garbo and John Gilbert. A searing love-triangle drama; I'll be on the Walker theater organ. Free and open to the public. |
Culpeper, VA |
| June 26, 2022 3:00 PM | The Summer Symphony [New Music for Silent Film] Orchestral score for ONE WEEK (Buster Keaton, 1920) performed by the Summer Symphony, John Atterberry, Conductor |
Joplin, MO |
| April 29, 2022 7:30 PM | Ward Recital Hall, Catholic University of America "Breaking Down, Building Up, Moving On," a concert of music by Catholic University students and faculty. Includes a performance of my score for Buster Keaton's ONE WEEK (piano version of my orchestral score: I'll be on piano). Admission free. |
Washington, DC |
| April 23, 2022 1-5 PM | Old Greenbelt Theatre Educational workshop: "Making new Sounds for Silent Movies" I'll be leading this workshop for kids ages 9-12, helping them to create new scores with found objects and instruments for short silent films. Registration info HERE |
Greenbelt, MD |
| April 10, 2022 3:00 PM | Ampersand International Film Festival [New Music for Silent Film] ONE WEEK (Buster Keaton, 1920) I will perform my original piano score for this classic Keaton short film. Author Dana Stevens, author of a new book on Buster Keaton, will be on hand to discuss Keaton and her book, (Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century) |
Williamsburg, VA |
| March 19, 2022 7:30 PM |
University of Mary Washington Chamber Music Festival Gari Melchers Home and Studio [New music for silent film] "The Sounds of Silents," featuring my chamber ensemble score for Chaplin's EASY STREET and the premiere of my new ensemble score for Buster Keaton's THE BALLOONATIC. I'll also give a brief talk about silent film connects music, visual art, and drama. |
Falmouth, VA |
| March 6, 2022 5:00 PM |
Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church Premiere of Just One, for chorus, piano, and percussion Poetry by Roberto Ifill "Coming to Terms" Cantate Chamber Singers, Vicki Gau, Music Director A poem written in response to the murder of George Floyd was the genesis of this new work for Cantate. |
Bethesda, MD |
| February 21, 2022 2:00 PM |
AFI Silver Theatre [New Music for Silent Film] THE LINCOLN CYCLE, (aka THE SON OF DEMOCRACY) Part 2 (1917), episodes 5-7, 10 (aka THE SON OF DEMOCRACY) AFI Silver marks Abraham Lincoln's birthday (Feb. 12) and President's Day (Feb. 21) with this two-part biopic of the 16th President, released during the year of the United States' entry into the Great War. Designed as a 10-part series of stand-alone shorts (episodes 8 and 9 are lost). Dir. John M. Stahl and starring Benjamin Chapin. I will be on the AFI's Allen Organ for these. |
Silver Spring, MD |
| February 12, 2022 2:00 PM |
AFI Silver Theatre [New Music for Silent Film] THE LINCOLN CYCLE, (aka THE SON OF DEMOCRACY) Part 1 (1917), episodes 1-4 AFI Silver marks Abraham Lincoln's birthday (Feb. 12) and President's Day (Feb. 21) with this two-part biopic of the 16th President, released during the year of the United States' entry into the Great War. Designed as a 10-part series of stand-alone shorts (episodes 8 and 9 are lost). Dir. John M. Stahl and starring Benjamin Chapin. I will be on the AFI's Allen Organ for these. |
Silver Spring, MD |
2021
| November 18, 2021 7:15 PM | AFI Silver Silent Cinema Showcase [New Music for Silent Film] TOL’ABLE DAVID |
Silver Spring, MD |
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| November 16, 2021 7:15 PM | AFI Silver Silent Cinema Showcase [New Music for Silent Film] EROTIKON |
Silver Spring, MD |
| November 12, 2021 7:30 PM | McIntosh Theatre, University of Michigan Performance of Summer-Night Songs Andrew Hosler, soprano saxophone |
Ann Arbor, MI |
| November 12, 2021 7:15 PM | AFI Silver Silent Cinema Showcase [New Music for Silent Film] Buster Keaton comedy shorts program. THE BOAT, THE GOAT, THE BALLOONATIC |
Silver Spring, MD |
| November 9, 2021 7:15 PM | AFI Silver Silent Cinema Showcase [New Music for Silent Film] MISS LULU BETT |
Silver Spring, MD |
| November 6, 2021 12:45 PM | AFI Silver Silent Cinema Showcase [New Music for Silent Film] THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE (1921) |
Silver Spring, MD |
| November 5, 2021 7:15 PM | AFI Silver Silent Cinema Showcase [New Music for Silent Film] Charlie Chaplin and Friends comedy shorts program. |
Silver Spring, MD |
| November 4, 2021 7:15 PM | AFI Silver Silent Cinema Showcase [New Music for Silent Film] THE LAST WARNING Live musical accompaniment by Andrew Simpson. |
Silver Spring, MD |
| November 2, 2021 7:15 PM | AFI Silver Silent Cinema Showcase [New Music for Silent Film] WHY CHANGE YOUR WIFE? |
Silver Spring, MD |
| October 24, 2021 5:00 PM | Bethesda Presbyterian Church [Vocal Recital] Presented by Cantate Chamber Singers (Victoria Gau, Music Director) Works by Montsalvatge, Lecuona, Bolcom, Johanny Navarro, and more. Simpson's new song "Mountains and Souls" will receive its live concert premiere, as well. Cameo appearance by Cantate Chamber Singers. Anamer Castrello, mezzo-soprano; Andrew Earle Simpson, piano |
Bethesda, MD |
| September 29, 2021 7:00 PM | AFI Silver Theater Andrew Simpson returns to live performance! [New Music for Silent Film] THE LOVES OF CARMEN (1927, dir. Raoul Walsh, starring Dolores del Rio). This is presented as part of National Silent Movie Day, an initiative to screen silents across the USA! Please note AFI's COVID and masking policies on its website before coming. |
Silver Spring, MD |
| May 1, 2021 7:00 PM ET | [Livestream] Park Theatre [New Music for Silent Film] The Park Theatre presents Harold Lloyd in THE FRESHMAN (1925), with live musical accompaniment by AES. |
Jaffrey, NH |
| March 19, 2021 8:00 PM ET | [Livestream] Atlas Arts on Air [New Music for Silent Film] Atlas Arts on Air presents THE FLYING ACE, silent film with live musical accompaniment by AES  |
Livestream |
| March 15, 2021 5:30 PM ET | The Laura Coates Show Interview on The Laura Coates Show about THE FLYING ACE, a silent film which I will accompany March 19 as part of Atlas Arts on Air.  |
Sirius XM Channel 124 |
| March 10, 2021 7:00 PM ET | [Livestream] Cinema Arts Centre [New Music for Silent Film] Cinema Arts Centre presents "Anything but Silent," livestream silent comedies with live accompaniment by AES. Comedies with Harry Langdon and Charley Chase. |
Livestream |
| January 28, 2021 8:00 PM ET | [Livestream] AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film] THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE (dir. Victor Sjöström, 1921). A New Year's ghost story celebrating its 100th anniversary. Live musical accompaniment by Andrew Earle Simpson. Pay-what-you-can tickets, reservations required on Eventive |
Livestream |
2020
| December 17, 2020 8:00 PM ET | [Livestream] THE DIXIE FLYER: Live stream drama with live musical accompaniment [New Music for Silent Film] THE DIXIE FLYER (1926) is a silent railroad drama preserved by the Library of Congress. With special guest George Willeman, Library of Congress. |
Livestream |
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| December 16, 2020 7:00 PM ET | [Livestream] PIONEERING WOMEN FILMMAKERS: SILENT FILM VIEWING AND SALON [New Music for Silent Film] Presented by In Series. Featuring my original scores for two silent adventures films; Kim Tomadjolou joins me for introduction and commentary. |
Livestream |
| October 30, 2020 8:00 PM ET | [Livestream] AFI SILVER THEATRE [New Music for Silent Film] NOSFERATU, A SYMPHONY OF HORROR (1922). FREE livestream screening and performance. |
Livestream |
| October 10, 2020 7:30 PM ET | [Livestream] WILD HORSE STAMPEDE [New Music for Silent Film] Silent Western with live musical accompaniment and special guest Rob Stone (Library of Congress) |
Livestream |
| August 26, 2020 8:00 PM ET | [Livestream] "Charley's Aunt and Other Characters," [New Music for Silent Film] Silent Comedies with Live Accompaniment by Andrew Earle Simpson. Also includes "Hey There" with Harold Lloyd and two videos from the "Sparklers" Series. |
Livestream |
| August 22, 2020 4:00-5:30 PM ET | [Zoom Event] Niles Silent Film Musician Panel This panel features several active silent film musicians to discuss their work and approach to the art of silent film accompaniment. Sponsored by the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum. |
Zoom |
| August 12, 2020 8:00 PM ET | [Livestream] An Exploding Cow and Other Fancies [New Music for Silent Film] An Exploding Cow and Other Fancies: Silent Comedies with Harry Langdon and Charley Chase with Live Accompaniment by Andrew Earle Simpson. Guest David Kalat joins. |
Livestream |
| July 29, 2020 8:00 PM (45 minutes) | [Livestream on YouTube] Boxing Cats and More [New Music for Silent Film] Boxing Cats and More: Library of Congress Paper Print Films Accompanied Live by Andrew Earle Simpson |
Livestream |
| July 25, 2020 7:30 PM ET | The Columbia Orchestra [New Music for Silent Film] The Columbia Orchestra is having a streaming event featuring Buster Keaton's comedy ONE WEEK with my orchestral score. I'll also be introducing and providing commentary with CO Music Director Jason Love. |
Livestream |
| March 21, 2020 2:00 PM POSTPONED | Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theater [New Music for Silent Film] CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (with Clara Bow, 1925) Flapper Clara Bow (the "It" Girl) takes on a dramatic role, rushing to save a man falsely accused of murder and facing the death penalty. 35mm print from the LOC Film Preservation Lab. Preceded by Buster Keaton's classic short THE GOAT (1921) Admission free |
Culpeper, VA |
| March 7 and 8, 2020 | Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theater The Chamber Orchestra of Kona (Hawaii) performs my score for Buster Keaton's ONE WEEK |
Kailua-Kona, HI |
| March 1, 2020 5:00 PM | Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church Cantate Chamber Singers presents "Passion" a concert featuring Mozart's Requiem with interspersed pieces. My setting of the folk song Wayfaring Stranger is one of them, scored for chorus with soprano solo (Deborah Sternberg), strings, percussion, piano. |
Bethsda, MD |
| January 11, 2020 7:30 PM | Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theater [New Music for Silent Film] William S. Hart Double Feature: New digital restorations of films featuring the brightest star of silent Westerns BLUE BLAZES RAWDIN (1918) and THE RETURN OF DRAW EGAN (1916) I will provide new, original organ scores for both. Admission free - reservations no longer required! |
Culpeper, VA |
2019
| December 14, 2019 7:30 PM | Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theater [New Music for Silent Film] BEN-HUR (Fred Niblo, 1925). This silent classic, starring Ramon Navarro, relates the saga of Judah, Ben-Hur and his struggles against Rome and his inspired meeting with Jesus. Based on Lew Wallace's classic novel, the climactic chariot race rivals that of the later 1959 sound version with Charleton Heston. Admission free, but reservations requested |
Culpeper, VA |
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| December 11, 2019 7:00 PM | Embassy of France - La Maison Française [New Music for Silent Film] Cine- concert: Gaumont Restores: L'X Noir preceded by Animal Shorts. A program featuring an installment of a 1916 gangster serial, and some delightful short films about animals (including one directed by Alice Guy Blache). Presented by the National Gallery of Art. Free, but registration required |
Washington, DC |
| December 7, 2019 8:00 PM | St. Mark's Episcopal Church Cantate Chamber Singers presents "How Can I Keep from Singing?" I will be on keyboard and performing in other capacities on this second concert of Victoria Gau's debut season as Cantate's new Music Director! Music by Bach, Vaughan Williams, and others |
Washington, DC |
| December 1, 2019 4:00 PM | Atlas Performing Arts Center [New Music for Silent Film] STELLA DALLAS (Henry King, 1925). The 4th season of the Atlas Silent Film Series continues with this moving drama about a mother and how much she can sacrifice for her estranged daughter. I will be at the piano providing an original new score for this moving picture about family and its costs. |
Washington, DC |
| November 3, 2019 4:00 PM | Atlas Performing Arts Center [New Music for Silent Film] THE LODGER (Alfred Hitchcock, 1927). The 4th season of the Atlas Silent Film Series begins with this early Hithcock suspense masterpiece! |
Washington, DC |
| October 27, 2019 4:00 PM | Arlington Draft House [New Music for Silent Film] DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1920, starring John Barrymore) followed by Stan Laurel's hilarious short spoof DR. PYCKLE AND MR. PRIDE (1925). I join forces again with Tina Chancey (Hesperus) to present a program of Halloween horror and comedy - a program first curated by Rob Stone at the Library of Congress. |
Arlington, VA |
| October 16, 2019 7:40 PM | Alamo Drafthouse Cinema [New Music for Silent Film] THE LODGER (Alfred Hitchcock, 1927). In one of Hitchcock's best silents, a serial killer is loose in the city, and a mysterious new lodger raises suspicions among his housemates. |
Ashburn, VA |
| October 13, 2019 2:00 PM | Columbia Theater for the Performing Arts [New Music for Silent Film] West coast premiere of my orchestral score One Week, for Buster Keaton's classic short comedy. Southwest Washington Symphony Orchestra Rob Davis, conductor |
Longview, WA |
| September 21, 2019 2:00 PM | Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theater [New Music for Silent Film] An afternoon of Comedy Shorts from Hal Roach. Including Laurel and Hardy THE FINISHING TOUCH, OUR GANG KIDS, and more. |
Culpeper, VA |
| July 27, 2019 2:00 PM | Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theater [New Music for Silent Film] HULA (starring Clara Bow 1927) 35mm print produced by the LOC Film Preservation Lab! preceded by NO PUBLICITY (with Harold Lloyd, 1927) |
Culpeper, VA |
| July 26, 2019 7:30 PM | Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theater [New Music for Silent Film] KID BOOTS (starring Clara Bow, 1926) preceded by THE WAY OF ALL PANTS (with Charley Chase, 1927). Admission is free. |
Culpeper, VA |
| July 23, 2019 7:00 PM | Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival Davis Concert Hall "Sounds of Nature: Alaskan Premieres" performed by Corvus New Music Ensemble |
Fairbanks, AK |
| July 22, 2019 7:00 PM | Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival [Premiere] The Mountains in the Clouds, for violin, cello, and percussion, performed by Corvus New Music Ensemble |
Denali National Park, AK |
| July 8 - 24, 2019 | Composing in the Wilderness I have been chosen to participate in Composing in the Wilderness, an amazing adventure trip to Alaska's Denali National Park. Joining seven other composers from around the globe, we will each create a work during the trip for rehearsal and premiere by Corvus, in Denali and at the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival. |
Denali National Park, AK |
| June 16, 2019 5:00 PM | Alamo Drafthouse Cinema [New Music for Silent Film] THE LODGER (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1927). I will accompany the silent thriller starring Ivor Novello as a mysterious renter who some suspect has been murdering blonde young women in London. Part of Alamo C-Ville's Film Club screenings, I am thrilled to return! |
Charlottesville, VA |
| June 13-15, 2019 5:00 PM | Alamo Drafthouse Cinema [New Music for Silent Film] THE LODGER (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1927). I will accompany the silent thriller starring Ivor Novello as a mysterious renter who some suspect has been murdering blonde young women in London. Part of Alamo C-Ville's Film Club screenings, I am thrilled to return! |
Charlottesville, VA |
| May 23, 2019 6:00 PM | Harman Center for the Arts [Premiere] of a one-hour operatic concert suite of the Oresteia, drawing on the highlights of music from my three operas on Greek tragedy Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Furies. Soloists, chorus, instrumental chamber ensemble, supertitles. Partially funded by the Loeb Classical Library Foundation and the Society for Classical Studies. In connection with Shakespeare Theatre Company's production of Aeschylus' Oresteia. FREE ADMISSION, but reservations are requested. |
Washington, DC |
| May 18, 2019 5:00 PM | St. John's Episcopal Church Cantate Chamber Singers premieres my new work, It is Time, a 22-minute work for chorus and large chamber ensemble, commissioned by Cantate to celebrate the retirement of Music Director Gisele Becker. Incoming Music Director Victoria Gau will also particpate in co-conducting the second movement, for double chorus, with Gisele. The premiere of a commissioned work by Maurice Saylor will also be on the program. |
Bethesda, MD |
| April 25 - 28, 2019 | Rome School of Music, Drama, and Art Hartke Theater I am the composer for this CUA Drama production, based on Anne Carson's English translation of Sophocles' Antigone. The chorus sings and plays instruments. Sunday's performance features a panel discussion prior in which I will participate. |
Washington, DC |
| April 19, 2019 7:00 PM | AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film] THE WOMAN DISPUTED (dir. Henry King, 1928). Silent star Norma Talmadge stars in this drama of a woman placed in an almost impossible position during the Great War (based on Guy de Maupassant's great story, "Boule de suif"). Composer Stephen Hartke set a recent opera, called "The Greater Good," on the same story. I will accompany this 35mm print preserved by the Library of Congress with an original on the AFI's Allen organ. |
Silver Springs, MD |
| April 14, 2019 2:00 PM | AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film] THIEF OF BAGDAD (dir. Raoul Walsh, 1924, with Douglas Fairbanks) THE WINNING OF BARBARA WORTH (dir. Henry King, 1926). Part of the United Artists Centennial Retrospective. This multipart retrospective presents many of United Artists' most distinctive films, from its silent film origins through the glory days of the 1960s and '70s. |
Silver Springs, MD |
| April 7, 2019 4:00 PM | Atlas Performing Arts Center [New Music for Silent Film] I am thrilled to present 'Silent Comedy Shorts of the Jazz Age', and I've brought along an ensemble! The program includes Chaplin's EASY STREET (1917), Laurel and Hardy in LIBERTY (1929), Harry Langdon in PICKING PEACHES (1924), and Charley Chase's great TOO MANY MAMMAS (1924). Joining me to perform these fully-composed, jazz-influenced scores are fantastic clarinetist Ben Redwine (formerly of the Snark Ensemble), who is returning from New Orleans to join this program; amazing guitarist Michael Bard; and terrific drummer Alex Aucoin. These scores are specially-designed for this ensemble (some of them Snark scores already recorded on DVD). This is the final program in Atlas' third season of the Silent Film Series. It is going to be great! |
Washington, DC |
| April 6, 2019 3:45 PM | AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film] HYPOCRITES (1915, directed by Lois Weber). I accompany one of the most remarkable early film directors, Lois Weber. Weber's films often contain powerful and pointed social commentary (e.g., SHOES, WHERE ARE MY CHILDREN?, SCANDAL), and this film takes on the difficult subject of religion. |
Silver Springs, MD |
| March 31, 2019 5:00 PM | AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film] ORPHANS OF THE STORM (dir. D.W. Griffith, 1921). A French Revolution epic (150 mins) featuring real-life sisters Lillian and Dorothy Gish. Part of the United Artists retrospective. |
Silver Springs, MD |
| March 30, 2019 5:00 PM | AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film] BROKEN BLOSSOMS (1919, starring Lillian Gish). I accompany D.W. Griffith's classic on the AFI's Allen organ. Part of AFI's United Artists retrospective. |
Silver Springs, MD |
| March 23, 2019 7:30 PM | UCLA Archive Talk and Silent Film Screening [New Music for Silent Film] STAGE STRUCK (dir. Allan Dwan, 1925: starring Gloria Swanson). I will be at UCLA Film and Television Archive's Billy Wilder Theater as part of UCLA's Archive Talk series on my process in creating scores for silent film, followed by a screening of the new restoration of STAGE STRUCK, in which Gloria Swanson shows her comedic talents as a small-town waitress and aspiring actress. This is a live version of the score I recorded for the DVD-Blu-Ray with Kino-Lorber this past year, and am thrilled to present it live. |
Los Angeles, CA |
| March 16, 2019 7:30 PM | St. Columba's Episcopal Church Gallery Voices (Rosa Lamoreaux, Artistic Director). I accompany this fine group of eight voices in a diverse program dedicated to St. Patrick's Day. |
Washington, DC |
| February 24, 2019 4:00 PM | Atlas Performing Arts Center [New Music for Silent Film] THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED (dir. Lotte Reiniger, 1926). This remarkable animated feature consists of stunning visual silhouettes, created by Reiniger. Based on stories from The Arabian Nights, this film is an enchanting, imaginative journey. Presented as part of Atlas Intersections Festival. |
Washington, DC |
| February 16, 2019 8:00 PM | Dumbarton Concerts "A Feast of Love" featuring Rosa Lamoreaux, soprano, Michael Bard, guitar. Dumbarton Concerts, in partnership with the Washington Opera Society. I join the fabulous soprano Rosa Lamoreaux and guitarist Michael Bard (a first collaboration) in a diverse program of songs and opera arias ranging from the Renaissance to standards from the American Songbook. |
Washington, DC |
| January 26, 2019 2:00 PM | Library of Congress Packard Campus [New Music for Silent Film] CHAPLIN SHORTS FROM THE MUTUAL YEARS THE FIREMAN (1916), THE PAWN SHOP (1916), THE ADVENTURER (1917). Chaplin made a series of 12 short comedies for the Mutual Film Corporation in 1916-17: this amazing series of films ranks among his very best films. The three chosen here have broad comic appeal and show Chaplin at his most inventive and zany. I will accompany both programs on the Mt. Pony Theater's Walker organ. |
Washington, DC |
| January 25, 2019 2:00 PM | Library of Congress Packard Campus [New Music for Silent Film] HUSBANDS AND LOVERS (John Stahl, 1924). 35mm print produced by the LOC Film Preservation Lab. This sophisticated love-triangle story stars Lewis Stone (THE LOST WORLD) and Florence Vidor (THE POPULAR SIN). The new 35mm print was premiered at the Giornate del cinema muto festival in Pordenone, Italy, this past October. |
Washington, DC |
| January 13, 2019 2:00 PM | AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film and Lecture] I WAS BORN, BUT... (Yasujiro Ozu, 1932). Prior to the screening of this remarkable and popular Japanese silent comedy/drama, I will give a lecture and demo on my process of creating live scores for silent film. Jointly presented by the AFI Silver and Randolph-Macon College. |
Washington, DC |
2018
| December 2, 2018 4:00 PM | Atlas Performing Arts Center [New Music for Silent Film] WINGS (William Wellman, 1927) The Atlas Silent Film Series continues with the piano version of my score for this classic WW I feature - the first to win the Academy Award for Best Picture - with Clara Bow and Gary Cooper. |
Washington, DC |
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| November 18, 2018 3:00 PM | DACOR Bacon House Program features excerpts from my opera, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, solo piano piece Flower-Terrible Memories, and Birds of Love and Prey, a new song cycle written for soprano Deborah Sternberg. With Rachel Barham, Deborah Sternberg, Melissa Cregger, James Rogers, and Joseph Regan. I will be on piano. DACOR's first-ever program devoted to a living composer. |
Washington, DC |
| November 18, 2018 1:30 PM | AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film] THE GENERAL (Buster Keaton, 1926) The Columbia Orchestra returns to AFI Silver to perform my score for Keaton's Civil War masterpiece. Columbia (MD) Symphony Orchestra. Jason Love, condudctor |
Silver Spring, MD |
| November 17, 2018 8:00 PM | AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film] THE GENERAL (Buster Keaton, 1926) The Columbia Orchestra returns to AFI Silver to perform my score for Keaton's Civil War masterpiece. Columbia (MD) Symphony Orchestra; Jason Love, condudctor |
Silver Spring, MD |
| November 13, 2018 7:30 PM | Wilmington Symphony Orchestra [New Music for Silent Film] ONE WEEK (Buster Keaton, 1920) The Wilmington Symphony, recovered from the recent hurricane, presents "From the Silver Screen," featuring my orchestral score for ONE WEEK. Wilmington (NC) Symphony Orchestra; Steven Errante, conductor |
Wilmington, NC |
| November 11, 2018 12:45 PM | AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film] CORPORAL KATE (Paul Sloane, 1926) On the 100th anniversary of the armistice ending WW I, AFI is presenting a series of WW I films. I will be accompanying CORPORAL KATE, an adventure starring two manucurists who enlist in the war effort as entertainers, but the terrors of battle reach them, as well. A beautifully-produced film from Cecille B. DeMille's Producers Distributing Corporation, this is a film which deserves wider viewing. I will be reprising the score I first presented at Library of Congress' MOSTLY LOST film symposium this past summer. |
Silver Spring, MD |
| November 10, 2018 8:00 PM | AFI Silver Theatre [New Music for Silent Film] THE CAMERAMAN (Buster Keaton, 1928) Continuing the AFI's retrospective of Buster Keaton comedies, THE CAMERAMAN portrays Keaton as a photographer who decides to shoot newsreel films to impress Marcelline Day. |
Silver Spring, MD |
| November 10, 2018 6:00 PM | AFI Silver Theatre [New Music for Silent Film] THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (Richard Oswald, 1929) Long believed lost, this German-made Sherlock Holmes adventure was restored by the San Francisco Silent Film Festival in cooperation with the Polish National Film Archive. This will be my first encounter with this film. |
Silver Spring, MD |
| November 10, 2018 3:00 PM | AFI Silver Theatre [New Music for Silent Film] THE BIG PARADE (King Vidor, 1925) This epic WW I film is one of the greatest of all silent films. I reprise my organ score for this classic, starring John Gilbert and Renee Adoree. |
Silver Spring, MD |
| November 3, 2018 7:30 PM | AFI Silver Theatre [New Music for Silent Film] STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. (Charles Reisner and Buster Keaton) College boy Keaton returns home to his disapproving steamboat captain father (Ernest Torrence). Hilarity, danger, and romance ensue: includes one of the most famous stunts ever filmed. |
Silver Spring, MD |
| November 3, 2018 3:15 PM | AFI Silver Theatre [New Music for Silent Film] THE NAVIGATOR (Donald Crisp, 1924, starring Buster Keaton) This classic story of Keaton stranded on a ship yields incredible stunts (including an underwater sequence in a deep-sea diving suit). I reprise one of the first organ scores I accopmanied at AFI SILVER. |
Silver Spring, MD |
| November 2, 2018 7:30 PM | Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theater [New Music for Silent Film] WINGS (William Wellman, 1927) I reprise my organ score for this classic WW I film, the first ever to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Starring Clara Bow, with a cameo by Gary Cooper! |
Culpeper, VA |
| October 28, 2018 4:00 PM | Atlas Performing Arts Center [New Music for Silent Film] THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (Jean Epstein, 1928) The third season of the Atlas Silent Film Series opens with this fantastic but rarely-seen French silent on Poe's classic tale. Preceded by an American short with the same title, also from 1928, with remarkable camera tricks and expressionistic sets. |
Washington, DC |
| October 27, 2018 3:30 PM | Arlington Cinema and Drafthouse [New Music for Silent Film] THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI and HABEAS CORPUS (with Laurel and Hardy) I'm teaming up with Hesperus' Tina Chancey to create new scores, combining early instruments, keyboard, and electronics for this distinctive horror/comedy program! |
Arlington, VA |
| October 26, 2018 7:30 PM | Arts Barn [New Music for Silent Film] NOSFERATU: A SYMPHONY OF HORROR (F.W. Murnau, 1922) I accompany this silent classic on piano; the program is introduced by noted film critic Arch Campbell. |
Gaithersburg, MD |
| October 13, 2018 5:00 PM | St. John's Norwood Episcopal Church Cantate Chamber Singers presents "Britten". Gisele Becker leads Cantate in a program dedicated to the music of Benjamin Britten. I will be at the piano accompanying Britten arrangements of Purcell songs and on the organ for Hymn to St. Columba |
Bethesda, MD |
| September 8, 2018 11:00 AM | Old Greenbelt Theater [New Music for Silent Film] PETER PAN (Herbert Brenon, 1924) I reprise my score for this charming take on J.M. Barrie's classic tale. The opening event of OGT's Fall Family Series! |
Greenbelt, MD |
| August 26, 2018 4:00 PM | National Gallery of Art [New Music for Silent Film] GOOD REFERENCES (R. William Neill, 1920, starring Constance Talmadge) In this comedy, Talmadge's character, in need of a job but without references, pretends to be her sick friend and takes a position as secretary to a socialite. I provide a new piano score for this comedy as part of "From Vault to Screen: UCLA Festival of Preservation" at NGA. Admission free |
Washington, DC |
| August 11, 2018 7:30 PM | Edison Theater, Niles Film Museum [New Music for Silent Film] 28 mm Films on Parade Presented by Dino Everett, USC Hugh M. Hefner Moving Image Archive. Broncho Billy Silent Film Festival. I will accompany this program of films on rare 28mm stock |
Fremont, CA |
| July 13, 2018 7:30 PM | Library of Congress Packard Campus [New Music for Silent Film] A FLORIDA ENCHANTMENT (dir. Sidney Drew, 1914) This early comedy, filmed in Florida, features magic seeds and mysterious changes of gender - on the inside only! I will provide a new organ score for this comedy. Admission free |
Culpeper, VA |
| June 23, 2018 4:00 PM | National Gallery of Art [New Music for Silent Film] ANNA-LIISA (Teuvo Puro and Jussi Snellman, 1922) From Vault to Screen: Silent Films from Finland. I provide an original piano score for this film based on Minna Canth's 1895 tragedy. |
Washington, DC |
| June 15, 2018 7:30 PM | Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theater [New Music for Silent Film] SENORITA (dir. Clarence Badger, 1927) This parody of 1920's The Mark of Zorro features silent star Bebe Daniels as a female version of Douglas Fairbanks' Zorro. I provide an original organ score for this adventure film |
Culpeper, VA |
| June 14 - 16, 2018 7:30 PM | Library of Congress Packard Campus [New Music for Silent Film] Mostly Lost 7 Unidentified Film Workshop at the Library of Congress. I am one of three musicians providing on-the-spot accompaniment for unidentified films during this international event. |
Culpeper, VA |
| June 2, 2018 8:30 PM | Tampa Theater [New Music for Silent Film] THE GENERAL (starring Buster Keaton, 1926) The Florida Premiere of my orchestral score for Keaton's classic Civil War comedy. The Florida Orchestra; David Stech, conductor |
Tampa, FL |
| May 30, 2018 | Royal Conservatory of Music Performance of War Scenes (The Golden Prophecy) for alto saxophone and piano. Noah Getz, saxophone; Tomoko Honda, piano |
Brussels, Belgium |
| April 30, 2018 7:30 PM | Cinema Arts Centre [New Music for Silent Film] UNDERWORLD (Josef von Sternberg, 1927) I accompany this raw gangster film on a return to this theatrical gem on Long Island. 35 mm print |
Huntington, NY |
| April 29, 2018 6:30 PM | Alamo Drafthouse Cinema [New Music for Silent Film] THE LOST WORLD (dir. Harry O. Hoyt, 1925) In this adventure film, actual living dinosaurs are discovered in the remote Amazon. A la King Kong, a dinosaur is brought back to London for display. |
Charlottesville, VA |
| April 28, 2018 7:30 PM | Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theater [New Music for Silent Film] BACK PAY (1927, dir. Frank Borzage) A romantic drama about a young woman who leaves the country for New York, only to face the choice of an unscrupulous big-city businessman or the boy she left behind. Admission free |
Culpeper, VA |
| April 22, 2018 3:00 PM | Atlas Performing Arts Center [New Music for Silent Film] The 2nd season of Atlas' Silent Film Series concludes with the fun flapper comedy IT (1927), starring Clara Bow (the "It" Girl) |
Washington, DC |
| March 17, 2018 4:00 and 7:30 PM | Hoffmann Auditorium, University of St. Joseph [New Music for Silent Film] ONE WEEK (orchestral score) Farmington Valley Symphony Orchestra |
W. Hartford, CT |
| February 28, 2018 8:00 PM | Catholic University of America The Golden Prophecy Noah Getz, alto saxophone; Andrew Earle Simpson, piano. Ward Recital Hall |
Washington, DC |
| February 24, 2018 7:30 PM | Riverside High School [New Music for Silent Film] THE IMMIGRANT (orchestral score) Loudoun Symphony Orchestra, Jason Love, guest conductor |
Leesburg, VA |
| February 11, 2018 4:00 PM | Atlas Performing Arts Center [New Music for Silent Film] LA BOHEME (1926, dir. King Vidor) Lillian Gish and John Gilbert star in this shattering version of the same story which inspired Puccini's opera. |
Washington, DC |
| January 20, 2018 5:00 PM | St. John's Norwood Cantate Chamber Singers: "A Joyful Noise - The Rest is Silence". I will appear as conductor, pianist, and organist during this concert. |
Bethesda, MD |
| January 18, 2018 7:30 PM | University of Mary Washington [New Music for Silent Film] THE GENERAL (starring Buster Keaton, 1926) Preceded by a talk by Kendra Preston Leonard |
Fredericksburg, VA |
2017
| December 28, 2017 7:00 PM | Edgewater Beach Apartments [New Music for Silent Film] Program of silent comedy shorts (Langdon, Chase, Keaton) |
Chicago, IL |
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| December 6, 2017 8:00 PM | Catholic University of America CUA faculty piano artist Nikita Fitenko premieres my short work, The Pints of Little Rome, part of a multi-movement suite of new pieces by CUA student and faculty composers inspired by Schumann's "Scenes from Childhood." Ward Recital Hall |
Washington, DC |
| December 2-3, 2017 3:00 PM | The Atlas Performing Arts Center [New Music for Silent Film] PETER PAN A special family presentation of the classic story, with actors reading the intertitles aloud. Free popcorn. Appropriate for ages 6-up, involves some audience participation. |
Washington, DC |
| November 21, 2017 7:15 PM | AFI Silver Theatre [New Music for Silent Film] CHICAGO (dir. Frank Urson, 1927) |
Silver Spring, MD |
| November 12, 2017 4:00 PM | National Gallery of Art [New Music for Silent Film] FRAGMENT OF AN EMPIRE (Fridrikh Ermler, 1929) followed by EARTH (Alexander Dovzhenko, 1930) Two more films from the early Soviet era: the first dealing with a Russian soldier who loses his memory during WWI and recovers it post-Revolution, the second a drama featuring conflicts around farm collectivization. I will create new piano scores to accompany both. Part of the NGA's series "Revolutionary Rising: Soviet Film Vanguard" |
Washington, DC |
| November 9, 2017 7:15 PM | AFI Silver Theatre [New Music for Silent Film] CHILDREN OF DIVORCE (starring Gary Cooper and Clara Bow, 1927) This sentimental drama shows the results of a not-uncommon 1920's event: couples waking up to discover themselves married after an under-the-influence wedding the night before which they cannot remember. The story revolves around such mistakenly-married couple trying to honor the marital commitment and not divorce - as their own parents did. I will provide a theater organ score for this lovely film. Part of AFI's Silent Cinema Showcase. |
Silver Spring, MD |
| November 4, 2017 2:30 PM | National Gallery of Art [New Music for Silent Film] Ciné-Concert: OLD AND NEW (THE GENERAL LINE) (dir. Sergei Eisenstein) Sergei Eisenstein's film about changes in agriculture after the Soviet Revolution. I will provide a new piano score for this. Part of the NGA's series "Revolutionary Rising: Soviet Film Vanguard". East Building Auditorium |
Washington, DC |
| November 2, 2017 7:30 PM | Library of Congress Packard Campus [New Music for Silent Film] SAFETY LAST! (starring Harold Lloyd, 1923) I accompany this classic silent (with the iconic image of Lloyd hanging from the clock's hands) on the Mt. Pony Theater's Walker theater organ |
Culpeper, VA |
| October 29, 2017 4:00 PM | Atlas Performing Arts Center [New Music for Silent Film] CABINET OF DOCTOR CALIGARI (1920) and THE DEVIL'S ASSISTANT (1917) |
Washington, DC |
| October 27, 2017 7:30 PM | AFI Silver Theatre [New Music for Silent Film] NOSFERATU (dir. F.W. Murnau, 1922) |
Silver Spring, MD |
| October 21, 2017 4:00 PM | National Gallery of Art [New Music for Silent Film] Ciné-Concert: Mother Revolutionary Rising: Soviet Film Vanguard |
Washington, DC |
| October 7, 2017 7:30 PM | Jim Rouse Theater [New Music for Silent Film] Columbia Orchestra (Jason Love, Music Director) presents the Premiere of my new score for Chaplin's THE IMMIGRANT (1917) |
Washington, DC |
| September 23, 2017 4:00 PM | National Gallery of Art [New Music for Silent Film] Aloha Wanderwell Baker: Film Adventuress From Vault to Screen: Restorations from the Academy Film Archive. I will be providing music to accompany films of Baker as part of this presentation. |
Washington, DC |
| August 19, 2017 2:00 PM | National Gallery of Art [New Music for Silent Film] LE MIRACLE DES LOUPS (dir. Raymond Bernard, 1924) This French historical drama depicts the struggle between King Louis XI and Charles the Bold of Burgundy, and a final scene filmed on location at Carcassonne, a French city which still retains its medieval walls. I will provide a new piano score for this film. presented as part of a series entitled "Gaumont at 120." |
Washington, DC |
| August 19, 2017 2:00 PM | National Gallery of Art [New Music for Silent Film] LE MIRACLE DES LOUPS (dir. Raymond Bernard, 1924) This French historical drama depicts the struggle between King Louis XI and Charles the Bold of Burgundy, and a final scene filmed on location at Carcassonne, a French city which still retains its medieval walls. I will provide a new piano score for this film. presented as part of a series entitled "Gaumont at 120." |
Washington, DC |
| August 14, 2017 7:00 PM | Harvard Film Archive [New Music for Silent Film] THE WILDCAT (dir. Ernst Lubitsch, 1921) This early Lubitsch comedy stars the evocative Pola Negri as the daughter of a mountain bandit who captivates the soldier sent out to capture her father. This will be my debut appearance at Harvard Film Archive. |
Cambridge, MA |
| July 15, 2017 7:30 PM | Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theater [New Music for Silent Film] BREAKFAST AT SUNRISE (dir. Malcom St. Clair, 1927) A light comedy starring Constance Talmadge, a comedienne who was one of a trio of sisters active as silent film actors |
Culpeper, VA |
| July 13, 2017 | Piazza del Duomo Jupiter Jones in Italy Maryland Classic Youth Orchestra; Simeone Tartaglione, conductor |
Cremona, Italy |
| July 11, 2017 | Loggia dei Lanzi Jupiter Jones in Italy Maryland Classic Youth Orchestra; Simeone Tartaglione, conductor |
Florence, Italy |
| July 9, 2017 | St. Paul's Inside the Walls Jupiter Jones in Italy Maryland Classic Youth Orchestra; Simeone Tartaglione, conductor |
Rome, Italy |
| July 8, 2017 | Royal Chapel of the Palace of Caserta Jupiter Jones in Italy Maryland Classic Youth Orchestra; Simeone Tartaglione, conductor |
Caserta, Italy |
| July 8, 2017 | Vila do Conde International Film Festival European Premiere of THE GENERAL Atlantic Coast Orchestra; Luis Clemente, Music Director |
Vila do Conde, Portugal |
| June 4, 2017 7:30 PM | Library of Congress Packard Campus [New Music for Silent Film] Double Feature: NOW WE'RE IN THE AIR (Paramount, 1927) restored by San Francisco Silent Film Festival, CORPORAL KATE (DeMille Pictures, Corp. 1926) This is part of the 6th annual Mostly Lost film identification workshop at LOC; I will again be part of the team accompanying unidentified silents during the three-day event. |
Culpeper, VA |
| June 4, 2017 2:00 PM | Smithsonian Museum of American History [New Music for Silent Film] CROSSROADS (1928, dir. Teinosuke Kinugasa) Freer-Sackler Gallery presents the intense, amazing Japanese silent. Warner Bros. Theater |
Washington, DC |
| June 3, 2017 5:00 PM | First Congregational United Church of Christ Cantate Chamber Singers presents "A Choral Fringe Festival," consisting of music by numerous composers including Barber, Grace Williams, and Elizabeth Maconchy |
Washington, DC |
| May 25, 2017 7:30 PM | The Music Center at Strathmore Maryland Classic Youth Orchestra's Symphony gives the World Premiere of Jupiter Jones: A Cinematic Adventure for Symphony Orchestra, commissioned by MYCO |
North Bethesda, MD |
| May 20, 2017 7:30 PM | Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theater [New Music for Silent Film] Double Feature: THE LAST EDITION (dir. Emory Johnson, 1925) and THE FINAL EXTRA (dir. James P. Hogan, 1927) New scores on the LOC's Walker Wurlitzer digital theater organ |
Culpeper, VA |
| May 18, 2017 7:30 PM | Cinema Arts Centre [New Music for Silent Film] SHOW PEOPLE (1928, dir. King Vidor, starring Marion Davies) I perform my piano score accompaniment |
Huntington, NY |
| May 6, 2017 2:00 PM | National Gallery of Art [New Music for Silent Film] Cine-Concert: Contemporary Experiments in Animation. I perform several newly-composed scores to accompany digital animations, with percussionist Nobue Matsuoka. |
Washington, DC |
| April 26, 2017 7:00 PM | Arts Club of Washington [New Music for Silent Film] "Evenings with Extraordinary Artists", I present a program of silent film with new musical accompaniment. Reception to follow. |
Washington, DC |
| April 23, 2017 3:00 PM | Atlas Performing Arts Center [New Music for Silent Film] WHY BE GOOD? (dir. William A. Seiter, 1929) Colleen Moore, the essential flapper, stars in this Jazz-Age comedy as a good girl with a bad reputation. Final offering of the Atlas' first silent film series season! Free popcorn! |
Washington, DC |
| April 8, 2017 5:00 PM | St. Mark's Episcopal Church Cantate Chamber Singers presents: "Seven Last Words and Seven First Hearings". Cantate presents James MacMillan's powerful "Seven Last Words" and seven new pieces created by composers affilliated with Cantate. |
Washington, DC |
| April 4, 2017 12:30 PM | Guest lecturer University of Maryland College Park Composition Colloquium |
College Park, MD |
| March 18, 2017 7:30 PM | Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theater [New Music for Silent Film] GET YOUR MAN (dir. Dorothy Arzner, 1927) The "It" girl Clara Bow stars in this romantic comedy: film restored by Library of Congress |
Culpeper, VA |
| February 26, 2017 7:00 PM | Atlas Intersections 2017 festival The Snark Ensemble returns to the scene with a revival of The Comic Roach: A Roadhouse Picture Show. |
Washington, DC |
| February 25, 2017 9:00 PM | Atlas Intersections 2017 festival The Snark Ensemble returns to the scene with a revival of The Comic Roach: A Roadhouse Picture Show. |
Washington, DC |
| February 22, 2017 6:00 PM | Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theater [New Music for Silent Film] Kennedy Center Millennium Stage Silent Film Comedy Shorts: WHEN KNIGHTS WERE COLD (starring Stan Laurel, 1923); Harry Langdon in THE FIRST 100 YEARS and THE HANSOM CABMAN; Charley Chase in TOO MANY MAMMAS |
Washington, DC |
| February 12, 2017 4:00 PM | Atlas Performing Arts Center [New Music for Silent Film] Greta Garbo in FLESH AND THE DEVIL (Clarence Brown ,1926) |
Washington, DC |
| February 10, 2017 7:30 PM | Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theater [New Music for Silent Film] THE ROUND-UP (with Fatty Arbuckle, 1920) Program includes music by Zwilich, Martinu, Stacy Garrop, and my own Applets |
Culpeper, VA |
| February 1, 2017 7:00 PM | George Mason University, Harris Theatre Michael Cameron (Professor of Double Bass, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), bass; Andrew E Simpson, piano Program includes music by Zwilich, Martinu, Stacy Garrop, and my own Applets |
Fairfax, VA |
| January 30, 2017 8:00 PM | University of Maryland College Park, Leah M. Smith Hall Michael Cameron (Professor of Double Bass, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), bass; Andrew E Simpson, piano Program includes music by Zwilich, Martinu, Stacy Garrop, and my own Applets |
College Park, MD |
| January 21, 2017 3:30 PM | National Gallery of Art [New Music for Silent Film] Cine-Concert: Cinema Fashionista Silent Film Series: Jean Desmet's Dream Factory, 1906-16 |
Washington, DC |
| January 21, 2017 1:30 PM | National Gallery of Art [New Music for Silent Film] Cine-Concert: Perils of the Pictures Silent Film Series: Jean Desmet's Dream Factory, 1906-16 |
Washington, DC |
| January 15, 2017 5:30 PM | National Gallery of Art [New Music for Silent Film] Cine-Concert: When the Earth Trembled Silent Film Series: Jean Desmet's Dream Factory, 1906-16 |
Washington, DC |
| January 15, 2017 4:00 PM | National Gallery of Art [New Music for Silent Film] Cine-Concert: The Colorful World of Cinema Silent Film Series: Jean Desmet's Dream Factory, 1906-16 |
Washington, DC |
| January 14, 2017 3:30 PM | National Gallery of Art [New Music for Silent Film] Cine-Concert: Ladies First Silent Film Series: Jean Desmet's Dream Factory, 1906-16 |
Washington, DC |
| January 14, 2017 1:30 PM | National Gallery of Art [New Music for Silent Film] Cine-Concert: Up in the Air Silent Film Series: Jean Desmet's Dream Factory, 1906-16 |
Washington, DC |
2016
| December 17, 2016 2:00 PM | National Gallery of Art [New Music for Silent Film] THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL (1928, Jean Renoir) I provide a new piano score for this Jean Renoir silent classic on the Hans Christian Andersen tale. |
Washington, DC |
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| December 11, 2016 4:00 PM | Atlas Silent Film Series [New Music for Silent Film] THE KID (Chaplin, 1921) The second offering of this new series presents Chaplin's classic silent comedy THE KID, with my new piano score. |
Washington, DC |
| December 1, 2016 7:30 PM | University of Maryland, College Park [New Music for Silent Film] Music + Film at UMD WHISPERING SHADOWS (Emile Chataud, 1921) I perform a new piano score for this feature silent film as guest performer at UMD. |
College Park, MD |
| November 30, 2016 7:00 PM | Music + Film at UMD I give a master class for UMD students composing and performing new scores for short silent films. |
College Park, MD |
| November 17-20, 2016 7:30/2:00 PM | Ward Recital Hall, Catholic University of America Catholic University presents my one-act chamber opera, The Outcasts of Poker Flat based on Bret Harte's short story, in a new version with chamber ensemble. |
Washington, DC |
| November 12, 2016 1:00 PM | National Gallery of Art [New Music for Silent Film] Catholic University presents my one-act chamber opera, The Outcasts of Poker Flat based on Bret Harte's short story, in a new version with chamber ensemble. |
Washington, DC |
| November 5, 2016 7:30 PM | Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theater [New Music for Silent Film] WILD HORSE MESA (George B. Seitz, 1925) I provide a new organ score for this Western based on a novel by Zane Grey and starring a young Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Free Admission. |
Culpeper, VA |
| November 2, 2016 7:30 PM | AFI Silver Theatre [New Music for Silent Film] WHISPERING SHADOWS (Emile Chataud, 1921) I re-present my organ score for this rare film, both of which made a stir when screened at Library of Congress' Mostly Lost symposium this past summer. |
Culpeper, VA |
| October 13, 2016 6:30 and 8:00 PM | National Gallery of Art [New Music for Silent Film] Parallel Practives Modern Re-Mixed: ENTR'ACTE (Rene Clair, 1924); BALLET MECANIQUE (Fernand Leger, 1924); ANEMIC CINEMA (Marcel Duchamp, 1926) After Hours in the East Building, part of a year-long celebration of the East Building's reopening. Free, but online registration required. For audiences 21-over. |
Washington, DC |
| September 25, 2016 4:00 PM | Atlas Center for the Performing Arts [New Music for Silent Film] BEHIND THE SCREEN (Charlie Chaplin, 1916) SHOW PEOPLE (King Vidor, 1928) I inaugurate the New Atlas Silent Film Series with two classic silents about film making. |
Washington, DC |
| September 4, 2016 2:00 PM | AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film] THE TOLL OF THE SEA (Chester M. Franklin, 1922) Anna Mae Wong, stars in her first starring role in the first Technicolor feature filmed in Hollywood. Part of the series, "Glorious Technicolor" I provide a new theater organ score for this feature. |
Silver Spring, MD |
| September 3, 2016 2:00 PM | AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film] REDSKIN (Victor Schertzinger, 1929) Richard Dix stars as Navajo Wing Foot, in a remarkably sensitive portrayal of Native American experience. Includes numerous lovely Technicolor sequences. Part of the series, "Glorious Technicolor" I reprise an organ score earlier premiered at LOC Culpeper. |
Silver Spring, MD |
| August 27, 2016 7:30 PM | Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theater [New Music for Silent Film] CAPTAIN BLOOD (David and Albert E. Smith, 1924) A swashbuckling adventure, starring J. Warren Kerrifan and Jean Paige as Arabella, made a few years before the 1935 remake starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland. I will provide a new theater organ score. |
Culpeper, VA |
| August 6, 2016 2:00 PM | Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theater [New Music for Silent Film] THE BELOVED ROGUE (Alan Crosland 1927) John Barrymore stars as medieval French poet Francois Villon. I provide a new theater organ score for this historical drama. |
Culpeper, VA |
| July 27, 2016 7:30 PM | Cinema Arts Centre [New Music for Silent Film] FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE (dir. Sam Taylor, 1926) |
Huntington, NY |
| July 15, 2016 7:30 PM | Strand Theater [New Music for Silent Film] Too Many Mammas: Silent Comedies of the Jazz Age A program of films with Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon, and Charley Chase. |
Shelbyville, IN |
| June 16 - June 18, 2016 | Library Of Congress Packard Campus [New Music for Silent Film] MOSTLY LOST 5 - A three-day symposium which attracts film specialists from around the globe who work together to identify unknown films. I am one of three accompanists at the bench, and will provide music for the Thursday, June 16 public program |
Culpeper, VA |
| June 16, 2016 7:30 PM | Library Of Congress Packard Campus [New Music for Silent Film] WHISPERING SHADOWS (dir. Emile Chautard, 1921) THAT MODEL FROM PARIS (dir. Louis J. Gasnier, 1926) |
Culpeper, VA |
| May 14, 2016 7:30 PM | First Congregational United Church of Christ [Premiere] Patterns and Lines, for chorus, string quartet and harp. Commissioned by Cantate Chamber Singers. Gisele Becker, Music Director and Conductor; James Rogers, baritone soloist |
Washington, DC |
| May 14, 2016 1:45 PM | The Mansion at Strathmore I present a lecture on scoring for silent film and visual media, entitled "Score!" Part of Strathmore's "Seminars for Career Musicians." |
North Bethesda, MD |
| May 11, 2016 8:45 PM | Cinema Trevi/Cineteca Nazionale [New Music for Silent Film] American Silent Film Comedies at Rome's Cinema Trevi. I accompany a program of American silent film comedies starring Harry Langdon and Charley Chase, in piano versions of my scores. Presented by the Cineteca Nazionale. |
Vicolo del Puttarello, Roma |
| April 30, 2016 7:00 PM | AFI Silver Theatre Performance of my orchestral score for THE GENERAL (Buster Keaton, 1926). A repeat performance, back by popular demand, of Maestro Love and CO's 2014 performances of THE GENERAL at AFI. The Columbia Orchestra; Jason Love, conductor |
Silver Spring, MD |
| May 1, 2016 2:00 PM | AFI Silver Theatre Performance of my orchestral score for THE GENERAL (Buster Keaton, 1926). A repeat performance, back by popular demand, of Maestro Love and CO's 2014 performances of THE GENERAL at AFI. The Columbia Orchestra; Jason Love, conductor |
Silver Spring, MD |
| April 17, 2016 4:00 PM | St. Matthew's Cathedral [Premiere] of Agamemnon Suite, for orchestra (Based on music from the opera Agamemnon). An orchestral suite of arias from this operatic work based on Aeschylus' ancient Greek tragedy. Catholic University of America Symphony Orchestra; Simeone Tartaglione, conductor |
Washington, DC |
| March 17-19, 2016 | Estonian Academy of Music and Theater Guest Composer Residency |
Tallinn, Estonia |
| January 8, 2016 7:30 PM | Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theater [New Music for Silent Film] THE IRON HORSE (John Ford, 1924) I will be at the Packard Campus Wurlitzer organ accompanying this epic screen homage to the steam locomotive, depicting the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. |
Culpeper, VA |
2015
| December 17, 2015 7:30 PM | National Gallery of Art [New Music for Silent Film] SO'S YOUR OLD MAN (1926, dir. Gregory LaCava, starring W.C. Fields) |
Huntington, NY |
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| December 11, 2015 7:30 PM | Ward Recital Hall, Catholic University [Premiere] Birds of Love and Prey, new song cycle based on texts about birds from antiquity to the present. Deborah Sternberg, soprano, Andrew Simpson, piano. |
Washington, DC |
| December 6, 2015 2:00 PM | National Gallery of Art East Wing Auditorium Rajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture: Technicolor at 100 |
Washington, DC |
| December 5, 2015 7:30 PM | St. John's Norwood Parish Cantate Chamber Singers presents "I Heard it on the Radio," a program featuring Benjamin Britten The Company of Heaven and winner of Young Composer's Contest piece. I'm at the organ for this performance. |
Bethesda, MD |
| November 21, 2015 7:30 PM | AFI Silver Theater All-Chaplin program [New Music for Silent Film] The Snark Ensemble returns to the AFI Silver! Program features the premiere of my score for EASY STREET (Charles Chaplin, 1917). Program also includes THE RINK and BEHIND THE SCREEN |
Silver Spring, MD |
| November 15, 2015 5:30 PM | AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film] BEYOND THE ROCKS (dir. Sam Wood, 1922) Starring Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino |
Silver Spring, MD |
| November 15, 2015 5:30 PM | AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film] BEYOND THE ROCKS (dir. Sam Wood, 1922) Starring Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino |
Silver Spring, MD |
| November 14, 2015 7:30 PM | AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film] WINGS (William Wellman, 1927) This stirring picture about WW I American aviators stars Clara Bow, with a small appearance by Gary Cooper. WINGS won the first Academy Award for Best Production. |
Silver Spring, MD |
| November 8, 2015 7:30 PM | Weinberg Center for the Performing Arts Cantate Chamber Singers performs Simpson's score for THE WIND (Victor Seastrom, 1928) for chorus, theater organ, and percussion. Part of the Silent Film Series at the Weinberg Center for the Performing Arts. |
Frederick, MD |
| October 29, 2015 7:30 PM | Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center [New Music for Silent Film] Snark Ensemble presents a program of silent films with live music at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland. Presented by Music + Film at the University of Maryland. Program, includes Simpson's LIBERTY. |
College Park, MD |
| October 28, 2015 7:30 PM | University of Maryland The Snark Ensemble master class at the University of Maryland |
College Park, MD |
| October 19-23, 2015 | Tweed Museum of Art [Premiere] University of Minnesota-Duluth Tweed Museum of Art Presentation for UMD students, premiere of a new work performed by UMD instrumentalists in connection with the opening of an exhibition, Windows, by visual artist Sharon Louden. |
Duluth, MN |
| August 29, 2015 7:30 PM POSTPONED |
Library of Congress Packard Campus [New Music for Silent Film] VENUS OF THE SOUTH SEAS (James R. Sullivan, 1924) Drama involving a greedy ship captain's desire for the wealth of a young heiress |
Culpeper, VA |
| July 31, 2015 7:30 PM | Library of Congress Packard Campus [New Music for Silent Film] THE NEW KLONDIKE (Lewis Milestone, 1926) Baseball film from an Academy Award-winning director. |
Culpeper, VA |
| April 19, 2015 5:00 PM | Metropolitan African-American Methodist Church Cantate Chamber Singers, "A Meditation on Civil Rights," featuring the premiere of Baltimore composer Judah Adashi's new work RISE (with Howard University's AfroBlue a cappella group) As Cantate's Keyboard Artist, I'll be on piano for this performance |
Washington, DC |
| April 11, 2015 7:30 PM | Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theater [New Music for Silent Film] ORPHANS OF THE STORM (D. W. Griffith, 1921) With Chris DeChiara, percussion. A classic drama of the French Revolution, starring sisters Lillian and Dorothy Gish |
Culpeper, VA |
| March 29, 2015 5:30 PM | AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film] THE WIND (Victor Seastrom, 1928) premiere of organ-percussion version of my 2012 score. With Chris DeChiara, percussion. |
Silver Springs, MD |
| March 21-22, 2015 | AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film] Cinefest |
Syracuse, NY |
| March 9, 2015 7:30 PM | Guest Artist - Kresge Auditorium, DePauw University [New Music for Silent Film] AELITA, QUEEN OF MARS (Yakov Protazonov, 1924) |
Greencastle, IN |
| March 1, 2015 7:30 PM | Bradley Hills Presbyterian Church J.S. Bach, St. John Passion (1749 version) Cantate Chamber Singers, Gisele Becker, conductor |
Bethesda, MD |
| February 21, 2015 7:30 PM | Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theater [New Music for Silent Film] DRAGON PAINTER (William Worthington, 1919, starring Sussue Hayakawa) ONE WEEK (Buster Keaton and Eddie Cline, 1920) Premiere of organ version of new score |
Bethesda, MD |
| February 20, 2015 7:30 PM | Church of the Little Flower [Premiere] 14 new movements for string quartet on Stations of the Cross Commissioned by the BTRSOM in celebration of its 50th anniversary |
Bethesda, MD |
| January 31, 2015 7:30 PM | Theater Jim Rouse [Premiere] New orchestral score for Buster Keaton's comedy ONE WEEK (1920). Commissioned by the Columbia Orchestra. Columbia Orchestra, Jason Love, Music Director and Conductor |
Columbia, MD |
| January 24, 2015 7:30 PM | Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theater [New Music for Silent Film] FEEL MY PULSE (Gregory La Cava, 1928), THE AIR MAIL (Irvin Wallat, 1925) |
Culpeper, VA |
| January 23, 2015 7:30 PM | Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theater [New Music for Silent Film] TWO TARS (MGM, 1928, starring Laurel and Hardy) and other shorts |
Culpeper, VA |
2014
| November 22, 2014 7:15 PM | AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film] THE GENERAL (chamber orchestral score) Columbia Symphony Orchestra; Jason Love, conductor |
Silver Spring, MD |
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| November 22, 2014 1:00 PM | AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film] THE IRON HORSE (dir. John Ford, 1924) |
Silver Spring, MD |
| November 21, 2014 7:15 PM | AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film] THE GENERAL (chamber orchestral score) Columbia Symphony Orchestra; Jason Love, conductor |
Silver Spring, MD |
| November 10, 2014 7:00 PM | Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Composition Seminar Guest Composer |
Bloomington, IN |
| November 9, 2014 3:00 PM | Indiana University Cinema [New Music for Silent Film] THE GENERAL (starring Buster Keaton, 1926, chamber orchestral score) IU student orchestra, conducted by the composer |
Bloomington, IN |
| November 8, 2014 7:00 PM | Indiana University Cinema [New Music for Silent Film] THE GENERAL (starring Buster Keaton, 1926, chamber orchestral score) IU student orchestra, conducted by the composer |
Bloomington, IN |
| November 1, 2014 7:30 PM | Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theater [New Music for Silent Film] SCARAMOUCHE (Rex Ingram, 1923) |
Culpeper, VA |
| October 10, 2014 8:30 AM | Classical Association of the Atlantic States Annual Meeting Academic paper presentation. Musical Appropriations of Classical Antiquity. |
Washington, DC |
| September 6, 2014 4:00 PM | AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film] ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (Lewis Milestone, 1930) |
Silver Spring, MD |
| September 1, 2014 5:00 PM | AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film] WINGS (William Wellman, 1927). Winner of the first Academy Award for Best Production. |
Silver Spring, MD |
| August 23, 2014 2:00 PM | National Gallery of Art [New Music for Silent Film] THE BIG PARADE (King Vidor, 1925) Warner Brothers Theater, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, in partnership with the National Gallery of Art. |
Washington, DC |
| August 3, 2014 2:00 PM | AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film] FOUR SONS (John Ford, 1928) |
Washington, DC |
| July 22, 2014 12:10 PM | Church of the Epiphany Tuesday Concert Series Music of Berg, Rachmaninoff, Faure, and Strauss James Rogers, baritone; Andrew Simpson, piano |
Washington, DC |
| July 19, 2014 7:30 PM | The Snark Ensemble [New Music for Silent Film] The Snark Ensemble presents a program of original chamber scores for silent film comedies, including THE HANSOM CABMAN (1924, starring Harry Langdon) |
Washington, DC |
| June 29, 2014 4:00 PM | AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film] New chamber ensemble scores for three Chaplin masterpieces: BEHIND THE SCREEN (Saylor), THE RINK (Carluzzo), EASY STREET (Simpson) Part of AFI's "Charlie Chaplin: The Tramp Turns 100" series. With the Snark Ensemble. |
Silver Spring, MD |
| June 14, 2014 3:30 PM | AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film] New piano and organ scores for three Chaplin masterpieces: THE CURE, THE IMMIGRANT, THE ADVENTURER. Part of AFI's "Charlie Chaplin: The Tramp Turns 100" series. |
Silver Spring, MD |
| May 18, 2014 1:00 PM | Smithsonian American Art Museum, McEvoy Auditorium [New Music for Silent Film] BEN-HUR (Fred Niblo, 1925) |
Silver Spring, MD |
| May 16, 2014 7:30 PM | The Lyceum [Premiere] Birds of Love and Prey song cycle for soprano and piano. Deborah Sternberg, soprano; Mark Vogel, piano |
Alexandria, VA |
| May 9, 2014 7:30 PM | Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theater [New Music for Silent Film] Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (John S. Robertson, 1920) |
Culpeper, VA |
| May 3, 2014 7:30 PM | St. John's Norwood Cantate Chamber Singers: "Dear Ben..." music by friends of Benjamin Britten. (Shostakovich, Copland, Poulenc, Imogen Holst) |
Chevy Chase, MD |
| April 27, 2014 5:15 PM | AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film] CHAPLIN AT KEYSTONE Piano scores to accompany several short films on the 100th anniversary of the creation of Chaplin's "Tramp" character |
Silver Spring, MD |
| April 13, 2014 3:30 PM | AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film] KINDRED OF THE DUST (Raoul Walsh, 1922) Dramatic story set in the Pacific Northwest. |
Silver Spring, MD |
| April 11, 2014 7:30 PM | AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film] RAMONA (1928) East Coast premiere of the LOC's newly-restored version of this Western drama starring Dolores Del Rio. |
Silver Spring, MD |
| April 5, 2014 1:45 PM | AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film] THE RED DANCE (Raoul Walsh, 1928) |
Silver Spring, MD |
| March 29, 2014 8:00 PM | Footlite Musicals [New Music for Silent Film] THE WIND (Victor Seastrom, 1928) Performed by Encore Vocal Arts, Gregory Ristow, Artistic Director |
Indianapolisg, IN |
| February 8, 2014 5:30 PM | AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film] REGENERATION (Raoul Walsh, 1915) |
Indianapolisg, IN |
| January 25, 2014 1:00 PM | National Gallery of Art [New Music for Silent Film] BE MY WIFE (Max Linder, 1921) |
Washington, DC |
| January 18, 2014 4:00 PM | National Gallery of Art [New Music for Silent Film] Two Max Linder comedies: SEVEN YEARS' BAD LUCK (Max Linder, 1921) THE THREE MUST-GET-THERES (Max Linder, 1922) |
Washington, DC |
| January 12, 2014 6:30 PM | National Gallery of Art [New Music for Silent Film] THE GENERAL (1926, dir. Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman) National Gallery of Art Orchestra (Andrew Simpson, guest conductor) |
Washington, DC |
2013
| November 23, 2013 7:30 PM | Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theater [New Music for Silent Film] THE DUMB GIRL OF PORTICI (dir. Phillips Smalley and Lois Weber, 1916) This film, based on Daniel Auber's 1828 grand opera, depicts amorous and political intrigues. Anna Pavlova, the celebrated ballerina, appears in this, her only feature film, as the "dumb girl" (la "muette," or "mute girl," of the title). |
Culpeper, VA |
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| November 22, 2013 8:00 PM | St. Paul's Lutheran Church Cantate Chamber Singers: Benjamin Britten's 100th Birthday Concert On the exact 100th birthday of British composer Benjamin Britten, Cantate will present the US premiere of the composer's version of Mozart's Requiem, his marvelous Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings (featuring tenor soloist Robert Baker of Washington National Opera and hornist Laurel Ohlson of the NSO). And, the little-known Cantata Misericordium will also be presented. I'll be on piano for the Cantata and organ for the Mozart. |
Washington, DC |
| November 17, 2013 2:00 PM | State Theater [New Music for Silent Film] THE KID (dir. Charles Chaplin, 1921) This wonderful film, one of Chaplin's best combinations of slapstick and sentiment, introduces child star Jackie Coogan in a heartbreaking performance. I'll be providing a new piano score to accompany this gem at the newly-restored State Theater |
Culpeper, VA |
| November 1 & 2, 2013 7:30/9:45 PM | AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film] Halloween double bill - Two films each night! I will be providing new organ scores for these newly-restored 35mm prints! NOSFERATU: A SYMPHONY OF HORROR, followed by PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. |
Silver Spring, MD |
| October 13, 2013 2:00 PM | State Theater [New Music for Silent Film] Library of Congress presents WINGS (William Wellman, 1927) I reprise my piano score for this classic WW I film at Culpeper's newly-restored State Theater. |
Culpeper, VA |
| October 3, 2013 4:00 PM | Ulrich Recital Hall, University of Maryland College Park [New Music for Silent Film] University of Maryland Japan Speaker Series and Film Studies Program present I WAS BORN BUT... (Ozu Yasujiro, 1932) |
College Park, MD |
| September 29, 2013 4:00 PM | National Gallery of Art [Premiere] My piece Summer-Night Songs will be performed by Pictures on Silence. This features the premiere of a new silent film especially created by Chicago-based filmmaker Nick Ferrario to accompany the piece. |
College Park, MD |
| September 8, 2013 4:30 PM | National Gallery of Art [Premiere] My piece Summer-Night Songs will be performed by Pictures on Silence. This features the premiere of a new silent film especially created by Chicago-based filmmaker Nick Ferrario to accompany the piece. |
Washington, DC |
| August 31, 2013 3:00 PM | Smithsonian American Art Museum McEvoy Auditorium [New Music for Silent Film] WINGS (dir. William Wellman, 1927) Starring Clara Bow and Gary Cooper, this film won the first Academy Award for Best Picture |
Washington, DC |
| August 4, 2013 4:30 PM | National Gallery of Art [New Music for Silent Film] THE PLEASURE GARDEN (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1925) Another of the "Hitchcock 9," series, a presentation of the surviving nine of Hitchcock's ten silent films in DC in July and August. |
Washington, DC |
| August 3, 2013 5:00 PM | AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film] THE FARMER'S WIFE (dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1928) One of the "Hitchcock 9," series, a presentation of the surviving nine of Hitchcock's ten silent films in DC in July and August. |
Silver Spring, MD |
| June 27-30, 2013 5:00 PM | Slapsticon 2013 This important four-day film festival returns after a years' hiatus at my alma mater, Indiana University Bloomington |
Bloomington, IN |
| June 6-8, 2013 5:00 PM | Library of Congress Packard Campus [New Music for Silent Film] Mostly Lost, Library of Congress symposium featuring screenings of unidentified films and public screenings of featured silents with live accompaniment |
Culpeper, VA |
| May 19, 2013 3:00 PM | Smithsonian American Art Museum, McEvoy Auditorium [New Music for Silent Film] The Wind (Victor Seastrom, 1928) I will present the piano version of my 2012 choral/instrumental score for this powerful drama starring Lillian Gish. The score premiered at AFI Silver Theater in summer 2012 with Cantate Chamber Singers, to critical acclaim |
Washington, DC |
| May 17, 2013 7:30 PM | Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theater [New Music for Silent Film] SHOULDER ARMS (Charles Chaplin, 1918) A WW I comedy featuring Chaplin as soldier, going from boot-camp private to war hero. |
Washington, DC |
| April 27, 2013 7:30 PM | St. John's Norwood Episcopal Church Cantate Chamber Singers: "Of Saints and Royals" Music of Purcell and Britten (the beginning of Cantate's year-long celebration of the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth) |
Bethesda, MD |
| April 22-23, 2013 7:30 PM | UT Texas-Tyler Guest composer and lecturer |
Tyler, TX |
| April 20, 2013 1:00 PM | AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film] SPARROWS (William Beaudine, 1926, starring Mary Pickford) |
Silver Spring, MD |
| April 14, 2013 6:30 PM | National Gallery of Art National Gallery of Art Vocal Ensemble. Includes "O Mistress Mine" (madrigal) |
Silver Spring, MD |
| April 10, 2013 4:00 PM | National Gallery of Art National Gallery of Art Vocal Ensemble. Includes "O Mistress Mine" (madrigal) |
Washington, DC |
| April 7, 2013 12:10 PM | National Gallery of Art [New Music for Silent Film] TRAFFIC IN SOULS (George Loane Tucker, 1913) WHERE ARE MY CHILDREN? (Lois Weber, 1916) |
Washington, DC |
| March 23, 2013 1:30 PM | AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film] A GIRL IN EVERY PORT (Howard Hawks, 1928, starring Louise Brooks) |
Silver Spring, MD |
| March 14-17, 2013 | Cinefest 33 I return to Syracuse this year as one of the accompanists for this important and long-running festival of silent and early sound films |
Syracuse, NY |
| March 9, 2013 1:30 PM | AFI Silver Theater [New Music for Silent Film] THE FIRST BORN (Miles Mander, 1928) |
Silver Spring, MD |
| February 23, 2013 7:30 PM | St. John's Norwood Episcopal Church Cantate Chamber Singers: "Lessons Learned" A diverse, fascinating program of music by compositional mentors and students: Monteverdi, Schutz; (Arnold Mendelssohn), Hindemith; Bruckner, Mahler, and more |
Bethesda, MD |
| February 21, 2013 5:30 PM | Tawes Recital Hall, University of Maryland [New Music for Silent Film] AU BONHEUR DES DAMES (Julien Duvivier, 1930) Organized by the Graduate Committee for Film Studies |
College Park, MD |
| February 16, 2013 2:00 PM | National Gallery of Art [New Music for Silent Film] 16 New music for silent film: Thomas Ince films. ONE A MINUTE (Jack Nelson, 1919), a comedy about the 1920s version of the big chain stores competing with Mom-and-Pops stors, preceded by O MIMI SAN (Charles Miller, 1914) |
Washington, DC |
| February 16, 2013 2:00 PM | National Gallery of Art [New Music for Silent Film] 16 New music for silent film: Thomas Ince films. ONE A MINUTE (Jack Nelson, 1919), a comedy about the 1920s version of the big chain stores competing with Mom-and-Pops stors, preceded by O MIMI SAN (Charles Miller, 1914) |
Washington, DC |
| February 1, 2013 8:00 PM | ATLAS Performing Arts Center [Premiere] Orpheus and the Secret Road, a myth in theater and music for soprano saxophone, harp, and electronics. My interest in the linking of theater and music - as well as Greco-Roman antiquity - continues with this new 45-minute work based on the Greek myth of Orpheus, featuring text, movement, singing, and some virtuosic playing by Pictures on Silence (Noah Getz, saxophone, Jacqueline Pollauf, harp) |
Washington, DC |
| January 26, 2013 7:30 PM | Library of Congress Packard Campus [New Music for Silent Film] Mary Pickford stars in DOROTHY VERNON OF HADDON HALL (Marshall Neilan, 1924) |
Culpeper, VA |
| January 25, 2013 7:30 PM | Library of Congress Packard Campus [New Music for Silent Film] Mary Pickford short subjects |
Culpeper, VA |
| January 19, 2013 4:00 PM | National Gallery of Art [New Music for Silent Film] MALDONE (Jean Gremillon, 1927) and CHARTRES (Jean Gremillon, 1923) |
Washington, DC |
| January 13, 2013 3:30 PM | Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center [Premiere] Vistas of Rome, for cello and piano. Jason Love, cello; Li-Ly Chang, piano |
College Park, MD |
2012
| August 5, 2012 4:30 PM | National Gallery of Art [New Music for Silent Film] THE SPANISH DANCER (Herbert Brenon, 1923) followed by SHOES (Lois Weber, 1916) |
Washington, DC |
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| July 13-28, 2012 | 2012 Capital Fringe Festival The Outcasts of Poker Flat Chamber opera in one act. Mount Vernon United Methodist Church. |
Washington, DC |
| June 9, 2012 3:00 PM | AFI Silver Theatre [Premiere] New choral and instrumental score for THE WIND (1928 film starring Lillian Gish) This score, commissioned by the Cantate Chamber Singers (Gisele Becker, Music Director) as composer in residence, is written for Cantate’s 32-voice chorus joined by a 9-piece insrtumental ensemble, including the AFI Silver’s Allen theater organ. Co-presented by Cantate and the American Film Institute. |
Silver Spring, MD |
| May 24, 2012 7:30 PM | Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theatre [New Music for Silent Film] THE LOST WORLD (dir. Harry O. Hoyt, 1925) |
Culpeper, VA |
| May 12, 2012 7:30 PM | Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theatre [New Music for Silent Film] MANTRAP (starring Clara Bow) |
Culpeper, VA |
| May 11, 2012 7:00 PM | Atlas Performing Arts Center [Premiere] Great Noise Ensemble presents the premiere of my Double Concerto, for violin and guitar. Andrea Vercoe, violin; Max Zuckerman, guitar; David Vickerman, conductor. |
Washington, DC |
| April 21, 2012 5:00 PM | AFI Silver Theatre [New Music for Silent Film] SUNRISE (F.W. Murnau, 1927) |
Silve Spring, MD |
| April 10-14, 2012 | Museum of the Moving Image [New Music for Silent Film] Orphans 8 Film Symposium |
Astoria, NY |
| March 31, 2012 7:30 PM | St. John's Norwood Episcopal Church Cantate Chamber Singers presents "GREAT MINDS," music by Friedrich Nietzsche (yes, the philosopher!), Dallapiccola, Holst, Gavin Bryars, Eric Whitacre, and the winner of the Cantate Young Composers Competition. I am performing a Nietzsche piano work and conducting Eric Whitacre's Leonardo Dreams of his Flying Machine. |
Bethesda, MD |
| March 29, 2012 | Stella Adler Studio [Premiere] Enhanced multimedia version of Summer-Night Songs With Pictures on Silence |
New York, NY |
| March 24, 2012 7:30 PM | Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theatre [New Music for Silent Film] WOMANHANDLED (Gregory La Cava, 1925) |
Culpeper, VA |
| March 15-18, 2012 | Cinefest 32 I return for my second year as an accompanist for the nationally-renowned film festival. |
Syracuse, NY |
| March 10, 2012 7:30 PM | Library of Congress Mt. Pony Theatre [New Music for Silent Film] THE PATSY (King Vidor, 1928) |
Culpeper, VA |
| February 12, 2012 3:00 PM | Songs of Old CUA: A Musical Revue Special event for Catholic University’s 125th anniversary. Co-organized with Maurice Saylor, in collaboration with the divisions of Musical Theater, Wind Ensemble, and CUA faculty and students. Pryzbyla Center Great Room |
Washington, DC |
| January 18, 2012 | Cosmos Club [New Music for Silent Film] The Snark Ensemble presents Music for films with Laurel and Hardy, Charley Chase, and Harry Langdon |
Washington, DC |
| January 14, 2012 2:30 PM | National Gallery of Art [New Music for Silent Film] Cine-Concert: Robin Hood and Alias Jimmy Valentine, new piano scores for silent film |
Washington, DC |