Berklee Silent Film Orchestra - Varieté: Making Of The Score

The Berklee Silent Film Orchestra wrote a new score for the Kino Classics DVD release of Varieté, one of the crowning achievements of German silent cinema, directed by E.A. Dupont and starring Emil Jannings and Lya de Putti.
Music by
The Berklee Silent Film Orchestra
Sheldon Mirowitz, Artistic Director
Composers
Sheldon Mirowitz (USA)
Mateo Rodo (Argentina)
Larry Hong (USA)
Austin Matthews (USA)
Hyunju Yun (Korea)
Kanako Hashiyama (Japan)
Nathan Drube (USA)
The Berklee Silent Film Orchestra:
Flute/Piccolo/Alto Flute - Luisa Cartagena (Puerto Rico)
Oboe/English Horn - Elif Cakmut (Turkey)/Andrew Van Der Paart (USA)
Clarinet/Bass Clarinet - Stephanie Clark (USA)/Chuck Furlong (USA)
Horn - Shachar Ziv (Israel)
Trumpet - Josh Shpak (USA)/Andrew Koskela (USA)
Trombone/Bass Trombone - Robert Hoveland (USA)
Keyboard 1 - Victoria Ruggiero (USA)/Kino Lee (Taiwan)
Keyboard 2 - Eren Başbuğ (Turkey)
Percussion - Grace Herzog (USA)
Violin - Tania Mesa (Spain)
Cello - Nathaniel Taylor (USA)/Naseem Alatrash (Palestine)
Bass - Michael Simon (USA)
Score recorded May 16-18, 2016 at the Shames Scoring Stage at Berklee College of Music, Boston MA
Fred Mueller - engineer
Score edited and mixed by Sheldon Mirowitz at Verité Music, Sherborn, MA
Score rehearsed and premiered with support of the Sounds of Silents® program at the Coolidge Corner Theatre, in Brookline, Massachusetts.
For the Berklee Silent Film Orchestra:
Artistic Director - Sheldon Mirowitz
Managing Director - Rob Hayes
Intern - Hyunsoo Nam
Still photography, 2016 San Francisco Silent Film Festival:
Pamela Gentile and Tommy Lau
Video Production:
Produced by Mike Keefe-Feldman
Interview videographer: Sam Harchik
Editor: Jeannie Greeley
Recording session videographers: Kevin Greene and Joe Barnard
Audio post production: Andres Gutierrez
Production assistant: Isak Kotecki
Special Thanks to:
Anita Monga and Stacey Wisnia at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Alison Plante, Chair, Film Scoring, Berklee College of Music
George Monseur, Professor, Conducting, Berklee College of Music
Tom Riley, Vice President for External Affairs, Berklee College of Music
Roger Brown, President, Berklee College of Music
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