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PODCAST: Berklee Silent Film Orchestra
June 23, 2014

Student composers and orchestra musicians provide a new take on a silent classic, Harold Lloyd's Safety Last!

The classic 1923 romantic comedy Safety Last! features star Harold Lloyd famously hanging from a real clock over moving traffic as the camera rolled.

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Berklee Silent Film Orchestra Performs on Martha's Vineyard
June 11, 2014

The Berklee Silent Film Orchestra will perform an original score to the Harold Lloyd classic Safety Last! on Martha's Vineyard. 

The Making of a Silent Film Score
February 14, 2014

Students in Emerson College's Media Art MFA program captured the process of how the Berklee Silent Film Orchestra scored Harold Lloyd's Safety Last! for a New Year's Eve performance. 

Still shot from <i>Our Hospitality</i> (1923)

Image by Kino Lorber

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Silent Film Orchestra to Perform in Brookline and Nantucket
April 26, 2013

The Berklee Silent Film Orchestra Stages a Double Premiere of its new score to Buster Keaton's 1923 comic masterwork, Our Hospitality.

The Berklee Silent Film Orchestra performing Battleship Potemkin at the John F. Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts

Image by Henry Hayes

Boston Society of Film Critics Honors Berklee Silent Film Orchestra
February 1, 2013

The Boston Society of Film Critics will honor the Berklee Silent Film Orchestra at its annual awards ceremony on February 10.

PODCAST: Berklee Silent Film Orchestra
March 2, 2012

Several Berklee students composed sections of a new score for the classic silent film Battleship Potemkin. This podcast features a cue written by student Michael Oldham.

Sergei Eisenstein's <i>Battleship Potemkin</i> (1925)
with new original score, live on the Potomac, March 9.

Photo by Kino Lorber

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Potemkin on the Potomac: Berklee Silent Film Orchestra Performs in D.C.
February 29, 2012

Berklee's Silent Film Orchestra performs an original live-to-picture score to Battleship Potemkin.