The Goddess + Lotus Blossom

Saturday, January 21, 2006
8:00 PM

The world premiere of two new film scores by Leni Stern and Brandon Ross

Flushing Town Hall
137-35 Northern Boulevard, Flushing New York

(718) 463-7700

http://www.flushingtownhall.org

Tickets: $20

Guitarist/composer Leni Stern (whom The New Yorker described as “Fleet and Lyrical” and LA Weekly classified “one of the world’s most fully realized songwriters and guitarists”) performs live music to accompany a screening of the 1934 silent film The Goddess. Written/directed by Yonggang Wu, the film stars legendary actress Ruan Lingyu, who plays a single mother whose only hope for supporting her son is to submit to a life of prostitution. Also on the bill, guitarist Brandon Ross, and bassist Stomu Takeishi, will perform music to  accompany the surviving reel of “Lotus Blossom” from 1921.

www.lenistern.com