Silent Films/Live Guitars

Tuesday, January 21, 2014
7:30 PM

Marc Ribot + Chris Eldridge PREMIERE SCORES TO CLASSIC SILENT FILMS

Merkin Concert Hall
Kaufman Music Center 129 West 67th Street (between Broadway and Amsterdam)

(212) 501-3330

http://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/event/new-york-guitar-festival-silent-films-live-guitars

Tickets: $25 (students $!5)

“ Marc Ribot did such a fabulous job with Chaplin's classic The Kid at the 2010 Festival,” NYGF Founder David Spelman remembers, “bringing out not just the humor, but the deep humanity of the film, that I knew we wanted to have him back, but this time with a film that might summon up an even wider emotional palette.” This season, Ribot returns with a new score for Joseph von Sternberg’s passionate 1928 drama The Docks of New York , which tells the New York waterfront story of a boiler room stoker’s romance with a suicidal dance-hall girl. Ribot has frequently collaborated with Tom Waits and John Zorn; his most recent band is the trio Ceramic Dog.

 For sheer contrast, bathing beauties and Keystone Kops abound in Fatty Arbuckle’s 1917 short comedy Coney Island , screened with a suitably raucous new score by Chris Eldridge of the progressive bluegrass band Punch Brothers.