Secrets behind the score

One of the highlights of our 25th Anniversary Season was bringing the Alloy Orchestra to Columbus to perform their live score for Buster Keaton's The General. Called "the best in the world at accompanying silent film" by Roger Ebert, this musical murderers' row of talent (percussionist Terry Donahue, director Ken Winokur, and keyboardist Roger C. Miller) deliver a potent melding of music and image that have made them a beloved fixture of film festivals and repertory screenings around the globe. So you can guess we're pretty excited for their Monday return to provide a live score for Dziga Vertov's landmark documentary Man with A Movie Camera. This staple of "best of cinema" lists was just pegged best documentary and the eighth greatest film in cinema history in recent polls by Sight & Sound  and delivers a barrage of staggeringly complex camera tricks, effects, and editing strategies that play as fresh and future-thinking as they did upon its 1929 release.

Winokur recently revealed a peek behind the curtain and offered Columbus Monthly magazine insights on how the group arranged and created the live score for the 1929 masterpiece. Read up here, and then snag your tickets to what will surely be an unforgettable night of film and music.