Screening of Salomé With Live Music
Charles Bryant’s 1923 silent film version of Oscar Wilde’s Salomé, starring Nazimova, will be screened at the Riverbank Arts Centre in Newbridge, County Kildare, on 8 March at 8pm.
The screening will be accompanied with a live performance of Charlie Barber’s specially written score, which will feature four percussionists performing Arabic-inspired music from ‘two giant alloy towers’ placed on either side of the film screen (see image above). The production originally debuted to acclaim in 2009. Barber is currently composing a score to accompany Epstein’s 1928 film of The Fall of the House of Usher, to be performed by the National Youth Wind Orchestra of Wales in April 2012.
Tickets are €15 and €18, and can be purchased here.
Riverbank Arts Centre is supported by the Arts Council and Kildare County Council.
Salomé is a Sound Affairs production.
Published on 5 March 2012
Stephen Graham is a lecturer in music at Goldsmiths, University of London. He blogs at www.robotsdancingalone.wordpress.com.