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Includes DB part and PNO part
In his notes, the composer comments:
"I've often wished that silent movies with live music hadn't become obsolete by the time I started to go to the movies. I've imagined how much fun it would be to improvise music while the action unfolded on the screen with its tense and tender moments. So this piece expresses a nostalgia for something I've never experienced. Its intent is not to satirize, even though some passages suggest a smile.
"In a way, this piece is the reverse of a silent movie, since the music is supplied, but the visual image is missing."
Silent Movie was first performed with strings and harp by Gary Karr with I Musici de Montreal, conducted by Yuli Turovsky, in Montreal on September 5, l985. Ramsier revised the work in l995 for performance by Mark Alison Morton at the International Society of Bassists Convention at Indiana University. The recording by Morton incorporates that revision, in its version for solo double bass and piano.
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