Nature on Film: Early 20th Century Documentaries with Live Soundtracks

Wed 21 Feb 2024 / 8pm / RNCM Concert Hall
Nature on Film: Early 20th Century Documentaries with Live Soundtracks

Enjoy live screenings of early cinema’s most enduring nature films as our students compose and perform brand new works to accompany them. From mesmerizing time-lapse photography to ‘talkies’ that narrate stories about nature’s life cycles, this fascinating evening fuses students’ musical responses to the stories of nature that unfold before them.

Patrick Gorry New score for F Percy Smith’s The Birth of a Flower (1910)
Cecilia Dana New score for F Percy Smith’s The Strength and Agility of Insects (1911)
Joe Hunt New score for F Percy Smith’s Floral Co-operative Societies (1927)
Manon McCoy New score for Jean Painlevé’s The Seahorse (1934)