How does a storm at sea sound? A villain's entrance? Tender, sentimental love? The silent-movie pianists at neighborhood theaters matched music to the action on the screen-sometimes without even having previewed the film. Abraham Lass fondly remembers and performs the repertoire he composed in the 1920s.
6 Out Into the Storm - Go and Darken My Door No More
7 An Eighteenth-Century Formal Ball
8 Tender, Sentimental Love
9 Enter the Villain
10 Sleep, My Child
11 Newsreel Shots
12 Rescued!!
13 Poignant Grief and Anguish
14 The Light Fantastic Toe
15 A Civil War Scene
16 Horses! Horses! Horses!
17 Far Away from Home
18 A Funeral Procession
19 The Gay '90's - the Gay Nineties
How does a storm at sea sound? A villain's entrance? Tender, sentimental love? The silent-movie pianists at neighborhood theaters matched music to the action on the screen-sometimes without even having previewed the film. Abraham Lass fondly remembers and performs the repertoire he composed in the 1920s.
