Friday, October 13, 2023

Salomé Dance Scene

I wrote a new piece for clarinet, violin, cello, and piano that is part of a UK-based film and dance project where composers write new music for old films, and then live dancers perform the sequences accompanied by live musicians. This five-minute-long sequence is set to a section of the 1918 Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton film The Cook. It is a parody of a dance scene from the (now lost) Theda Bara film Salomé.

You can watch the film clip from The Cook with this music here, and you can find the score and parts on this on this page of the IMSLP.
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Stephanie Cooper said...

The music you composed for this clip brilliantly captures and accentuates the absorbing, gradually building, strangeness and hilarity of the dance sequence. I also loved your ending!

4/11/23 6:49 PM

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