Cellist and composer Lori Goldston, with shakuhachi player Philip Gelb and percussionist Greg Campbell , has been commissioned by WNYC’s New Sounds Live to compose and perform a live score for Yasujiro Ozu’s silent film “Passing Fancy.” It will premiere at the World Financial Center Winter Garden in New York on Wednesday, February 10, 2010.
Goldston draws on years of wide-ranging musical experiences and preoccupations, and performances and/or recordings with Nirvana, David Byrne, Earth, Ellen Fullman, Mirah, Threnody Ensemble and Cat Power, and work with traditional Japanese, Turkish, Brazilian Chinese and experimental orchestras and chamber groups.
Her bands, the Black Cat Orchestra and Spectratone International explore and revisit songs and ideas from Europe, Asia and Latin America; their sound is full, subtle and meticulously rendered, moving easily among a wide broad spectrum of influences, including psychedelia, folk and early music.
Ozu was a veteran director when he made his subtle, exquisite silent film “Passing Fancy” in 1933, and had already begun to develop his signature quirky narrative and technical style. Set in a ratty neighborhood in Tokyo, it is about a boy, his single father, and their network of friends and neighbors. It is considered by many critics to be one of his masterpieces.
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