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Masterpieces of silent cinema in the early twentieth century, with an orchestra playing at the foot of the screen, given in 2002 at the European Festival "Music and Cinema" of Kiev:

Carmen

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Germany, 1928

Music compilation by Armin Brunner (extracts from Bizet, Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Bach, etc.), for orchestra and piano

Figaro

Director: Gaston Ravel

France, 1928

Musical compilation by Jean-Marie Curti (extracts from Rossini's Barber of Seville and Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro), for orchestra and harpsichord

The City Without Jews

Director: Hans Karl Breslauer

Austria, 1924

Compilation and arrangements: Pierre Dubuisson and Artem Zoshchenko (extracts from Beethoven, Mahler, Haydn, Dukas, etc.), for orchestra

Moulin Rouge

Director: Ewald André Dupont

Britain, 1928

Original music by Mike Westbrook (1990), small jazz orchestra

The Phantom Carriage

Director: Victor Sjöström

Sweden, 1921

Original music by Matti Bye, for a small piano soloist

Faust

Director: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau

Germany, 1926

Musical compilation by Jean-Marie Curti (extracts from Berlioz, Schumann, Boito, Gounod), for orchestra

Rapsodia satanica

Director: Nino Oxilia

Italy, 1917

Music by Piero Mascagni, for great training

The Count & The Vagabond

U.S.A., 1916

Charlot and the Count, duration 24'. Given on music by Frédéric Bara: Déjeuner chez Tiffany's, Annie millionnaire d'un soir, Les oiseaux, Valse de Ragueneau.

Charlot musician, duration 19'. Given on the French componist Emmanuel Chabrier's music chosen Frédéric Bara: Excerpts from L'étoile, Bourrée fantastique, Idylle, Une éducation manquée, Gwendoline-Overture, Joyeuse marche, Le roi malgré lui.

Projection of autochromes of the Lumière brothers with orchestra

Director: Auguste & Louis Lumière

France, 1907 > 1932

Hymn to the Light (music: Petite Suite by Claude Debussy, Pastoral Suite by Emmanuel Chabrier, The Tomb of Couperin by Maurice Ravel) ;

Fashion in 1907 (with small brasserie costume orchestra: ballroom dancing, waltzes, tangos, quadrilles, javas, marches and polkas)

Evocation of the poet Frédéric Mistral and family life in Provence (texts in Provençal, music of Charles Gounod, Georges Bizet and Darius Milhaud)

"Variable geometry" and "thematic" programmes:

• ▪ Paris/Vienna/New York, for small symphony orchestra
• ▪ Metamorphosis, transcriptions and evocations of nature(music by Bach, Beethoven, Respighi and Prokofiev)
• ▪ Complete restoration, in the same places, of the concert performed on February 13, 1862 by the pianist Clara Schumann and the baritone Julius Stockhausen, friend of Clara, to the Dominicans of Haute-Alsace

Analysis of works, before a concert (school or evening), with extracts given by the orchestra:

• ▪ Variations on "Happy birthday to you" by J.M. Demoulin; orchestration by M. De Rudder; introduced and commented by Piet Steenackers
• ▪ Classical symphonies (Haydn, Mozart etc.) ;
• ▪ Romantic symphonies (Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Dvořák, Franck usw.) ;
• ▪ Modern symphonies (Prokofiev, Britten, Chostakovich usw.)
• ▪ Hors cadre: the public sings its concert accompanied by the orchestra: Christmas of all countries, Songs of the Belle Epoque and the Roaring Twenties, with accordion etc.