#2387: Phantom of the Opera

New Sounds | May 24, 2010
From the New Sounds Live/Silent Film series at the World Financial Center, The Clubfoot Orchestra plays a new score by Richard Marriott for the Lon Chaney silent film “Phantom of the Opera.” Lon Chaney’s phantom is the quintessential horror film demon – both touching and terrifying, while Marriott's music underlies the mysterious phantom who is mad with love for Christine.

PROGRAM #2387, Clubfoot/Phantom of the Opera (First aired on March 15, 2005)

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Clubfoot Orchestra New Sounds Live, World Financial Center Winter Garden, 1/21/05 Phantom of the Opera, excerpts [45:00] This performance not commercially available. For info on Clubfoot's CDs and video of silent films with new music, go to www.clubfoot.com

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