PI Francesco Finocchiaro presented the FMJ Poster at the Annual Conference of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives, and Documentation Centres, Leipzig, July 22–27, 2017.
FMJ Poster at IAML Leipzig 2018
Category: Activities
7th Heaven at Il Cinema Ritrovato 2018
Frank Borzage’s 7th Heaven (1927), restored by 20th Century Fox and MoMA, was one of the most exciting events at the Festival “Il Cinema ritrovato” 2018. The Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna performed a new film score written by Timothy Brock.
Francesco Finocchiaro, Seventh Heaven ovvero Il capolavoro ritrovato, “Amadeus”, July 2, 2018
Rosita or The found music
Restored in 2017 by the MoMA of New York, Ernst Lubitsch’s film Rosita has been recently presented at the XXXII edition of “Il Cinema Ritrovato”, in Bologna, in a musical reconstruction edited by Gillian Anderson and performed by the Mitteleuropa Orchestra. The American composer and musicologist reconstructed Rosita‘s score on the basis of a 1923 cue sheet, drawn from the accompanying music by Louis Ferdinand Gottschalk.
Francesco Finocchiaro, Il Cinema ritrovato: Rosita di Ernst Lubitsch recupera le sue musiche, “Amadeus”, June 29, 2018
Il cinema ritrovato 2018
Interviewing Gillian Anderson and Timothy Brock upon their new silent film scores for Rosita (1923) and 7th Heaven (1927). See the full video on Amadeus Online.
Festival Il cinema ritrovato 2018, June 23 – July 1, 2018, Bologna
Semsterfrüchte 2018
At the Musicological Department’s “Semesterfrüchte 2018”, Elena Minetti performed film music pieces drawn from John S. Zamecnik’s Sam Fox Moving Picture Music (1913-14).
Silent Film Music in the Mirror of Criticism
At the Open Day of the University of Vienna’s Department of Musicology, Francesco Finocchiaro and Henriette Engelke talked about silent film music, dwelling on music literature for cinematic use, performative practices, and critical reception. The pianist Elena Minetti played rare mood music pieces drawn from the Sam Fox Moving Picture Music (1913-14) by John S. Zamecnik.
Eine laute Revolution
“Greta spricht!” – In den 1930er Jahren revolutionierte der Tonfilm das Kino. Doch was bedeutete dieser Umbruch für die Filmmusik? Musikwissenschafter Francesco Finocchiaro sucht im journalistischen Diskurs der Stummfilm-Ära nach Antworten und macht seine Funde digital zugänglich.
Hanna Möller’s article on the FMJ Proejct is now available on Uni:View Magazin.
