At the Musicological Department’s “Semesterfrüchte 2019”, Marlene Penninger, Marie Huber, and Chiara Schmidt performed “Notturno amoroso”, a film music piece drawn from Giuseppe Becce’s Kinothek (1919-26).
Category: Activities
The Singing City
On November-December 2018, the Austrian Filmmuseum dedicated a film retrospective to Elvira Notari (1875–1946), the Neapolitan film pioneer of the early silent era. Italian folk music stars Lucilla Galeazzi, Dolore Melodia, and Michele Signore contributed to outstanding live musical accompaniments for the films ‘ A Santanotte (1922), È piccerella (1922), Fantasia ‘e surdato (1926), as well as Roberto Roberti’s masterpiece Napoli che canta (1926).
Erasmus+ at the Rovigo Conservatory
From the 1st to 13th of October 2018, Dr. Francesco Finocchiaro exposed the FMJ research findings in the form of an Erasmus Teaching Mobility for students in composition at the “F. Venezze” Conservatory Rovigo.
FMJ Poster at IAML Leipzig 2018
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.
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). Festival Il cinema ritrovato 2018, June 23 – July 1, 2018, Bologna
