The Egyptian Theater 6712 Hollywood Blvd. Dec. 22 Music High Alert Afroman lights up on life in Mississippi, just sayin' no and, uh, airport security. Freek Show Freek Show Step right up to Jim Freek's Los Angeles. But for Israel, immersion is the name of the film-music game, and a score succeeds when sound and image fuse into a single experience. The mission is to serve the film in the best possible way.
Silent film is a whole different realm.
These images are very fragile. But technological necessity soon paid aesthetic dividends, as directors and exhibitors noticed that music smoothed choppy editing, heightened emotional effects, and most importantly, acclimated audiences to the bizarre new parade of silvery figures across the screen. Then we'd show it in a theater, with a girl pounding away at a piano, and there would be all the difference in the world. Without that music there wouldn't have been a film industry at all. Elsewhere in the country, organists Christian Elliot and Dennis James and such chamber ensembles as the Alloy Orchestra and San Francisco's irreverent Club Foot Orchestra keep some form of the tradition alive.