MONT ALTO MOTION PICTURE ORCHESTRA
Nosferatu (1922) | NR

Celebrate the 100th anniversary of F.W. Murnau’s silent film classic with live musical accompaniment by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra. This unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, features not Dracula but Count Orlok, a nightmarish, spidery creature of bulbous head and taloned claws – perhaps the most genuinely disturbing incarnation of vampirism yet envisioned.

$18 General Admission, $15 Students & Seniors, $12 Museum Members

The Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra is a five-piece chamber ensemble that revives the repertoire of silent film orchestras. Using historic libraries of music, and selecting and fitting a piece of music for each scene in the film, Mont Alto compiles vibrant and emotional scores using the original techniques of silent film orchestras. “The results are often breathtakingly beautiful and always in the strict service of the film on the screen.” (Dave Kehr, The New York Times.)

Mont Alto was formed in Colorado in 1989, and has scored over 125 silent films, recording over 40 film scores for releases on DVD, Blu-Ray, and for showings on Turner Classic Movies. The Mont Alto Orchestra appears regularly at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, the Telluride Film Festival, the TCM Classic Film Festival, the Denver Silent Film Festival, the Chautauqua Auditorium film series, and the Kansas Silent Film Festival. They have toured the country from Films at Lincoln Center in New York to Grauman’s Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. Mont Alto’s library includes over six thousand orchestrations photocopied from the surviving collections of six silent film theater music directors and theater chains. Mont Alto records scores for VHS and DVD releases of silent films in collaboration with Flicker Alley, Film Preservation Associates, Lobster Films, Kino-Lorber, the Criterion Collection, the Cohen Collection, Timeline Films, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, and Milestone Video. These have been very well received, and are considered some of the finest modern recorded silent film scores.

$18 General Admission, $15 Students & Seniors, $12 Museum Members

Thursday Nights at the Museum

The Longmont Museum is open on Thursday evenings until 9 pm. In addition to visiting our new exhibit, Tipi to Tiny House: Hands-on Homebuilding, you could take an Art & Sip class or attend a film, performance or talk. View upcoming programs at Thursday Night at the Museum.