Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra returns to provide live musical accompaniment for back-to-back evenings of films dedicated to the comedic giants of Hollywood’s silent era.

An Evening of Silent Comedy Shorts

Including Charlie Chaplin in “The Rink” (1916, 24 min), Charley Chase in “Mighty Like a Moose” (1926, 25 min), Laurel & Hardy in “Wrong Again” (1929, 20 min) and Buster Keaton in “The Scarecrow” (1920, 19 min).

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.” — The New York Times

Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra 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. Their most recent release is “Entreaty,” a CD of silent film compositions for romantic scenes.