Article: Sound of music for Sunday's silent stars
- by Iain Shedden — © News Limited
- Source: Source: The Australian, 3 June 2005, pp.19
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An early German film has been given a soundtrack, writes Iain Shedden
ELENA Kats-Chernin's music has resonated in many concert halls during her 25 years as a composer, but never as accompaniment to a silent film.
That will change in two weeks at the Sydney Film Festival, when her work for the landmark German silent feature Menschen am Sonntag (People on Sunday) (1930) is performed live at the State Theatre. It's a change of pace for the celebrated, Sydney-based composer, whose most recent success was Wild Swans, her collaboration ...
