Next Events: Mont Alto will be playing a tea dance in Boulder on Mother's Day, May 13th, then we kick off the Chautuauqua Silent Film Festival on June 13th. See our Schedule page.

Here's some material on Phyllis Haver.

Our next project is an amazing seven-hour crime serial from France, Les Vampires, which will be released on DVD and Blu-Ray from Kino later this spring. Here's an excerpt from our score, Danse Exotique (movement 3 from "At the Bal Masqué") by the American composer Wilson G. Smith.

Here are two excerpts from our new score to Huckleberry Finn, which played on the Turner Classic Movies channel on December 14:

• Sea Song by Christopher O'Hare. The opening title music foretells the broad, epic nature of Huck and Jim's voyage down the Mississippi.
• Serenade Norvegienne, by Gustave Sandre. A comic piece that's used several times through the score.

Another recent recording project for Kino Video was Strike, the debut feature from Sergei Eisenstein. Here are two excerpts from the score:

• Hungarian Dance, by A. Glazunow, for a scene featuring a picnic with a man playing accordion
• Gitanella, by P. Lacome, an orchestral work with a bit of gypsy flair.

Our new CD, Passion, Betrayal, and Redemption, is now shipping! See details on our Recordings page.

Mont Alto's private reserve DVD of The Mark of Zorro, has received some great reviews! Details and sample audio files on our Recordings page. Read original reviews at DigitallyObsessed and at DVDTalk.com. Also available, our DVD of Buster Keaton's The General.

        

• Dave Kehr of the New York Times says our scores "...are often breathtakingly beautiful and always in the strict service of the film on the screen." More complete reviews on our Reviews page.
• Mont Alto's second limited edition t-shirt, Caravan, featuring Douglas Fairbanks in a scene from The Thief of Bagdad, is now available.
• DVDTalk has reviewed our new personal DVD release of Buster Keaton's The General -- "The new soundtrack by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra is wonderful to listen to and fits the movie very well. It's the best available score for this film which makes it easy to Highly Recommend this disc." For details and purchases, see The General on our Recordings page.
• Rodney's interview with Dan Lybarger about Bed and Sofa.

Click here to email Rodney Sauer about the Mont Alto orchestra: rodney@mont-alto.com.