"Mont Alto is the finest silent movie musical group around today."
--John Sinnott, dvdtalk.com
Let the Music do the Talking.
Next Events: Rodney Sauer plays for Four Funny Films on May 16 in Louisville Colorado. Mont Alto plays for The Kid Brother at Chautauqua on July 2. Details on our Schedule page.
Dave Kehr of the New York Times previewed Mont Alto's appearance at Films at Lincoln Center, saying our scores are "...are often breathtakingly beautiful and always in the strict service of the film on the screen." More complete reviews on our Reviews page.
Available from Flicker Alley: a vast compendium of early films by Georges Melies, several of which have scores by the Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra, including his longest film, The Conquest of the Pole.
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.
Here's a trailer in QuickTime format (note that this is low resolution for quick downloads, and does NOT represent the quality of the DVD). And listen to Pathetic Melody by Gaston Borch, a piece we use when Buster Keaton gets rejected by the army and his girlfriend.
Mont Alto's second limited edition t-shirt, Caravan, featuring Douglas Fairbanks in a scene from The Thief of Bagdad, is now available.