Reblogged from Not So Silent Movies...:
Jarvis Cocker and Oscar-winning composer Dario Marianelli join cellist Philip Sheppard
to launch third season of all-star improvisation to silent comedy classics
When it comes to creating split-second comic mayhem, cellist-composer Philip Sheppard takes his inspiration from such masters of the silent screen as Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton. In the old movie houses a lone pianistimprovised along to the on-screen antics; but once a month at King’s Place concert hall it’s what Sheppard calls “Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Press release for Not So Silent Movies...