Silent Movie Concert “Seven Chances”
28 January @ 14:30 - 16:30

Wed. 28.1.26 14.30
Weißhaus-Cinema
Cologne
Luxemburger Str. 253
Info
Short and Sweet:
The unsuccessful businessman Jimmie Shannon (B. Keaton) is on the verge of bankruptcy when he learns that he is to inherit seven million dollars from his deceased grandfather — but only if he is married by 7 o’clock that same evening! This is quite a challenge for the notoriously shy Jimmie…
About the Music:
The music is structurally based on the dramaturgical approaches of silent-film music, and in part uses themes from cinema music libraries of the 1920s, but is for the most part a new composition. The music will sound the way it might have in a cinema in 1925 — it is intended to bring the qualities of the film to life musically, closely aligned with the original, giving acoustic life to the silent performance.