Silent Movie Concert “Seven Chances”

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.

Further Information about: Seven Chances