Gary Lucas plays The Golem
Just to show that jazz and rock musicians can come up with effective scores for silent films, here’s another great favourite of mine, jazz/experimental guitarist Gary Lucas, accompanying Der Golem (1920), which tells of a rabbi in medieval Prague creating a clay monster to save the Jews of the ghetto from annihilation. The score is by Lucas and Walter Horn, and Lucas’ interest in Jewish themes clearly informs his intense reading in this five minute extract.
Find out more about the music and the screenings that have taken place from Lucas’ website, which includes further sound extracts.
September 23, 2007 at 2:48 am
[...] Sep 23rd, 2007 by left coast gang The Bioscope, by Luke McKernen, is a very cool and informed blog “dedicated to the subject of early and silent cinema.” Relevant to Gary Lucas’ long-time involvement with film, you’ll agree, if you’ve attended his recent performances to Sounds of the Surreal, The Golem, Rosemary’s Baby, or heard/seen, for example the You Tube video of Gary’s accompaniment to The Cameraman’s Revenge (Ladislaw Starewicz), or The Legacy of Jedwabne. McKernan writes about Gary’s “extraordinary accompaniment” here and here. [...]