Live Music for Silent Classics

Have you ever wondered what it would have been like to sit in a movie theater 120 years go? The six-piece ensemble collectively known as “Silent But Deadly” will return to the 2024 Connecting Chords Music Festival to perform original soundtracks to silent films shown at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum on Saturday, October 5.

There will be two performances – 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Admission is free to the public, tickets will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. Donations to the Kalamazoo Valley Museum and Connecting Chords Music Festival will be accepted on site.

The performances will include a mix of original and compiled film scores created specially for four period silent shorts. The audience will be pulled into the world of Charles Ogle, Fatty Arbuckle, and Charlie Chaplin, in films produced between 1902 and 1914: A Christmas Carol (1910), Tango Tangles (1914), Jack and the Beanstalk (1902), and Frankenstein (1910).

Join us for a trip back in time before sound films or theater organs. Back when small orchestras brought music and sound effects to the films, while the audience actively cheered the heroes and booed the villains. And yes, active audience participation will not only be encouraged but expected!

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Running September 7 – December 1, 2024, the Connecting Chords Music Festival celebrates the unifying power of the world’s music. Presenting a diverse array of artists, genres and venues each year, the Festival hopes to promote community harmony, mutual understanding and respect among persons of different backgrounds.