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Tõnu Kõrvits’s music for silent film will be performed once again in France


Tõnu Kõrvits
Photo: Kaupo Kikkas

 
On February 24, Tõnu Kõrvits’s music for silent feature film La Passion selon Jeanne d’Arc, directed by Danish film director Carl Theodor Dreyer in 1928, will be once again performed in France. Music premiered in 2009 by Ensemble de Basse-Normandie will be performed this time by Orchestre Lyrique de Région Avignon Provence in Avignon, at Cinéma Le Capitole. Conductor is Sébastien Billard.

Dreyer is regarded by many critics and filmmakers as one of the greatest directors in cinema, La Passion selon Jeanne d’Arc was his first classical film. Although Dreyer intended the film to be watched in complete silence with no musical accompaniment, several scores have been composed later. In addition to Kõrvits, also Lithuanian composer Bronius Kutavičius has written music for that film in 2009.

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