Music of Remembrance: 'The City Without Jews' screening w/ new live score

Mikhail Shmidt, violin
Susan Gulkis Assadi, viola
Walter Gray, cello
Jonathan Green, double bass
Laura DeLuca, clarinet
Jessica Choe, piano
Guenter Buchwald, conductor/performer

As part of its popular Silent Movie Mondays series, Seattle Theater Group will present a special screening of Die Stadt ohne Juden ("The City Without Jews"), a recently-remastered 1924 silent film based on a dystopian novel anticipating the rise of Nazism.

Directed by H.K. Breslauer, the film is based on the dystopian novel of the same title by author Hugo Bettauer. This Austrian Expressionist film predicted the rise of Nazism, with Jews attacked and forced to leave their homes. Shortly after the premiere of the film in 1924, the author was murdered by a member of the Nazi Party. The film was believed to have been lost for decades. After being rediscovered in a Paris flea market in 2015, it has now been restored and returned to the cinema screen.

MOR's instrumental ensemble will be there to perform the striking new musical score commissioned from composer Guenter Buchwald, who will also join the MOR ensemble as conductor and performer.

Buchwald, one of the world’s leading advocates of music for the silent cinema, led MOR’s 2008 and 2015 screening of The Golem with Betty Olivero’s klezmer-like film score.

It’s an evening not to be missed.

Running time: 90 minutes. Seating is general admission. All ages. Bar with ID. Doors open at 6:00pm; show begins at 7pm.

About Music of Remembrance

https://www.musicofremembrance.org/