Modern Times Ensemble: Film Screening & Collaborative Score Performance

Become the musician the world needs you to be…because the world needs music now more than ever. At Longy, we’re constantly rethinking conservatory education and expanding the world’s understanding of what a life in music can mean. We prepare you to engage new audiences, teach anyone, anywhere – and make a difference with your music.At Longy, it’s all about “more”Your potential countsWhether you found music at age 2 or 22, there’s a place for you at Longy. Here, all lived experiences and skills are welcome and all kinds of musicians succeed. We invest in musicians who will make a difference in the world by pledging to remove barriers for their conservatory education. For example, when we award scholarships, we’re looking to the breadth of your potential to contribute, both artistically and personally.Your music mattersWhether you’re passionate about music or social change – or both – Longy is the place where you can turn your enthusiasm into action. We’ll help you explore, define and amplify your talent and discover new ways to change lives and impact communities through music.Study what’s important to youThere’s no one way to be a musician. At Longy, you’ll uncover and explore new ways to make a living in music. Our innovative Catalyst Curriculum is customized to focus on the skills, knowledge and experience you’ll need to create change in the world. You choose the training you need for the career paths you want to explore.Start your career nowFrom your first days at Longy you’ll become a Boston musician, performing professionally with our faculty and artistic partners around the city. Get hands‐on, real‐world experience while you build your network with an extensive community of musicians and organizations.  Boston isn’t merely a backdrop—it’s the stage for your artistic pursuits and an integral part of the Longy experience. Be immersed in a vibrant, artistic city with hundreds of new ensembles, opera companies, theaters, orchestras, dance troupes and museums for you to enjoy.You belong at LongyBe part of our community of musicians who root for each other and cheer on each other’s successes. Study in a musical home—literally, a historic mansion—where “collaborative” describes not only our performances, but the way we live and learn together.

Longy School of Music of Bard College

<p>Sidewalk Stories is a 1989 American independent film directed by and starring Charles Lane. The black-and-white, nearly silent, film tells the story of a young African American man raising a small child after she is separated from her mother and her father is murdered. The film is a post-modern homage to Charlie Chaplin&#x27;s 1921 feature The Kid. In October 2014, Sidewalk Stories was released on DVD, and has since, garnered more attention at film festivals around the world for being a ground breaking independent film that utilizes older film constructs and techniques in updated ways to address the long standing issue of homelessness in America. The Modern Times Ensemble, in the tradition of the Alloy Orchestra and others, have reimagined the sonic landscape for this film with an entirely new composed and improvised film score. The new collaborative work explores the loneliness of urban homelessness and loss through a combination of stark electro-acoustic ambient settings and character driven melodies and grooves that move effortlessly through styles from jazz, rock, classical and more. Large sections of the score are open for improvisation which gives an urgency to the music as the players interact with the film action and each other in real time.  </p>

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