To set the mood for the Nitrate Picture Show, Andreas Benz will perform a 45-minute concert on George Eastman’s grand piano. Open to all Nitrate Picture Show passholders and museum visitors.
Benz is a musician and composer who teaches music at Elly-Heuss-Knapp-Gymnasium in Heilbronn (Germany). He also conducts a choir, a string orchestra, and a salon orchestra specializing in original dance band arrangements of music from the 1920s and 1930s. He regularly accompanies silent movies at the organ and the piano, often with his wife, Stefanie Benz, as projectionist, showing prints from his own collection. Andy will be playing selections from the nitrate film era, including silent film theme songs from the 1920s, as well as music from the swing era of the 1930s and 1940s.