ALLOY ORCHESTRA ACCOMPANIES FULLY RESTORED METROPOLIS

Saturday, October 30, 2010 | 8 PM
Advance tickets: $25/$20 for members
Day of show tickets: $35/$25 members

Hartford, Connecticut -The Alloy Orchestra will accompany the fully restored version of Metropolis, the Fritz Lang classic dystopian epic
at Real Art Ways on Saturday, October 30, 2010 at 8 PM. The
price for advance tickets is $25/$20 for Real Art Ways members.
Tickets on the day of the show are $35/$25 for Real Art Ways
members.

25 additional minutes of Metropolis footage, once thought forever lost, were discovered in Buenos Aires in 2008. Now newly restored, Metropolis is being screened in its complete form for the first time since its 1927 premiere in Berlin.

Roger Ebert calls the Alloy Orchestra "the best in the world at accompanying silent films." They have composed scores for nearly 30 silent films. The three-man ensemble, now in its twentieth year, works with an array of instruments and found objects.

The Alloy Orchestra is:
Terry Donahue (junk, accordion, musical saw, vocals)
Ken Winokur (director, junk percussion and clarinet)
Roger Miller (keyboards)

Also, in the Real Art Ways galleries, conceptual artist Olu Oguibe has installed a 46-foot long stonewall. Saya Woolfalk's Institute of Empathy invites visitors into another world to illuminate how culture develops. Cary Smith, best known for his geometric abstract paintings, debuts a new body of work entitled We Are the Dollars and Cents.

ABOUT THE ALLOY ORCHESTRA
The Alloy Orchestra is a three man musical ensemble that writes and performs live accompaniment to classic silent films. They have helped revive some of the great masterpieces of the silent era and have played at prestigious film festivals and cultural centers in the US and abroad (The Telluride Film Festival, The Louvre, Lincoln Center, The Academy of Motion Pictures, the National Gallery of Art and others).

Alloy collaborates with some of the worlds best archives and collectors (such as the George Eastman House, The British Film Institute, Paramount pictures, Film Preservation Associates and The Douris Corporation) to present audiences with the very best available prints of some of history's greatest film.

This event was made possible with support from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music and Real Art Ways members.

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