REAL ART WAYS PRESENTS SILENT FILM/LIVE MUSIC
Nosferatu with the Alloy Orchestra

Saturday, October 29, 2011| 8 PM
Advance tickets: $25/$20 for members
Day of show tickets: $30/$25 members

Hartford, Connecticut - Just in time for Halloween, Real Art Ways will present F.W. Murnau’s 1922 silent horror classic Nosferatu accompanied by the Alloy Orchestra on Saturday, October 29 at 8pm. Nosferatu is the world's first vampire film, a classic German Expressionist film based on Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula.

Don’t expect to see blood, gore or vampires that sparkle. Instead prepare for a psychological thriller starring German actor Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a decrepit creature with a bald-head, pointed ears, rat-like front teeth and elongated fingernails; a believable portrayal of living death.

Matching the disturbing imagery of the film is Alloy Orchestra's supremely creepy original score, living up to Murnau's full title Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror.

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)

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.

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