For Halloween 2015, student composers from the Berklee Silent Film Orchestra — under the direction of Berklee Professor of Film Scoring Sheldon Mirowitz — and the musicians of the fabled Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra — under the direction of maestro Keith Lockhart — undertook a massive challenge, unprecedented in the history of the Pops or iconic Symphony Hall. They would create a new orchestral score for the great-grandaddy of all vampire films, F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, and perform it live to picture. This video tells the story of how that music, and that concert, came to be.
Thanks to:
The Boston Pops, and Maestro Keith Lockhart
Dennis Alves, Amanda Severin, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Thereminist: Rob Schwimmer
Moog System 55 performer: Michael Bierylo
Professor of Film Scoring Sheldon Mirowitz and his Scoring Silent Films students, the composers of Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror:
Amit May Cohen, Matthew Morris, Elena Nezhelskaya, Emily Joseph, Hyunsoo Nam, Joy Ngiaw, Jungwan “Wani" Han, and Victor Kong
At Berklee College of Music: Roger Brown, Tom Riley, George Clinton,
Alison Plante, and Rob Hayes.
Directed, filmed, and edited by Henry Hayes
