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Feb 10
After a very successful concert at the Melbourne Recital Centre in June, Blue Grassy Knoll return on the 6 August with a double bill of music film scores in the Elisabeth Murdoch Hall.
The first is a world premiere of their brand new score to Buster Keaton’s The General. Perhaps Keaton’s biggest feat and possibly his greatest silent comedy, The General is set as a Civil-War adventure epic and was made towards the end of the silent film genre. Filled with Keaton trade-mark hilarious silent gags and perfectly timed stunt work, it undoubtedly has the best train film sequence ever made.
The second film is Labourer’s Love (Laogong shi aiqing) the earliest complete film from China’s early cinematic history. In 2007 Blue Grassy Knoll were commissioned to write a new score for Labourer’s Love which has performed to overwhelming critical acclaim in China – they now bring it to Melbourne for the first time before taking it to Shanghai for performances at the World Expo.
Tickets can be bought here.
This score was made possible thanks to development funding in 2009 as part of theVictorian Arts Centre’s Full Tilt program.
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Jan 10
The Blue Grassy Knoll are proud to announce they will be performing on the 4th June, 2010 at the Melbourne Recital Centre.
They will be reprising one of their most popular works, a performance of Buster Keaton’s classic Sherlock JR along with shorts Cops and One Week. This show has taken them to all 5 continents, including performances on Broadway, in Brazil and from Beijing to London. In recreating the silent movie experience the band sits facing the screen and, committing the music to memory, uses the film itself for their cues – a truly amazing experience to witness.
This show garnered 5 star reviews in Edinburgh and is a truly remarkable experience not to be missed.
Tickets can be obtained through the Recital Centre website.
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Jan 10
Blue Grassy Knoll will be appearing at the World Expo in Shanghai in September 2010 as part of the Australian Pavillion.
They will be performing their score toLaborer’s Love (Laogong zhi aiqing) which is a short film produced in China, also known as Romance of a Fruit Peddler (Zhi guo yuan). It constitutes the earliest complete film from China’s early cinematic history that survives today.
Blue Grassy first wrote and performed this score for the Australian Theatre Festival in Beijing and Shanghai in 2007, with funding from the Victorian Arts Centre.
It is the second time that Blue Grassy Knoll have been Australian cultural representatives at Expo, the last time was in 2000 in Hannover, Germany.