The Snark Ensemble.

Snark Ensemble Performance Schedule

Upcoming Live Performances.

2010

Saturday, July 24
4PM

National Gallery of Art
East Building Auditorium, 4th and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20565

The Films:
Harry Langdon in Fiddlesticks
Frank Capra’s Matinee Idol

Guest soloists:
Michael Cameron bass, Jeffry Newberger, violin, Ben Boker and Dale Barton, woodwinds

The first of two early Frank Capra films stars Johnnie Walker as a Broadway minstrel, recruited for a Civil War melodrama with a bottom-of-the-barrrel traveling tent show. Rediscovered in the vaults of the Cinémathèque Française, the long-lost The Matinee Idol is one of the director’s finest early comedies. (Frank Capra, 1928, 35 mm, 56 minutes)

Capra was co-screenwriter for the madcap Fiddlesticks, featuring famed comic Harry Langdon as he struggles to become a bona fide musician on his beloved bass fiddle. (Harry Edwards, 1927, 20 minutes)

Free

Saturday, September 25
7:30PM
70 minutes

Library of Congress at Culpeper
Mount Pony Theater
Library of Congress
Packard Campus
19053 Mount Pony Road
Culpeper, VA 22701-7551

The films:

Don’t Weaken (1920) — Ford Sterling, Charlie Murray
Ice Cold Cocos (1926) — Billy Bevan, Andy Clyde
Saturday Afternoon (1926) – Harry Langdon, Vernon Dent

Guest soloists: Ben Redwine and Dale Barton, woodwinds

Free

More listing to be added soon!

Recent Past Live Performances.

2009

Sunday, November 1
3PM
50 minutes plus instrument petting zoo

Greenbelt Community Center
15 Crescent Road
Greenbelt, MD 20770
301-397-2208

The Films:
Laurel & Hardy: Liberty
Charley Chase: Publicity Pays
Charley Chase: Hello Baby

Guest soloists: Ben Redwine and Dale Barton, woodwinds

Following the showing/performance the Snark Ensemble will hold a discussion about silent films, writing for silent films, and the wild array of instruments the ensemble uses to create a distinct sound world for each film.

Free

Tuesday, November 24
6PM
50 minutes

Millennium Stage: Kennedy Center
Kennedy Center
2700 F St., NW
Washington, D.C. 20566

The Films:
Laurel & Hardy: Liberty
Charley Chase: Publicity Pays
Charley Chase: Hello Baby

Guest soloists: Ben Redwine and Dale Barton, woodwinds

Free

2010

Tuesday, February 23
5:30PM
65 minutes plus discussion

Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Route 193 (University Blvd.) and Stadium Drive on the campus of the University of Maryland.
301.405.ARTS

The Films:
Laurel & Hardy: Liberty
Harry Langdon: All Night Long
Charlie Bowers: There It Is

Guest soloists: Ben Redwine and Dale Barton, woodwinds

Part of the Take Five Series. A discussion with the Snark Ensemble follows the performance.

Free

Saturday, April 17
Time 8PM
60 minutes

Cedar Lane Unitarian Church
8901 Cedar Lane
Bethesda, MD 20814
Tel: 301-493-8300

The Films:
Laurel & Hardy: Liberty
Harry Langdon: All Night Long
Buster Keaton: The Goat

Guest soloists: Ben Redwine and Dale Barton, woodwinds

Thursday, April 22 at 7:30
Friday April 23 at 7:30
Saturday April 24 at 2:00 and 7:30
Sunday April 25 at 2:00
Full Evening/Afternoon

The Catholic University of America
Hartke Theater
3801 Harewood Rd, N.E.
Washington, DC 20017
202-319-4000 Hartke Box Office

Performing live incidental music to Bertold Brecht’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. Music by andrew Earle Simpson, Directed by Eleanor Holdridge

Synopsis: In the midst of an economic crisis, a group of businessmen make a desperate deal with gangster Arturo Ui. What follows is a classic tale of a city held hostage by greed, corruption and violence. Brecht challenges the audience to consider how much freedom they would willingly give up for the sake of peace and prosperity.

Full Priced tickets are $12. Tickets are $8 for Senior Citizens (55+) and CUA Faculty, Staff and Alumni and $5 for students and children under the age of 12.

Wednesday, April 28
Noon
60 minutes

Shakespeare Theatre Company
Sidney Harman Hall 610 F Street NW, Washington, DC 20004.
202.547.1122

The Films:
Laurel & Hardy: Liberty
Harry Langdon: All Night Long
Buster Keaton: The Goat

Free

Saturday, July 17
10:30AM
1 hour

Slapsticon
Rosslyn Spectrum Theatre
1611 N. Kent St. (at Wilson)
Arlington, Virginia

The films:
The Sennett Spot

Shot in the Excitement (1914) — Al St. John, Alice Howell
Don’t Weaken (1920) — Ford Sterling, Charlie Murray
The Funnymooners (1925) — Ralph Graves
Ice Cold Cocos (1926) — Billy Bevan, Andy Clyde

Guest soloists: Ben Redwine and Dale Barton, woodwinds