Dear friends,
I am excited to be screening the 1925 silent film : Phantom of the Opera with musical accompaniment on organ, piano, saxophone, clarinet, flute and percussion. Phantom of the Opera is a 1925 American silent horror film adaptation of Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel directed by Rupert Julian and starring Lon Chaney in the title role of the the deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House, causing murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.
Yosi accompanied music Ben Hur in May at the All Saints Centre in Lewes as well as Charlie Chaplin's City Lights, in January this year at the Brighton Unitarian Church,the Hunchback of Notre Dame, recently in Lewes, too. He also played for the Cabinet of Dr Caligari in November 2024 as well as the Lodger , Charlie Chaplin Modern Times at the All Saints Centre in Lewes and at the OSO Centre in Barnes to a packed house as well as having been a regular performer at the Classic Cinema Club, the International School of London and Addison Primary School. He has played musical accompaniment on such films as the Artist, The Passion of Joan of Arc, the Arabian Nights, the Man who Laughs, the Voyager, Balloonatic and the Electric House. During lockdown, he streamed musical accompaniment online to films such as Fritz Lang's Metropolis and the comedies of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.
Yosi has also accompanied and shown a few silent films at the All Saints Centre, the first being The Temptress, 1926, starring Greta Garbo as well as Metropolis , the Fritz Lang classic. The screening of Nosferatu is the first time that they showed accompanied silent films at the Brighton Unitarian Church at Halloween 2023.
Yosi is also a seasoned classical pianist and jazz saxophonist/flautist. He performed the Goldberg Variations at St Michael's Church in Lewes in November 2024 as well as played with the Lucharian Trio, Latin-Indo-Celtic jazz trio with Lucho and Sean at the Con Club in Lewes. He also plays regularly with Momentum, 6 piece dynamic latin-Jazz fusion group, with 3 albums. They play regularly at the Pizza Express in London as well as the Bull's Head in Barnes and George IV in Chiswick where they played at the London Jazz Festival.
He will also be giving a piano recital at St Michael's Church in November, a charming programme from Mozart, Bach, Kabalevsky, Chopin, Debussy and Chick Corea. The date is to be decided.
