What's Being Said..
Tom Nazziola's original score to the silent film, "The Golem," is a
fantastic musical achievement. Magical, mysterious, colorful and
relentless! The amazing music plays from the beginning of the movie
all the way to the end, but every moment of it is pure genius and
the musicians all play brilliantly. I can't wait to hear it again.
Not only does the music work perfectly with the movie but the
music, on it's own is just incredible music. Absolutely brilliant!
Tom convincingly and appropriately used the unusual and exotic
sounds of Jewish ethnic music (Sephardic, Greek & Arabic) in his own
personal and unique way to create a stunning and artistic musical
experience. I've always been a fan of Tom's music and the BQE
Project, and I've been to many of their events, but "The Golem" is
on a whole other level of greatness. My favorite without a doubt.
Not to be missed!
- Barry Hartglass
“Having seen that film (silently) before, I had never fully enjoyed
or understood it. But your score, with its effective evocations
of Jewish music (and the movie's fabulous abstract-expressionist
sets) and its cogent support of the rather complex, often
“patchwork” and slightly erratic dramaturgy in the film, made the
weird tale come fully ALIVE for us in the audience. THANK YOU!
Keep up the great work!”
- Dr. Bruce C. MacIntyre, Director;
Murray Koppelman Professor of Music
Conservatory of Music, Brooklyn College
"Tonight I saw Tom Nazziola's BQE Project perform his brand new original score to Buster Keaton's Battling Butler at the Walter Reade Theater. I've known Tom for a number of years, and while he's come to a few of my shows, I've always been working when the BQE has performed. Luckily, I was unengaged this evening, and was really glad I got to hear Tom's scoring work and his excellent 8-piece ensemble. They did a great job, and Tom's score really did the work Battling Butler needs...it supported the energy, gags' rhythm and the heart of the piece. BK's BB is not one of his greatest, and is somewhat uncharacteristic, but it's a story well-told and with a great supporting cast. If you get a chance to hear Tom and the BQE -- go. The sound is traditional and is scored down to the second...meaning it's not mood music beds that fit, it's more like a real film score timed to each beat of the picture."
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Ben Model
Ben Model, one of the country's leading
silent film accompanists, creates all his own original scores and
performs them live on piano or theatre organ.
- Steven Rea, The Philadelphia Inquirer
"The BQE Project meshed seamlessly with the original soundtrack to 'Blue Angel', providing a sensitive live accompaniment to Marlene Dietrich's recorded voice and breathing new life into the classic film. A true tour deforce!"
- David Latulippe, WNYC radio
"The BQE Project was highly entertaining… a fascinating marriage of past and present, as well as sight and sound."
- Bard College, campus newspaper
“Ending the Williamstown Film Festival with Frankenstein accompanied by BQE Project's live original score was a night to remember. An incredible Halloween graced by the melding of two art forms - a horror classic onscreen, a brilliant musical troupe onstage.
- Steve Lawson Executive Director, Williamstown Film Festival
"The BQE Project was highly entertaining… a fascinating marriage of past and present, as well as sight and sound."
- Bard College, campus newspaper
"The BQE Project is one of the best of those groups that regularly composes new scores for old films and performs them live."
- Seth Rogevoy, The Berkshire Eagle, Massachusetts
"With his BQE Project's 'Frankenstein' score, composer Tom Nazziola has re-animated the 1931 monster movie with a decidedly contemporary sound."
Drew Pisarra, The Park Slope Paper - Brooklyn, NY
Press Releases
- Drew Pisarra,The Parklope Paper Brooklyn, NY
- Ben Modell, Silent film accom-panist
- Brooklyn Center for the Perform-ing Arts
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