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."

- 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.