Berklee Silent Film Orchestra Performs to Harold Lloyd's The Freshman at Nantucket Film Festival

The Berklee Silent Film Orchestra (BSFO), which film critic Leonard Maltin has described as “nothing short of thrilling,” will perform its brand new score in sync to Harold Lloyd's classic romantic comedy, The Freshman, at the Nantucket Dreamland Theater as the kick-off event for this year's Nantucket Film Festival, which is dedicated to promoting cultural awareness and appreciation of the art of screenwriting in the world of cinema. One of the first 50 films chosen for preservation by the Library of Congress, The Freshman is among comic genius Lloyd’s most successful and enduring films.

The BSFO, veterans of Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival, and Boston’s Symphony Hall, are two-time recipients of the Boston Society of Film Critics’ Award of Merit. The outfit will conduct and perform its new score for this pioneering romantic comedy in an unforgettable live-to-picture experience.

Tickets are available here.

About the Berklee Silent Film Orchestra (BSFO)

The Berklee Silent Film Orchestra is dedicated to composing new, original scores for silent feature classics, and performing them live-to-picture. Based at Berklee, home to the world’s first undergraduate degree program in film scoring, the student orchestra composes its new works and performs them as an ensemble under the leadership of three-time Emmy nominee and Professor Sheldon Mirowitz (Outside Providence, Missing in America), artistic director of the BSFO.

“When the film concluded, over 1,000 people leapt to their feet, cheering. I can’t wait to hear the orchestra again.”— Film critic Leonard Maltin (Entertainment Tonight, Maltin on Movies) on the BSFO's performance at the 2016 San Francisco Silent Film Festival

“For 73 minutes, the world was wonderful.” — Delighted patron, following the BSFO’s performance of Harold Lloyd’s Safety Last!