Silent Film Music by J.S. Zamecnik - Classic Cinema Soundtrack for Vintage Movie Nights & Historical Film Screenings

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Product Description A student of Antonin Dvorak, American-born composer J.S. Zamecnik (ZAHM-ish-nick) is one of many forgotten composers from the silent film era. Intense, descriptive, and passionate, this music--played live during film screenings--was once the most widely performed genre of American classical music. But with the advent of talking pictures, it disappeared into undeserved obscurity. With this recording of Zamecniks music, the Mont Alto quintet responds to the resurgence of interest in silent films by making available some of the music that was considered indispensable for their presentation. From the Label "Bravo! I listened with enormous pleasure to the music... In treating these as little salon pieces, you have made them far more beautiful than they usually sound in accompaniment to silent movies. And like everything from Mont Alto, they are beautifully played."