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COASTAL LIFE
A night at the ‘silent’ movies
Stalking darkness
There’s great pleasure to be found on an evening walk
ARTS
A life full of art
Scott Ashley is a doctor in a family of artists
FEATURE
The season of salmon
Columbia-Pacifc sport fishers say hello to summer
DINING
Mouth of the Columbia
Now is the best time of year for Bowpick fish and chips
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wrote a score, which became the
accepted music. Salisbury per-
formed Carter’s score Thursday
and improvised during the air
battle scenes
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the horror of war was on full dis-
play. The different technologies
and modes were side by side: in-
fantry, cavalry, trenches, barbed
wire, bayonets, machine guns,
open-cockpit biplanes, tanks.
The sheer number of extras —
thousands — was impressive
during the shots of long march-
es and the climactic Battle of
Saint-Mihiel. The U.S. Army Air
Corps even provided 300 pilots
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Without dialogue or sound,
without color or enhanced cam-
era work, the war’s horror was
vivid, and Salisbury’s organ mu-
sic was relentless and emotive,
hitting you right in the gut.
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REBECCA SEDLAK
the screen, the music changing
dramatically: The dark, ominous
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the theater, signaling alarm.
The soundtrack was front
and center, music communicat-
ing emotions and drama that the
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late without sound. The musical
themes — 21 in all — heralded
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boo the bad guys and scream and different characters and moods,
cheer the good guys — don’t just including a merry melody for
When I told people I was sit there; be a part of it,” he said. Clara Bow, patriotic tunes, and
attending the Astoria Music
With that, Salisbury began to a military beat for marching sol-
Festival’s Night at the Movies: play, his concentration moving diers.
Classic Film with Organ between the magic his hands
Foreboding horns and deep
concert last Thursday, I got the created on the keyboard and bass accompanied the Gotha, a
same response from everyone: the action on screen. Light and massive German plane sent to
“Did you go last year?”
bouncy music cued the idyllic, bomb a French village. As torpe-
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with live organ music last sum- acters beginning scenes. The symbols from Salisbury’s organ
mer — 1926’s “The General” audience cheered at Clara Bow’s marked each explosion.
— but it got rave reviews. So on appearance.
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Thursday, I eagerly entered the
But we were reminded the released in New York City, a
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the show to begin.
The word “WAR!” leapt across Salisbury said. In Los Angeles,
And what a show it was. In
a concert sponsored by Rodgers
Instruments, LLC., world-re-
nowned theater organist Bob
Salisbury played the score for
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Clara Bow, Charles “Buddy”
Rodgers and Richard Arlen,
“Wings” tells the story of two
young men from a small town
who are in a love triangle (well,
really, a love rectangle) and serve
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“Wings” won Best Picture at
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mony in 1929 — the only silent
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2011’s “The Artist.”
Before the show began, Salis-
bury encouraged the audience to
add their own sounds. “You can
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