Count Dracula: This is very old wine. I hope you will like it.
Renfield: Aren't you drinking?
Count Dracula: I never drink...wine.

The acclaimed Philip Glass score to Tod Browning's 1931 film classic, Dracula, originally composed for the Kronos Quartet, will be performed live to film by the Orange Road Quartet, The Cuker and Stern Graduate String Quartet in Residence at the Mannes School of Music.  The quartet will perform with guest conductor and Mannes alum, Michael Riesman, in their concert debut at The New School.

Just in time for Halloween...This event is open to the public and free with registration!

MOVIE STYLE POPCORN WILL BE SERVED!

The (Un)Silent Film series has been critical in advancing the resurgence of film screenings with live music and has been hosted by Matthew Broderick, Bill Irwin, Rob Bartlett, Ed Rothstein, and Michael Bacon.

(Un)Silent Film nights have presented the world premieres of works composed for The Birds and The Immigrant (by Nathan Kamal and Alexis Cuadrado respectively), a New York premiere of a score by Hollywood composer Craig Marks for the film Sherlock, Jr., and Charlie Chaplin's original scores for Gold Rush and other Chaplin classics. The most recent (Un)Silent presented the world premiere of a new score to the iconic film, METROPOLIS, composed by Mannes student, Amir Sanjari.

Enjoy the thrills, chills and humor of this classic as we launch into Halloween!

*Free with registration.

*Please plan ahead and arrive 15 minutes prior to the event. Due to demand, tickets not processed by 7:40pm will be released. Thank you!

Learn more about Orange Road Quartet.

About the film:

After a harrowing ride through the Carpathian mountains in eastern Europe, Renfield enters castle Dracula to finalize the transferral of Carfax Abbey in London to Count Dracula, who is in actuality a vampire. Renfield is drugged by the eerily hypnotic count, and turned into one of his thralls, protecting him during his sea voyage to London. After sucking the blood and turning the young Lucy Weston into a vampire, Dracula turns his attention to her friend Mina Seward, daughter of Dr. Seward who then calls in a specialist, Dr. Van Helsing, to diagnose the sudden deterioration of Mina's health. Van Helsing, realizing that Dracula is indeed a vampire, tries to prepare Mina's fiance, John Harker, and Dr. Seward for what is to come and the measures that will have to be taken to prevent Mina from becoming one of the undead.—Doug Sederberg (sonic.net)

Dracula (1931)

Directors: Tod Browning, Karl Freund

Writers: Bram Stoker, Hamilton Deane, John L. Balderston

Cast (in credits order):
Bela Lugosi Bela Lugosi ... Count Dracula
Helen Chandler Helen Chandler ... Mina
David Manners David Manners ... John Harker
Dwight Frye Dwight Frye ... Renfield
Edward Van Sloan Edward Van Sloan ... Van Helsing
Herbert Bunston Herbert Bunston ... Doctor Seward
Frances Dade Frances Dade ... Lucy
Joan Standing Joan Standing ... Maid
Charles K. Gerrard Charles K. Gerrard ... Martin (as Charles Gerrard)

(Un)Silent Film - Dracula in Concert

John L. Tishman Auditorium 

Friday October 25, 2024 7:30pm