92YTribeca
200 Hudson St. at Canal St.
Friday, April 19, $12-$15, 9:00
212-415-5500
www.92y.org
www.forthesakeofthesong.com
Brendan Cooney’s Not So Silent Cinema project comes to 92YTribeca on Friday, April 19, presenting a new live score for three classic Buster Keaton shorts. In The Goat (Malcolm St. Clair & Buster Keaton, 1921), Keaton plays a man mistaken for escaped murderer Dead Shot Dan (St. Clair) and now on the run from the law. In The High Sign (Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton, 1921), Keaton fakes being a sharpshooter and ends up getting hired by the Blinking Buzzards to kill a wealthy man he is also hired to protect by his daughter (Bartine Burkett). And in One Week (Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton, 1920), a pair of newlyweds (Keaton and Sybil Seely) get a plot of land as a wedding present, along with a house-in-a-box that they put together with hysterical results. The trio of early films established the Great Stone Face as a master comedian who commented on the hard socioeconomic times while staging remarkable, extremely dangerous stunts, whether having the side of a house fall on him, jumping from a chair to a table and through a small window above a door, or riding on the front of a speeding train heading directly at the audience. Cooney’s original score, which incorporates American roots music, ragtime, blues, bluegrass, and jazz, will be performed by Kyle Tuttle on banjo, Andy Bergman on clarinet, and Cooney on piano.