Conductor Rick Benjamin at the Miller House Museum

135 West Washington Street,Hagerstown MD 21740

31 March, 2022

Description

Maryland Symphony Orchestra and the Washington County Historical Society welcome you to step back to the age of silent movie music and film. Join the Washington County Historical Society and the Maryland Symphony Orchestra as we welcome Conductor Rick Benjamin to the Miller House Museum for an enlightened evening of music and film. Come Meet the Artist. Rick Benjamin is a leading expert on silent film music and silent film presentation, and has conducted for over seven hundred screenings with the Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, the Irish National Orchestra (Dublin), Denmark's Aalborg and Aarhus Symfoniorkesters, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Virginia Symphony, Olympia Symphony (Washington State), the Anchorage Symphony (Alaska), Chamber Music Hawaii and now The Maryland Symphony Orchestra. Benjamin curates these popular movie programs from his vast personal collection of original, authentic 1898-1928 film scores and orchestrations. Our doors will open at 5:30pm with light hors d'oeuvres and our featured cocktail of the evening, The Mary Pickford. Mr. Benjamin will begin at 6:00pm. The James and Mary Schurz Foundation sponsor this joint venture of the Maryland Symphony Orchestra and the Washington county Historical Society