The Masters of Silent Comedy

Hear and see classic silent films as they were originally presented at their debut! The Peacherine Ragtime Society Orchestra will accompany three classic silent films from the turn of the last century live, with their historic orchestral scores:

Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy
HABEUS CORPUS (1928)

Charlie Chaplin
THE ADVENTURER (1917)

Buster Keaton
ONE WEEK (1920)

The Peacherine Ragtime Society Orchestra is “the premier American ragtime ensemble” as hailed by the Washington Post, and is rapidly becoming the leading professional ragtime orchestra in the United States. Formed by young virtuoso Andrew Greene at the University of Maryland in 2010, the Peacherine Ragtime Society Orchestra recreates the syncopated stylings of a bygone era – Ragtime, Theater, and Dance music, along with underscoring classic silent films using an immense archive of over 12,000 original orchestral scores.

The PRSO has repeatedly appeared at leading venues including The Kennedy Center, The Library of Congress, The American Film Institute, historic theaters, state-of-the-art performing arts centers, colleges, universities, and concert associations across the United States.

In addition to concert programs, Mr. Greene and the PRSO underscore classic silent films featuring the biggest names of the day: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Laurel & Hardy, Douglas Fairbanks, and others. Mr. Greene also has the distinction of rebuilding the original compiled scores for Buster Keaton’s THE GENERAL (1927), COLLEGE (1927), and Charlie Chaplin’s SHOULDER ARMS (1918), and others from the PRSO’s collection of over 500 original film scores.

Sponsored by the Ed Berkowitz Film Education Fund.