'I Had to Finds Ways to Make the Music Structurally the Same As the Film' ; Opera Composer Lynne Plowman has Ventured Into New Territory by Writing the Score to an Old Silent Film. Gavin Allen Asks Her About the Project

Western Mail › April 25, 2009

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LYNNE PLOWMAN is certainly taking on a major challenge as she makes her first foray into the world of film - she's composing the score for an old silent movie.

The Cardiff-based composer has re-written the score to The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, a black and white 1919 German film which is widely regarded as the first horror film.

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'I Had to Finds Ways to Make the Music Structurally the Same As the Film' ; Opera Composer Lynne Plowman has Ventured Into New Territory by Writing the Score to an Old Silent Film. Gavin Allen Asks Her About the Project

It will be given its world premiere at The Riverfront in Newport on Tuesday before touring.

It is being performed live in the auditorium by London Mozart Players.

She took on the project because she though...

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