#2640: New Music for Silent Films: Blackmail

New Sounds | May 24, 2010
From the New Sounds Live/Silent Film series, the Alloy Orchestra performs their score to the Alfred Hitchcock movie "Blackmail" on keyboards, clarinet, accordion, percussion, and their famed “rack of junk,” at the World Financial Center.

PROGRAM # 2640, From NS Live, World Financial Center (First aired on February 15, 2007)

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Alloy Orchestra

NS Live, WFC, 2-7-07

Blackmail, excerpts [44:30]

Not commercially available. See Alloy's website for information about their other recordings: www.alloyorchestra.com

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