SAFETY LAST (1923) - Movie with live orchestra - LARKSPUR

Presented by Grand Arts Consortium

GFFO - Safety Last - Movie with Orchestra

A boy leaves his small country town and heads to the big city to get a job. As soon as he makes it big his sweetheart will join him and marry him. His enthusiasm to get ahead leads to some interesting adventures.

 

WORLD PREMIERE SCORE BY EVAN LOSOYA performed LIVE! by the Grand Feature Film Orchestra, returning to the Lark Theater for their 5th show!

 

Evan Losoya is a composer, pianist, and oboist from the San Francisco Bay Area. His music spans multimedia presentations, recitals, and film, including silent cinema.

Evan's compositions have been performed throughout the United States as well as internationally in cities such as Vienna, Austria and São Paulo, Brazil. Since 2021, he has served as chairman of the Grand Arts Consortium, where he has composed and transcribed several film scores for the Grand Feature Film Orchestra (GFFO). Most recently, the GFFO performed his score for Buster Keaton’s 1924 silent comedy Sherlock Jr.

Evan is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition at the Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, where he is also completing a Master of Music in Music Theory Pedagogy. He holds degrees from the California Institute of the Arts (M.F.A.) and the University of California, Santa Barbara (B.A., minor in Linguistics).

The Grand Feature Film Orchestra - Live to film screenings
live music and sound effects with the movies

We're a nonprofit, San Francisco-based group of professional musicians and engineers.  Our orchestra can range in size from 7 to 35+ musicians.

With a passion for how music, sound effects, and visual media come together to tell stories, The Grand Feature Film Orchestra presents creative, original, and restored film scores live, perfectly synchronized with the action on the screen.

Drawing on legendary classic cinema, the GFFO brings historic world-premiere performances, mixed with modern flavors, to ensure an exciting and unforgettable live concert experience.
 
In addition to our professional presentations, the GFFO provides free training for aspiring students from high school to advanced college level in film scoring, live performance, and engineering. We're dedicated to stewarding and empowering projects that foster community and civic participation and facilitate cultural engagement and free expression.

We're committed to advancing creative connections in science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (S.T.E.A.M.) through student projects in collaboration with professional artists and engineers.

Above all, we're here to have fun bringing cinematic art and history to you!

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City: Corte Madera
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Grand Feature Film Orchestra LIVE MUSIC with the MOVIE

The Lark Theater

The Lark Theater

1528 Redwood Highway
Corte Madera, CA 94925
United States

The Lark offers a broad range of cultural programming in a friendly and intimate setting. The repertoire includes first-run, independent, foreign and classic films, live broadcasts of opera, theater, ballet, and art. Among this array of options are: Live From The Met in HD opera series, Britain’s National Theatre Live, Bolshoi Ballet in Cinemas live from Russia, Art and Architecture in Cinemas, and the On Stage at the Lark series featuring a stellar roster of nationally recognized live comedy acts, jazz and classical music.

Annually the Lark partners with the Mill Valley Film Festival to present world premieres and special events as part of the Festival’s program roster. The Lark also serves as a venue for civic fundraisers for local schools and other nonprofit organizations.