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Cinema Studies Presents: Composing Music for Silent Film Masterclass with Brian McWhorter
Orchestra
Location: Lawrence Hall - 6-2-2026 4:00 pm - 5:55 pm (America/Los_Angeles) (1 hour 55 minutes)

Filmlandia Masterclass Presented by University Film Society Join Cinema Studies for a talk with Brian McWhorter, UO Professor of Music and Director of Orchestra Next. He’ll share his process for composing a score for Ed’s Coed (1929), the first feature film produced by students in the US and filmed at the UO. The musical score features early twentieth-century songs and McWhorter’s original compositions. Cosponsored by: Harlan J. Strauss Visiting Filmmaker Endowment; Department of Art; Department of Comparative Literature; Department of English; Department of History; Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies; Native American and Indigenous Studies; Folklore and Public Culture Program; School of Journalism and Communication; Art House Theater; DUX Present; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art; Julie and Rocky Dixon Chair of U.S. Western History; and Oregon Humanities Center’s Endowment for Public Outreach in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities.

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