Interview:
Justin Sherburn,
Montopolis artistic director,
"A Fistful of Tango"
Cowboys need nothin’ more than a hat, horse, and the will to … tango? Conceived by Montopolis artistic director Justin Sherburn, the multimedia event A Fistful of Tango on July 9 at Pioneer Farms features Sherburn and Montopolis violinist Leigh Mahoney performing a live score to the 1920 William S. Hart silent western The Toll Gate based on traditional tango arrangements by composer Glover Gill. Master Pancake’s Mac Blake and Fallout Theater founding member Carlos Larotta also have tango-ified The Toll Gate through their irreverent reworking of the Lambert Hillyer-directed western. A Fistful of Tango begins at 7 p.m. with a beginner’s tango lesson by Monica Caivano and Gustavo Simplis of Esquina Tango Dance Studio followed byThe Toll Gate screening and live score. The evening concludes at 9 p.m. with a post-screening Argentine social dance known as a “milonga.” A Fistful of Tango represents Montopolis artistic director Justin Sherburn’s second silent western live score project after setting William S. Hart’s 1916 The Return of Draw Egan to excerpts of classic spaghetti western soundtracks scored by Ennio Morricone. Justin Sherburn also composed a live score to the 1929 silent film Man With a Movie Camera, composed the scores for the documentaries Above AllElse and Yakona, and collaborated on the multimedia concert events Big Bend, Enchanted Rock, and The Living Coast.
Aired: July 1, 2021. Web sites: https://montopolismusic.com https://www.facebook.com/MontopolisMusic/ https://www.rocketcinematexas.com/event-details/a-fistful-of-tango |
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