The Boister Ensemble

Fabulous band playing with the classic silent movie ...Intolerance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCq2tN8SGvs

Clip from Boister's original score of D.W. Griffith's Intolerance. The audio is from a Boister rehearsal, winter, 2010. The Baltimore-based ensemble Boister performs its acclaimed live score to D. W. Griffith's masterpiece.
Starring silent-film darling Lillian Gish, Intolerance intercuts four thematically linked narratives: a contemporary melodrama, the death of Jesus Christ, the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572, and-most magnificently-the fall of Babylon at the hands of the Persians in 539 BCE. Wildly ambitious for its time with mammoth sets and lavish costumes, the film is still a spectacle to behold. Film scholar Tom Gunning calls Boister's accompaniment "thrilling ... the band so profoundly understands that the film is about how rhythm propels us through time and space, and makes that rhythm tangible for everyone." (Dir.: D. W. Griffith, United States, 1916, B&W, silent, 167 min.)