The Fall of the House of Usher (1928): Silent Film Screening w/ Live Music
Sunday, October 26, 2025
Performance at 8:00PM | Doors at 7:30PM
Suggested Donation: $25 – General Admission // $15 – Student, senior, etc.
None turned away for lack of funds, no pressure
This Poe silent film screening is accompanied by Jeff Pagano’s live score, performed by the Delachaise Ensemble of Candlelight Concert fame!
Experience Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’ like never before. This special event presents a newly composed original score, performed live alongside Jean Epstein’s legendary 1928 silent film adaptation — a surreal, dreamlike interpretation of Poe’s story of madness, decay, and the supernatural.
The new score, composed by Jeff Pagano, weaves together elements of surrealist classical music, dark ambient soundscapes, and avant garde chamber writing, intensifying the film’s unsettling atmosphere. Drawing inspiration from early modernists like Erik Satie and Arnold Schoenberg, and echoing the spectral worlds of Poe’s own imagination, the music conjures a crumbling mansion haunted by memory, bloodline, and fate.Scored by Jeff Pagano
Live Orchestration by Delachaise Ensemble
Artists:
Moises Cunha – Violin
Elizabeth Cunha – Violin
Catherine Matushek – Viola
Jacob Fowler – Cello
Jim Riley – Guitar
