Featuring live music from The Teeny-Tiny Pit Orchestra

Sunday, October 25th, 7:00 p.m.
Seuss Room of Geisel Library at UCSD

Live music will accompany short slapstick classics from Laurel & Hardy--featuring all the bells and whistles you can stand! Pit director Scott Paulson will save a solo for you: strike the thundersheet; play on exotic wooden bird calls; execute a delicate glissando on the harp; play on a real Theremin, if you dare!

The orchestra will be on better behavior when accompanying the feature film that evening: King Vidor's 1928 masterpiece "The Crowd". That feature was experimental in its day, and still stands as an epic social commentary film with surprising broad appeal. Projectionist/film curator that evening: Kelle Anzalone.

Questions? Call Scott Paulson, pit director of the Teeny-Tiny Pit Orchestra for Silent Films, at his desk at the UCSD Arts Library: (858) 822-5758.

About the Teeny-Tiny Pit Orchestra:

"Classically trained and charmingly twisted." (SD CityBeat)

"The assorted keyboards of Paulson's Teeny-Tiny Pit Orchestra provide a rich aural tapestry."(San Diego Union-Tribune)

"An out-of-the-ordinary cinematic experience." (LA Times)

"Weird and wonderful"(San Diego CityBeat)

"Unique and popular...Scott Paulson's merry band of eccentric nightingales is an inspired notion.''(SD Union Tribune)

"This madcap ensemble is reinventing an art form." (LA Times) ''Classically trained and charmingly twisted'' (San Diego CityBeat) ''Madcap and somewhat in the Spike Jones/Dadaist tradition.''(SD Union Tribune) ''Paulson's brand of G-rated fun, a sort of modern day morphing of Captain Kangaroo and Spike Jones, is always lively and at times wonderfully chaotic.''(LA Times)