Film and Live Score

The Wind scored by Brian LeBarton

Ballroom Marfa invited Brian Lebarton to Marfa to compose a live score to the 1928 silent film, The Wind. Brian LeBarton is a keyboardist, composer and electronic musician from Los Angeles, California who works mostly in the alternative rock or electronic genre. 

The evening began with Alpine’s Joel Nelson, one of today’s most respected cowboy poets and reciters. His CD, The Breaker in the Pen, is the only Cowboy Poetry recording ever nominated for a Grammy Award. In 2009, Nelson was awarded a prestigious National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) National Heritage Fellowship.

The Wind is a silent film directed by Victor Sjöströ. The film follows an impoverished young woman named Letty Mason as she travels west by train from Virginia to live at her cousin Beverly’s isolated ranch in Sweetwater, Texas. While it was critically maligned up its initial release, The Wind has gone onto to receive contemporary acclaim and is largely considered one of the best silent films of all time. 

This performance was presented in collaboration with Marfa Public Radio. It was free and open to the public. 

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