And now for something completely different! WSO's Concertmaster & World Renowned Silent Film Duo - Sunday, June 13th, 4 pm at Edmond Town Hall.

Step back in time for a magical afternoon to experience a delightful pairing of celebrated masters as Waterbury Symphony brings the music to Edmond Town Hall on Sunday, June 13th, 2026 at 4pm. Waterbury Symphony Orchestra's concertmaster, Alyce Cognetta Bertz and Silent Film Musician Duo Donald Sosin and Joanna Seaton, often cited as the world's foremost silent film musicians, will perform an original score alongside a showing of Harold Lloyd's iconic movie "Speedy"!

As an avid silent films enthusiast, WSO Music Director Leif Bjaland spoke of his excitement

about this event, "I love silent films and The Speedy is such a fun classic! How perfect it is to perform this classic with such a gifted silent film live score musician duo with violinist Alyce Cognetta Bertz adding to the drama of this film classic"

Tickets Are $40 on First Come First Serve Basis and will be General Seating

ONLINE TICKETS CLICK HERE  

OR, call our WSO/Palace Theater Box Office* Mon - Fri, 10 am to 4 pm at 203-346-2000

To visit in The Box Office in person:  

100 East Main Street, Waterbury, CT during Box Office Hours per above.  

Calendar Listing:

Sunday, June 13th, 4 pm

Edmond Town Hall

45 Main Street

Newtown, CT 06470

Doors Open 3:15p.m.

Free accessible parking in adjacent lot

Tickets $40, $10 for students with ID - Call box officeFor tickets online, visit: waterburysymphony.org

For ticketing by phone: 203-346-2000**Via box office partner, Palace Theater Ticketing Office Waterbury Symphony Orchestra Telephone: 203-574-4283

About Harold Lloyd's "Speedy"

Released in 1928, Speedy is the final silent comedy masterpiece starring legendary comedian Harold Lloyd. Set against the bustling backdrop of New York City, the film follows the lovable but accident-prone Speedy Swift as he navigates work, romance, and an effort to save his girlfriend’s grandfather’s horse-drawn streetcar from extinction. Filled with thrilling chases, inventive physical comedy, and rare footage of 1920s Manhattan—including a memorable cameo by baseball icon Babe Ruth—Speedy remains one of the most beloved and enduring films of the silent era.

About Donald Sosin & Joanna Seaton

Donald Sosin is one of the world's foremost silent film musicians, performing on piano, organ and synthesizer, and conducting his scores at film festivals worldwide—New York, Telluride, San Francisco, Seattle, Houston, TriBeCa, Denver, Atlanta, and Miami, often with his wife, singer/percussionist Joanna Seaton.

For 50 years he has been a staff accompanist at MoMA and Lincoln Center Film, and other New York venues. The couple has also performed at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival and Music Mountain, at the National Gallery of Art, MFA Boston, at Italy's two major festivals in Pordenone and Bologna, the Berlin Filmmuseum, and Moscow's prestigious Lumière Gallery, the Yorkshire Silent Film Festival, in South Korea, Bangkok. Donald's orchestral score for the 1916 feature Sherlock Holmes was premiered in Odessa, Ukraine with 15,000 spectators.

Joanna and Donald have also performed at Yale, Harvard, Cornell, Brown and Emory Universities, the Banff Center, and created scores for over 65 silent film DVDs on many labels. Since 2018 Donald has toured all over the US and Europe with klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals performing their collaborative scores for three Jewish-themed silent films.

Donald has had commissions from the Chicago Symphony Chorus, the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, the Colorado Children's Chorus, MoMA, Anthology Film Archives, Cineteca di Bologna, Deutsche Kinemathek, the Criterion Collection, Lobster Films, Milestone Films, KinoLorber, TCM, Arte, the Film Foundation, the National Film Preservation Foundation, Le Giornate del Cinema Muto and the Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam.

A native of Rye, NY, Donald played on Broadway for many years and has written music for television, radio and the concert hall. He and Joanna have taught silent film music workshops at universities in Syracuse, Denver, Berkeley and San Francisco, and master classes for professionals in Connecticut and Italy. They live in Lakeville CT and have two children