“CHANG” MUSIC

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 169, 7 October 1927, Page 15

“CHANG” MUSIC

A DIFFICULT PROBLEM E>r. Hugo Riesenfeld wrote an elaborate musical score for the presentation of “Chang,” Paramount’s junffle melodrama which, commenced an extended lun at the Rivoli Theatre, New York, recently. With tlie opening of ''Chang," Dr. Resenfeld has achieved the distinctive record of having arranged the musical accompaniment of no fewer than five special pictures running simultaneously Sl* Broadway. The other scores are _ -he Rough Riders,” at the George M. Cohan; “Old Ironsides,” at the Rivoli; Geste,” at the Criterion; and x? e of Kings,” at the Gaiety. -Native Lao music from the hidden itingles of Northern Siam, which was ‘"'Ought back to civilisation by Major Pierian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoeui»LCk. the producers of “Chang,” has ooen stressed in Dr. Riesenfeld’s accompaniment. Novel features of the orchestration provide the use of native »ongs used by the jungle natives to sig- « u from village to village, and an unusual effect achieved by a dozen drumas a great herd of 300 wild eleP mints charge upon and obliterate a native Siamese village. A n * o **tf the notable motion pictures “ ave heen scored by Dr.Riesenlci are “The Covered Waggon,” “The ir , l . Commandments,’* “The Four Lorsemen," “Humeresque,” “The Sorw? ? f Slltan .” “The Beggar on Horse- *■’ Tho Hunchback of Notre . “The Miracle Man,” “Silence” The Flaming f rontier.” Jewish protests have been . in America against the story « m ? n * * n the “King of Kings,” and «^ lr L* in^unctions are actually being ought to restrain its showing, on the that it is defamatory to the Hebrew race.