Sidewalk Stories o.s.t.
Soundtrack, Marc Marder- Fine Tuning
- Overture
- David and Goliath
- Love Theme from Sidewalk Stories
- Artist Wanders
- Child's Theme
- Breakfast Reveille/Chinese Spiritual
- Love Theme (Reprise) and Cavatina
- Mama Chez les Police
- Bad Lady Telephone Booth Blues
- Fast Food Sketch
- Concerto for Piano and Bibliophiles
- DInner at Eight
- No Vacancy
- Concrete Cowboy Wake-Up
- Mother and Children Reunion
- Exit Music
Nearly silent comedy filmed in black and white follows a street artist (Charles Lane), who rescues a baby after her father was murdered. The artist then sets off to find the mother, but has to first learn how to care for the child. Ultimately he ends
up in a horse drawn chase of the murderers.
«Sidewalk Stories» was part of the 1989 Cannes Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight.
The soundtrack to Charles Lane's modern silent movie features a suitably bouncy and narrative-like mix of jazz, tango, chamber, and old-world dancehall music. Composer Mark Marder composed the 17 highly enjoyable selections here, and shows a deft touch with the manic and descriptive ramblings of silent film accompaniment; he also demonstrates a modern depth that elevates the music well above the carnival world of the proverbial movie palace (his eclecticism is particularly well framed on the
stylistically mercurial and wryly titled "Concerto for Piano and Bibliophiles"). Featuring a top-drawer, 14-piece ensemble of strings, brass, reeds, piano, accordion, and a variety of guitars, Sidewalk Stories is consistently impressive and works quite nicely as a musical program in its own right.
Marc Marder will receive the FRANCE MUSIQUESACEM prize at the Salle Pleyel on October 10th 2014 for the «The Missing Picture» Original Soundtrack.