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The Ten Commandments (1923)Cecile B. DeMille produced two films on the Ten Commandments. The better-known one (starring Charlton Heston & Yul Brenner) was produced in 1956 and the score was written by a young Elmer Bernstein.
But DeMille's first version was a silent one in 1923. When the movie premiered in New York in December of 1923, Hugo Reisenfeld provided the live musical accompaniement employing 40 musicians. As reported in the New York Times on December 16, 1923, one of the musical selections was a symphony by Bruckner. Click here to see the article.
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