Even though the 1927 silent film ”Love” was based on Tolstoy`s ”Anna Karenina,” producers decided to change the name to feature the off-screen affair between the movie`s stars. Marquees read: ”John Gilbert and Greta Garbo are in `Love.”` On Friday, the film will be given a rare showing at Orchestra Hall with live music by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. The new score was composed by CSO violinist Arnold Brostoff, who wrote the music in 21 days.
”From the age of 7 to 17 I went to the movies everyday and heard all the great film scores and saw all the great actors,” he said. Brostoff, who also will conduct, first performed the piece with the CSO to a sell-out crowd at Moscow`s Kino Center.
The film, directed by Edmund Goulding who went on to do ”Grand Hotel,”
will be shown on a 15-by-20-foot screen hung in front of the Orchestra Hall organ pipes.
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”Love” with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Orchestra Hall, 220 S. Michigan Ave.; 8 p.m. Friday; $17.50 and $25; 435-8122.
