KENYON HALL PRESENTS
L’Inferno
with Live Score by Lori Goldston & Corey J Brewer
Saturday, August 1, 2026
Doors: 7pm
Show: 7:30pm
Seated
General Admission: $20
Senior/Students: $10
Experience L'Inferno (1911), Italy’s first full length film, with an original live score by Lori Goldston & Corey J Brewer–a visionary landmark film that shaped the language of cinema from DeMille to Lynch. Acclaimed cellist and composer Goldston—who toured with Nirvana, appears on their MTV Unplugged album, and has collaborated with David Byrne, Cat Power, Terry Riley, Lynn Shelton, and many more—joins forces with musician Brewer, whose score for The Shining Forwards and Backwards helped launch Portland Art Museums Tomorrow Theater in 2023. Together they reimagine Italy's first feature film in a spellbinding performance not to be missed.
About the film
Dante's "Inferno," a 1911 Italian film with music by Tangerine Dream | Features | Roger Ebert
https://silentfilm.org/linferno/
Inferno 1911: Italy's First Feature Film and Other Early Literary Interpretations - Cinema Chicago
One of the Earliest Feature Films Was This Italian Adaptation of Dante’s Inferno
Corey J Brewer’s musical viewpoint was cemented in his early teens, splitting his time playing classical violin in middle school string ensemble, guitar in a punk band, and a solo noise project that in 1996 was name checked in ArtForum by Thurston Moore in a list of “artists garnering the most excitement from this scene”.
Originally from Washington State's Skagit Valley he has lived in Seattle for over 20 years.
He has performed new original live film scores solo for The Cat & the Canary (1927), The Velvet Vampire and The Shining Forwards & Backwards, and also as a duo with acclaimed cellist and composer Lori Goldston for L’Inferno (1911).
These live scores have been performed at The Portland Art Museums Tomorrow Theater, The Beacon Cinema, The Frye Museum, Northwest Film Forum, The Capitol Theater, The Grand Cinema and the historic Lincoln Theatre in his hometown of Mt Vernon.
He has composed scores for the short films The Visited, World Without Pizza, & Top and the feature film By The Roots, which premiered as the closing night feature at The Beverly Hills Film Festival 2026.
Lori Goldston plays written, traditional and spontaneous work on cello, and works as a composer, teacher, producer, bandleader, and prolific, widely varied collaborator.
Classically trained and rigorcommunitiesously de-trained, self-described as “semi-feral”, her voice as a cellist is singular, deeply textured and original, investigating thresholds, instability, and connections between far-flung modes of thought. She travels throughout the US and abroad, often working in artist-run spaces, with an eye toward being a bridge between .
Well known for her work touring with Nirvana and contributing to their Unplugged In New York, she works prolifically and with composers, film makers, writers, theater directors, choreographers, visual artists, orchestras and bands including Earth, BBC Scottish Symphony, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Ya Tseen, Judith Hamann, Mirah, David Byrne, Jem Finer, Jessika Kenney, Lonnie Holley, Trimpin, Stuart Dempster, Shelley Hirsch, Maya Dunietz, Michael Hurley, Chris Cochrane, Gwen Laster, Melanie Dyer, Laura Cannell, Ilan Volkov, Charles Hayward, Jem Finer, Embryo, Josephine Foster, Mik Quantius, Jooklo, Ghedalia Tezartes, Senga Nengudi, Ellen Fullman, Lynn Shelton, Terry Riley, and many, many others. She’s composed and performed live scores with dozens of experimental and early silent films throughout the US, Europe, Australia, and Mexico.
Her solo and collaborative work has been released by Mississippi Records, Nyahh, Relative Pitch, Eiderdown, Yo Yo, K Records, Sub Rosa, Second Editions, Sub Pop, PIAPTK, Full Spectrum, Marginal Frequency, and Broken Clover, among others; in 2026 she will release an album on ESP-Disk.
“Goldston is a hugely important character in contemporary music history.” – The Quietus
“Cello music sounded from fathoms deep.” – NPR.