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Christabel-Syeles.mp3 (10.6 MB)Christabel Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra
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Albert SyelesAuthor
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Albert SyelesName of Band or Artist
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Project Type:Film Score
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Length:11 minutes 36 seconds
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Country of Origin:United States
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Student Project:No
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New Media Film FestivalLos Angeles
June 7, 2023
NOMINEE -Film Score -
New York Tri-State International Film FestivalNew York
January 4, 2023
HONORABLE MENTION - Original Score -
Las Vegas International Film & Screenwriting FestivalLas Vegas
November 29, 2022
WINNER Best Film - Musical Score -
Toronto's Fusion Awards - International Art Festival of FutureToronto
December 15, 2022
WINNER - Best Music Composer -
Munich New Wave Short Film FestivalMunich
November 3, 2022
WINNER - BEST FILM SCORE -
ROMA Short Film FestivalRome, Italy
October 4, 2022
WINNER - BEST FILM SCORE -
Cannes ShortsCannes, France
February 12, 2023
NOMINEE - Best Composer -
Madrid International Short Film FestivalMadrid
January 9, 2023
HONORABLE MENTION - Best Film Score -
International Motion Picture Festival of INDIAIndia
November 20, 2022
WINNER - Best Original Score -
Indo French International Film FestivalIndia
November 9, 2022
WINNER - Best Original Score -
Dreamz Catcher International Film FestivalIndia
November 24, 2022
WINNER - Best Film Score – Soundtrack -
Seoul International Short Film FestivalSeoul
October 6, 2022
HONORABLE MENTION - Best Film Score -
Fox International Film FestivalRome, Italy
October 28, 2022
HONORABEL MENTION - Best Original Song -
Zagreb International Film FestivalZagreb
December 2, 2022
HONORABLE MENTION - Best Composer -
Zagreb International Film FestivalZagreb
December 2, 2022
HONORABLE MENTION - Original Score -
Zagreb International Sound & Film Music Festival ISFMFZagreb
October 7, 2022
FINALIST Feature Film, Score -
Warsaw TopShot International Film FestivalWarszawa, Poland
January 10, 2023
Official Selection - Original Film Score -
Tokyo International Short Film FestivalTokyo
October 3, 2022
Official Selection - Film Score -
iHORRORdb Film FestivalMaglie, Italy
March 4, 2023
Official Selection - Original Score -
Star International Film FestivaleFirenze, Italy
June 2, 2023
Official Selection - Film Score -
Toronto Indie Filmmakers FestivalToronto, Canada
January 25, 2023
WINNER -Best Film Score -
King Film AwardsLondon
August 18, 2023
WINNER Best Original Score -
Reel Harmony Film and Script FestivalLondon
October 27, 2023
WINNER Best Original Score
Albert won "Best Music Composer" at Toronto's 2022 Fusion Awards, and was Nominated for that honor at the 2023 Cannes Shorts Film Festival.
His "Christabel" Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra has won eleven top Awards in 2022 and 2023 at competitive film festivals in London (2), Toronto (2), Las Vegas, Munich, Rome, Istanbul, and India (3).
It also achieved HONORABLE MENTION in New York, Seoul, Zagreb, at a second Rome event,
NOMINEE in Los Angeles, FINALIST in Samobor, Croatia,
and OFFICIAL SELECTION in Warsaw, Tokyo, Madrid, Montreal, as well as iHorror in Italy.
His "Quietude Rondo for Jazz Orchestra" won the award for Jazz Music at the 2023 World Music Festival, and Honorable Mention Best Film Score at the 2022 Tokyo Short Film Festival.
President and co-founder of Romanza - St. Augustine, Inc., and EpiCentre Alliance, both 501(C)(3) nonprofits.
Christabel falls under the spell of vampire Geraldine,
who inevitably has her horrid way.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote his dark, sexy, epic “Christabel” in 1797, a hundred years before Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and 19 years before Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Coleridge’s story is ripe for a modern screenplay with strong female leads:
• Christabel, who may be impetuous and naive, or rebellious and cunning,
• and Geraldine, who may be a vampire, or a misunderstood lesbian, or both.
SCRIPT OUTLINE:
Act 1: Christabel, who is haunted by the memory of her "sainted" mother, defiant with her father Sir Leoline, and engaged to an absent soldier, comes to the aid of Geraldine, an apparent rape victim, takes her home, and hides her in her father’s mansion.
But then, under Geraldine’s magic charm, her sympathy progresses to compulsion, then to subjugation. In 1797, Coleridge wrote a very explicit sex/horror scene, even by today’s standards, where "holy" Christabel finds herself helplessly in bed with her seductress.
Act 2: Soon, as Geraldine, the deceiver?, ingratiates herself to Sir Leoline, and implications escalate, Christabel struggles with Geraldine’s control, and with her own guilt.
Act 3: Coleridge never completed his epic, so the door is open to creative development and conclusion.
PERHAPS:
Geraldine also sleeps with Sir Leoline
Christabel enlists "Bracy the Bard" and her mother's clan, the Teutates, to exorcise Geraldine at a "sacred" nemeton.
Sir Leoline, Geraldine, and her father Sir Roland deVaux, all die.
In the end we realize that Geraldine’s only "sin" was being promiscuous and bisexual.
And that all along, Christabel has been the one with "fangs".
Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1797 Poem excerpt:
And thus the lofty lady spake--
`All they who live in the upper sky,
Do love you, holy Christabel !
And you love them, and for their sake
And for the good which me befell,
Even I in my degree will try,
Fair maiden, to requite you well.
But now unrobe yourself ; for I
Must pray, ere yet in bed I lie.'
Quoth Christabel, So let it be !
And as the lady bade, did she.
Her gentle limbs did she undress
And lay down in her loveliness.
But through her brain of weal and woe
So many thoughts moved to and fro,
That vain it were her lids to close ;
So half-way from the bed she rose,
And on her elbow did recline
To look at the lady Geraldine.
Beneath the lamp the lady bowed,
And slowly rolled her eyes around ;
Then drawing in her breath aloud,
Like one that shuddered, she unbound
The cincture from beneath her breast :
Her silken robe, and inner vest,
Dropt to her feet, and full in view,
Behold ! her bosom, and half her side-- --
A sight to dream of, not to tell !
O shield her ! shield sweet Christabel !
Yet Geraldine nor speaks nor stirs ;
Ah ! what a stricken look was hers !
Deep from within she seems half-way
To lift some weight with sick assay,
And eyes the maid and seeks delay ;
Then suddenly as one defied
Collects herself in scorn and pride,
And lay down by the Maiden's side !
And in her arms the maid she took..