Classical Music Concerts Planned

Classical music concerts will be held at 8 p.m. Saturday at Cal Lutheran in Thousand Oaks and at Moorpark College.

In Thousand Oaks, the Cal Lutheran Symphony will perform the score to the Douglas Fairbanks Sr. silent film “The Black Pirate” as a digitally reconstructed print of the movie is shown.

The 1926 classic is one of the earliest color productions and contains what critics have called one of the most famous of all movie stunts: Fairbanks’ ride down the ship’s sail on a knife.

Film music historian Robert Israel will speak about silent film music and conduct the performance.

The symphony will also perform Mussorgsky’s “Night on Bald Mountain”--made famous by Disney’s animated classic “Fantasia”--to open the concert.

Admission is free to the show in the Samuelson Chapel, although donations are welcome.

In Moorpark, the Moorpark College Wind Ensemble and Chamber Ensembles will perform pieces that include Sergei Prokofiev’s “Peter and the Wolf” and Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story.”

General admission is $5 for the performance at the Moorpark College Performing Arts Center, 7075 Campus Road.

For reservations, call 378-1485.