Instrumentation
1110 - 111(Tenor)0 - perc(2): - pno(=cel) - strings(2.2.2.2.1)
Availability
Full score and parts for hire
Hire and Grand rights administered by Faber Music on behalf of Euston Music
Programme Notes
Starring: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston
Directors: Lewis Milestone, Ted Wilde
Production Company: The Harold Lloyd Corporation USA, 1927
Duration: 82 minutes
Film Print: B&W print struck from the original camera negative
available from Harold Lloyd Trust
(Film Speed: 24 frames per second)
Recorded for Video
Premiere with Davis's score: 1995, London
18 Players: 1110 - 1110 - perc(2) - pno(=cel) - strings (mm 2.2.2.2.1)
The Kid Brother is set in rural America. Lloyd plays the timid youngest son of a sheriff. A crooked medicine show arrives in town and is used by the sheriff's enemies to cause riot and mayhem. It is left to the kid brother to save the day, and in so doing he wins the love of the girl he has rescued, and the respect of his father and brothers.
The music of rural America is the source of Davis's inspiration for this delightful chamber score.