Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments with a Modern Score

This isn't a new idea -a classic silent movie shown with a modern score by well-known musicians. But I don't think it's been done before with the original Ten Commandments. Tonight there will be a presentation of Cecile B. DeMille's 1923 film, The Tem Commandments rescored by members of Flaming Lips and Los Lobos. From BoingBoing:

During Passover last month, I posted about The Ten Commandments, Cecil B. DeMille's 1923 epic silent film version of the biblical Exodus story (plus a related modern story that I never bothered to watch.) As part of tomorrow night's DAWN online celebration of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, Steven Drozd of the Flaming Lips, Steve Berlin of Los Lobos, and drummer Scott Amendola are premiering a far out new score for the film! Watch the excerpt above. Organized by the Jewish arts and culture organization Reboot, DAWN is sure to be a wild program of music, conversations, comedy, and performances. My pal and Boing Boing contributor David Katznelson, the head of Reboot, orchestrated the new Ten Commandments musical collaboration.

Rolling Stone also has an article about it. 

A landmark epic of Hollywood’s silent era, DeMille’s The Ten Commandments was separated into two parts, the first of which told the story of Moses and the Exodus from Egypt, culminating in the delivery of the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. The second, meanwhile, told a contemporary story about two brothers, one who lives his life by the Commandments, the other who doesn’t.

Drozd, Berlin and Amendola penned their new score for part one of the film. A preview clip features a mesmerizing and increasingly epic snippet of music that’s paired with the scene in which Pharaoh learns his firstborn son has been killed in the last of the 10 plagues of Egypt.