40 years ago Austin filmmaker Dwight Adair shot his film, Tributaries, in the Hill Country for his graduate school thesis. He then met his film editor wife, Sandra Adair, raised a family, and worked as a dialect coach and director in Los Angeles, while the film prints languished in dusty old storage boxes from garage to garage. 

Dwight Adair himself calls Tributaries: "...vintage docu-fiction romanticism suffused with poetry and an original score performed by a six-piece chamber ensemble." It is an 18-minute short, shot on 16 mm film. He met Sam Lipman through Sam's father, an old friend of his, and asked him to watch the raw footage of his forty year-old film.

Sam Lipman is a student at the UT Butler School and composer of the live score for Tributaries. He says of his first viewing of the film, "There was nothing to not love about it." He says the film has a lyrical and romantic property to it, which matches well with his composing style.

With the University of Texas Chamber Ensemble performing the live score by Sam Lipman, Tributaries will enjoy its premiere this Saturday, April 25th at 1:30 PM on the UT Campus, N.E. corner, Music Recital Hall, Rm 2.608 * Admission is free.

See the event poster.