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The British Film Institute has announced that it is bringing Alfred Hitchcock's early, rarely seen, film masterpieces as an official part of the London 2012 Festival next summer, the finale of the Cultural Olympiad. In a series of spectacular oneoff events, the silent films will be accompanied by newly commissioned orchestral music scores from Nitin Sawhney, Tansy Davies and Daniel Cohen. Nitin Sawhney will write a new score for The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1926) to be performed by him with the London Symphony Orchestra, commissioned by independent film distributor Network Releasing in partnership with the BFI. Nitin said, 'This is a dream project for me. Bernard Herrmann is one of my great musical heroes. It would be honour enough to follow in Herrmann's footsteps but to actually score a film that precedes his musical genius is a wonderful opportunity...