20102011 SEASON GUIDE - Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
20102011 SEASON GUIDE - Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
20102011 SEASON GUIDE - Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra
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SOUNDBYTES<br />
Chaplin’s Modern Times<br />
THURSDAY, APRIL 14 I 8:00 PM<br />
- 32 - 2010 I 2011 <strong>SEASON</strong> <strong>GUIDE</strong><br />
“I go to a lot of movies, and I can't<br />
remember the last time I heard a<br />
paying audience actually applaud<br />
at the end of a film. But this one<br />
did. And the talk afterward in the<br />
aisles, the lobby and in line at the<br />
parking garage was genuinely<br />
excited; maybe a lot of these<br />
people hadn't seen much Chaplin<br />
before, or were simply very happy<br />
to find that the passage of time<br />
have not diminished the man's<br />
special genius.”<br />
– Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times<br />
There is no other movie experience like sitting in front of a large screen in a theatre,<br />
watching a silent film, listening to the movie score and then leaning forward in your<br />
seat only to realize that a 65-piece orchestra is performing all the music and sound<br />
effects! Charlie Chaplin’s classic film Modern Times (1936) is the pièce de résistance!<br />
Sound had come to the movies in 1927 but Chaplin resisted it, instead using music<br />
to express everything in the film. The only speaking in Modern Times comes through<br />
electronic devices (phonograph record; PA system) so as not to humanize person-toperson<br />
spoken contact, which is much of the story.<br />
Chaplin spent many hours in the recording studio getting the music exactly right,<br />
creating specific musical moments to fit the hundreds of physical motions on the<br />
screen. This is evident when the WSO performs this demanding music score live with<br />
the film!<br />
Modern Times marked the last screen appearance of the Little Tramp – the character<br />
which had brought Charlie Chaplin world fame, and who still remains the most<br />
universally recognized fictional image of a human being in the history of art.<br />
Charlie Chaplin: Modern Times (film with orchestra)<br />
Richard Lee, conductor