http://www.festivaldetorroella.com/2007/concert.php?i=en&codi=61
Saturday, 11 August, 2007 22:30 h.
Place: Plaça de la Vila
The prophetic cinema of Chaplin:
Modern Times (USA, 1936, 89 minutes)
Film director, production and screenplay by Charles Chaplin
Music by Charles Chaplin and Leo Daniderff
Music arranged for modern orchestra by Timothy Brock
Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra
Carl Davis, conductor
Before the film:
Percussions de Barcelona
Agustí Charles: * Engine (First performance of a work for a percussionists
quartet)
Music has been present in the cinema since the early times when the films
were accompanied by a live performance, usually a piano. I he hero of the
film, a steelworker who loses his sanity as a result of the hectic speed at
which he has to work, is accompanied today by an orchestra of renown, which
begins the concert with the first performance of a work by Agustí Charles.
*First performance. Work commissioned by the Fundació Caixa Catalunya.
Torroella de Montgrí Festival Production.
Prices
Price A: 35.00 ?
Price B: 35.00 ?
Price C: 22.00 ?
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