Charlie Chaplin didn’t have much to smile about as a child. He was born in 1889 to a pair of British music-hall performers, and his father abandoned the family shortly thereafter. Part of his youth ...

When a trombone player asked composer Elena Roussanova to write something fun, she responded with The Great Chaplin, an orchestral homage to silent film icon Charlie Chaplin. Smile along with the ...

With fifty minutes of original music, The Real Charlie Chaplin marks composer Robert Honstein's first foray into the world of film music. Each cue reflects the various sides of the dynamic ...

Last week at the San Francisco World’s Fair, the San Francisco Symphony, under Composer-Conductor Meredith Willson, played a work listed in the program as Prelude to The Great Dictator, by Charlie ...

Charlie Chaplin composed most of his own scores, beginning with CITY LIGHTS in 1931. He also returned to his earlier silent films and composed new scores for their rereleases. In this 2012 interview, ...

“A film score to life” is what guitarist and composer Marc Ribot calls his upcoming performance at the Dr. Phillips Center. The singular musician is set to play a solo interpretive soundtrack to ...

The ICO is celebrating the 100th anniversary of The Gold Rush, a 1925 American silent comedy film written, produced, and directed by Charles Chaplin, who also composed the original music and stars in ...