Le Moyne college presents : Silent
Film and Music
Friday, October 12
7 p.m.
Palace Theatre
Tickets $15/$10 for students
and AARP members with
valid ID
Reception at 9:15 p.m., $10
GOLD RUSH (1925) by
Charlie Chaplin – 95 min, fiction – USA
Screened with an original score, commissioned by the Festival, by Italian composer Gian Luca Baldi and performed by members of the Society For New Music. Mr. Baldi will be present for a Q&A after
the performance.
Synopsis:
The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin) travels to the Yukon to take part in the Klondike Gold Rush. Bad weather strands him in a remote cabin with a prospector who has found a large gold deposit and an escaped criminal, after which they part ways, with the prospector and the fugitive fighting over the prospector’s claim, ending with the prospector receiving a blow to the head and the fugitive falling off a cliff to his death. The Tramp eventually finds himself in a gold rush town and takes a job looking after another prospector’s cabin. He falls in love with a lonely saloon girl, Georgia, who he mistakenly thinks has fallen in love with him. He soon finds himself waylaid by the prospector he met earlier, who has developed amnesia and needs the Tramp to help him find his claim. When we next see them they are on a steamer, two wealthy men headed for home. By chance, Georgia is also on the steamer and she and The Tramp plan to marry.
Gian-Luca
Baldi – (Bologna, Italy, 1961) is a composer, a writer, and a
composition professor since 1996 (in Bari Conservatory of Music
first, and, since 2012, in Castelfranco Veneto, Venice).
His catalogue lists more than fifty compositions:
symphonic and chamber works commissioned by
important Italian orchestras and Festivals (as Collegium Musicum, Orchestra della Provincia di Bari, Orchestra Filarmonia di Treviso, Cantiere d’Arte di Montepulciano), music for dance (he worked for many years
with American dancer and choreographer Teri Weikel), and music tales for theater. He is the author of five chamber operas (four of which has been published in elegant illustrated books with CD), two novels, and
many short stories. He has just finished a book on Harmony and Imagination: a research of a new way of thinking, teaching and learning
composition and ‘academic’ theory, inspired to Italian writer Gianni Rodari (A Grammar of Imaginary Harmony – Sketches and Interludes). In the world of music and film, he studied with Ennio Morricone, in summer 1995, and won the first prize in his class at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena. After this experience, he worked in three different
occasions with his father, the film director and producer, Gian Vittorio (for the documentary Memorie della resistenza (1995), for the film
Il temporale (1999), and more recently for Il cielo sopra di me), and with Vittorio Nevano, for the National Television (Rai).
Screened with an original score, commissioned by the Festival, by Italian composer Gian Luca Baldi and performed by members of the Society For New Music. Mr. Baldi will be present for a Q&A after
the performance.
Synopsis:
The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin) travels to the Yukon to take part in the Klondike Gold Rush. Bad weather strands him in a remote cabin with a prospector who has found a large gold deposit and an escaped criminal, after which they part ways, with the prospector and the fugitive fighting over the prospector’s claim, ending with the prospector receiving a blow to the head and the fugitive falling off a cliff to his death. The Tramp eventually finds himself in a gold rush town and takes a job looking after another prospector’s cabin. He falls in love with a lonely saloon girl, Georgia, who he mistakenly thinks has fallen in love with him. He soon finds himself waylaid by the prospector he met earlier, who has developed amnesia and needs the Tramp to help him find his claim. When we next see them they are on a steamer, two wealthy men headed for home. By chance, Georgia is also on the steamer and she and The Tramp plan to marry.
Gian-Luca
Baldi – (Bologna, Italy, 1961) is a composer, a writer, and a
composition professor since 1996 (in Bari Conservatory of Music
first, and, since 2012, in Castelfranco Veneto, Venice).His catalogue lists more than fifty compositions:
symphonic and chamber works commissioned by
important Italian orchestras and Festivals (as Collegium Musicum, Orchestra della Provincia di Bari, Orchestra Filarmonia di Treviso, Cantiere d’Arte di Montepulciano), music for dance (he worked for many years
with American dancer and choreographer Teri Weikel), and music tales for theater. He is the author of five chamber operas (four of which has been published in elegant illustrated books with CD), two novels, and
many short stories. He has just finished a book on Harmony and Imagination: a research of a new way of thinking, teaching and learning
composition and ‘academic’ theory, inspired to Italian writer Gianni Rodari (A Grammar of Imaginary Harmony – Sketches and Interludes). In the world of music and film, he studied with Ennio Morricone, in summer 1995, and won the first prize in his class at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena. After this experience, he worked in three different
occasions with his father, the film director and producer, Gian Vittorio (for the documentary Memorie della resistenza (1995), for the film
Il temporale (1999), and more recently for Il cielo sopra di me), and with Vittorio Nevano, for the National Television (Rai).
Friday, October 12
7 p.m.
Palace Theatre
Tickets $15/$10 for students
and AARP members with
valid ID
Reception at 9:15 p.m., $10
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