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09 April 2024 Schio (Italy)
Charles Chaplin The Kid
Maud Nelissen, piano - Teatro Civico
duration: approximately 60 minutes without intermission
Among the many events that the Civic Theater has experienced we also find the experience of the cinema, which many people from Schledi still remember. With this first appointment of the Schio Musica review, cinema returns to inhabit the spaces of the Civic Theater and does so with a unique experience that combines viewing with listening. The Kid , Charlie Chaplin's first feature film from 1921, is screened and accompanied live by the notes of a piano, leading spectators to discover with new eyes a milestone in world cinema. The film tells of a single mother who abandons her newborn son, hoping to guarantee him a better future. However, a tramp takes care of her and decides to be her father. Five years later, while the urchin and the tramp fight not to be separated by public assistance, which wants to take the child to the orphanage, her mother is now a rich and successful woman, determined to find her son. The emotional intensity of the film is united and strengthened by the notes arranged and performed on the piano by Maud Nelissen, the only one authorized to perform the film's music in the world. An evening that will take the Civico back to the 1920s, when pianists or even entire orchestras accompanied the viewing of films before the advent of sound.
Maud Nelissen Maud Nelissen, Dutch composer and pianist, dedicated herself to creating music for silent films. You worked in Italy with Eric James, Charlie Chaplin's last musical arranger. She has performed solo, within ensembles and with orchestras for festivals and special events in Europe, the United States and Asia. She then founded the ensemble The Sprockets, specialized in the musical accompaniment of silent films. Among his film music written for orchestra we can remember those composed for the classic The Merry Widow – 1925 by Erich von Stroheim, with interpolations of themes from the famous operetta by Franz Léhar, and the music for Blonde Charm – 1928 with the diva Marion Davies.
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