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15 February 2025 Bonn (Germany)
Modern Times
Beethoven Orchester conducted by Frank Strobel - Telekom Forum Bonn
Program Info: Charles Chaplin 1889—1977 - Modern Times, Silent films and live music
In the film Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin sends his most famous character, his alter ego, on a big journey across the screen for the last time: the Tramp. With a razor-sharp moustache, with feet hopelessly pointed outwards, with big eyes and a big heart. As guinea pigs, as playthings of the powers in an industrialised, mechanised, dehumanised world. We see him at demonstrations, on roller skates, in a variety of jobs and, in one of the iconic scenes in film history, in a work of giant gears. And we hear the Tramp – in his last film – for the first time. In 1936, the cinema public heard Charlie Chaplin's voice for the first time, singing a wonderful nonsense song in a restaurant in this strange hybrid of silent and sound film. In general: Modern Times is not only a profound search for happiness and a cinematic masterpiece, but also an acoustic delight. The score, composed by Chaplin himself, makes the film appear in our mind's eye once we have seen it. And in order to make this happiness possible for as many people as possible, we are playing Charlie Chaplin's masterpiece in the Telekom Forum, conducted by Frank Strobel, one of the most important silent film specialists of our time.
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