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Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator

Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator

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Charlie Chaplin’s first talkie, The Great Dictator was nominated for five Oscars, including one for Best Original Score. In the first North American screening of its remastered version, this half-satirical, half-comedic film delivers a message of hope and tolerance through the incredible story of a humble Jewish barber and a look-alike dictator based on Hitler. The original soundtrack by Chaplin and Meredith Willson was restored by the guest conductor for the occasion, Timothy Brock.

Artists

Timothy Brock, conductor

Programme

The Great Dictator (1940, Charlie Chaplin)

Duration: 125 min without intermission

Language: English with subtitles in French

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Wednesday, October 18 – 7:30 p.m.

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Post-concert Talk on Wednesday, October 18 at 9:30 p.m. and Thursday, October 19 at 12:30 p.m.

Guest: Timothy Brock, conductor

Host: Kelly Rice

Duration : 30 minutes

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TIMOTHY BROCK, CONDUCTOR

As a conductor, Timothy Brock specializes in concert works of the early 20th century and live performances of silent film music. As a silent-film score preservationist, his work includes the restoration of Shostakovich's New Babylon (1929), Satie's Entr'acte (1924) and Saint-Saëns’ The Assassination of the Duke of Guise. In 1998 he began his long-standing collaboration with the Charles Chaplin family as their score preservationist and is a leading authority on Chaplin the composer. He has made 13 critical editions of his scores including Modern Times, City Lights, The Gold Rush, and The Kid. In July 2023, Brock conducted the world premiere of The Great Dictator, to a score not heard live since 1940. As a composer, he has written over 40 silent film scores, including those for Buster Keaton's The General and Steamboat Bill Jr., F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu, and Fritz Lang's Frau im mond. In May 2022, his score to Erich von Stroheim's Foolish Wives was given its premiere in San Francisco.
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This presentation is made possible thanks to the Gouvernement du Québec program Plan de relance économique du milieu culturel.