ON the Beat | Gilded Cinema, Gone Orchestral
What is a good cure for SBIFF hangover? One answer found its way into The Granada Theatre on Sunday afternoon, in the form of a “hair of the dog” RX. Neatly synced up with the finale of the 12-day SBIFF, the Santa Barbara Symphony (SBS) presented Charlie Chaplin’s masterpiece The Gold Rush, with live orchestral accompaniment. The results: pure sight and sound and physical comedy gold.
Chaplin himself recut and scored his original 1925 classic in 1942, and this version of the film and orchestral score was created only after recovering scenes thought lost and expanding of the orchestral score in 2007 by composer and conductor Timothy Brock. The score puts a personal touch on Chaplin’s versatile creative genius, which includes dazzling feats of physical comedy and gymnastic choreography, along with an underlying pathos and sense of atmosphere.
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