Charlie Chaplin (1951)

Record Details:

Title:
Charlie Chaplin
Date:
1951
Publisher:
New York : Henry Schuman, Inc.
Volume:
Charlie Chaplin
Leaf #:
000325
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
{"Media History Digital Library","Richard Koszarski","Jeff Joseph"}
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 21, 2024
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Chaplin as a composer 241 rade," all had orchestras traveling with them, playing scores as carefully worked out as "City Lights." By strict musical standards Chaplin's score may not equal those of Virgil Thompson, Max Steiner, Georges Auric, or William Walton. Thompson's scoring for "The River" and "Louisiana Story," with extremely clever arrangements of old folk tunes, is far more sophisticated and intellectual. Nor does Chaplin possess the virtuosity and present grandiose manner of Steiner, where too often sheer bombast attempts to make up for the emotional vacuity in the picture itself. But who, better than Chaplin, could point up musically the tragi-comic adventures of the tramp character he himself created?