Instrumentation

picc.ca.cl.bcl.bsn - 2110 - perc(1): drum kit: ped BD/SD/tom-t/small susp.cym/2 wdbl/cowbell/small ratchet/tgl/tamb/small bell/flexatone/cyms/BD/2 timp/glsp - pno - strings (11111)

Availability

Score, parts and film print (35mm, DVD PAL & Digibeta PAL) for hire

Programme Notes

Producer/Director/Screenplay: Charles Chaplin
Production Company: Mutual USA, 1916
Film Print: 35mm B&W print, DigiBeta and DVD available from Faber Music
 
A rather dapper Charlie is the assistant shopkeeper in a family run pawn shop.  He foils a scam, and gets the girl.  The routine of mending a clock to the Haydn 'Clock' Symphony by disembowelling it is iconic.  The score has an East European tang to it.
 
 
 

The Pawn Shop

Cinémathèque de la Ville de Luxembourg (Luxembourg, Luxembourg)

Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg/Carl Davis CBE

The Pawn Shop

Royal and Derngate (Northampton, United Kingdom)

Carl Davis CBE/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

The Pawn Shop

Summer Music on the Shannon (festival)

Kilrush Community School (Kilrush, Co. Clare, Ireland)

Carl Davis CBE

The Pawn Shop

Summer Music on the Shannon (festival)

University Concert Hall, University of Limerick (Limerick, Ireland)

Carl Davis CBE

The Pawn Shop

Nikolaisaal (Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany)

Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg/Helmut Imig