Instrumentation

fl(=picc).ob.2 cl.bsn - 2110 - perc(1): tgl/tamb/cyms/sizz.cym/susp.cym/tam-t/SD/TD/BD/wdbl/pedal BD/tpl.bl - pno - string (1.1.1.1.1)

Availability

Score, parts and film print (35mm, DigiBeta PAL, DVD PAL & BETA SP NTSC) for hire

Programme Notes

Starring: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance
Director: Charles Chaplin
Production Company: Mutual USA, 1917
Film Print: 35mm B&W print, DigiBeta and DVD available from Faber Music (Film Speed: c.21 frames per second)

Easy Street introduces the tramp who, lured into a Street Mission by the hymns, reforms for the love of Edna and joins the police-force. He gasses the local bully with a bent lamp-post and becomes a hero. (The set was designed by Chaplin to recreate the south-London slums of his childhood.)

Easy Street

Cinema Excelsior (Brugg, Aargau, Switzerland)

Siggenthaler Jugendorchester/Marc Urech

Easy Street

Cinema Excelsior (Brugg, Aargau, Switzerland)

Siggenthaler Jugendorchester/Marc Urech

Easy Street

Cinema Excelsior (Brugg, Aargau, Switzerland)

Siggenthaler Jugendorchester/Marc Urech

Easy Street

* national première of Behind the Screen * performances shifted from May to Sep 2021 due to COVID restrictions

Cinema Excelsior (Brugg, Aargau, Switzerland)

Siggenthaler Jugendorchester/Marc Urech

Easy Street

Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznań, Poland)

Filharmonia Poznan/Frank Strobel