Instrumentation

1(=picc).1(=ca).2.1 - 2110 - timps - perc(1): 2susp.cym/tgl/BD/tamb/SD/dinner bell/xyl/cyms/ratchet -pno - harp - single strings

Availability

Full score, parts and film print (35mm, DVD PAL, DVD NTSC, Digibeta PAL, Digibeta NTSC & BETA SP NTSC) for hire

Programme Notes

Starring: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance
Director: Charles Chaplin
Production Company: Mutual USA, 1917
Film Print: B&W print, DigiBeta and DVD available from Faber Music (Film Speed: c.20 frames per second)

A penniless but ingenious immigrant falls in love with a girl on a boat bound for America. On arrival in the Land of Liberty the lovers go their separate ways, but are reunited in a café and manage to outwit an aggressive waiter.

The Immigrant

Staatstheater (Cottbus, Brandenburg, Germany)

Philharmonisches Orchester des Staatstheaters Cottbus/Johannes Zurl