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wistiti Oscar® Winner	City Lights is playing on TV right now. I only caught the end of the opening credits, but at the bottom of one of the credits pages could be read "Music Direction: Alfred Newman" Anyone have more info on that? Or did I misread something? Did Newman conduct the City Lights score?
posted 10-21-2001 07:58 PM PT (US)

Lou Goldberg Oscar® Winner	To my knowledge, Newman not only conducted the score but helped arrange and orchestrate and transcribe it from Chaplin's notes. David Raksin did those chores on Modern Times, but as I recall that score too was conducted by Newman.
posted 10-21-2001 08:14 PM PT (US)

Marian Schedenig Oscar® Winner	How is the Modern Times score, BTW? They're going to do a screening with live music next year in Vienna, and I wonder if I should get a ticket? NP: Kimberly (Basil Poledouris)
posted 10-22-2001 06:25 AM PT (US)

wistiti Oscar® Winner	Thanks Lou.
posted 10-22-2001 07:17 AM PT (US)

Ken S Oscar® Winner	Marian, GET YOUR TICKET IMMEDIATELY !!! MODERN TIMES is not only Chaplin's BEST movie, but it also features the VERY BEST score to any Chaplin-movie. I just love those factory-scenes with all the beautifully wild music, and also "Smile" which is the most greatest piece of music Chaplin ever wrote. Highly recommended KEN
posted 10-22-2001 05:30 PM PT (US)

Lou Goldberg Oscar® Winner	Gotta chime in with Ken S Modern Times is a very funny film and it has neat scoring by Chaplin as well. Seeing it projected with an audience should be a really good experience.
posted 10-23-2001 12:31 AM PT (US)

Marian Schedenig Oscar® Winner	Ok! NP: The Final Conflict, Deluxe Edition (Jerry Goldsmith)
posted 10-23-2001 06:11 AM PT (US)

Nicolai P. Zwar Oscar® Winner	Vienna... that's somewhere in Austria. I think that's where they have them kangoroos, woollybut trees, those fuzzy little koalas eating eucalyptus leaves, and Harry Lime sneaking around in the sewers while somebody is performing zither music. What an odd little country, what an odd little town. To go there in order to watch a Chaplin movie seems ust like the right thing to do. When is that screening? [Message edited by Nicolai P. Zwar on 10-23-2001]
posted 10-23-2001 07:46 AM PT (US)

Marian Schedenig Oscar® Winner	April 25, 2002: The Wiener Kammerorchester, conducted by Timothy Brock. For more information, check out the website of the Wiener Konzerthaus. If you're seriously thinking about attending, let me know if you're coming! (If not, it's a yearly festival, and so far, the one constant has been that they always included Modern Times). I'm also going to attend a screening of Murnau's Nosferatu with Wolfgang Mitterer performing the premiere of his organ score, on November 11 (this year). NP: Anton Bruckner: Symphony #2 (National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Georg Tintner)
posted 10-23-2001 09:45 AM PT (US)

Nicolai P. Zwar Oscar® Winner	Thanks for the link, Marian. Don't know yet whether I will have the time to spend and the money to blow to go down to Vienna just for a movie screening next year, but the idea is odd enough to pull through, and I jotted down the date just in case.
posted 10-24-2001 11:38 AM PT (US)

Marian Schedenig Oscar® Winner	Cool! NP: Michael Nyman Live
posted 10-24-2001 11:58 AM PT (US)

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