Charlie Chaplin didn’t have much to smile about as a child. He was born in 1889 to a pair of British music-hall performers, and his father abandoned the family shortly thereafter. Part of his youth ...

When a trombone player asked composer Elena Roussanova to write something fun, she responded with The Great Chaplin, an orchestral homage to silent film icon Charlie Chaplin. Smile along with the ...

Last week at the San Francisco World’s Fair, the San Francisco Symphony, under Composer-Conductor Meredith Willson, played a work listed in the program as Prelude to The Great Dictator, by Charlie ...

“A film score to life” is what guitarist and composer Marc Ribot calls his upcoming performance at the Dr. Phillips Center. The singular musician is set to play a solo interpretive soundtrack to ...

Across the United States, orchestras are programming more live performances of movie soundtracks in a bid for box office revenue. By Sopan Deb Enamored of stars like Charlie Chaplin, he matched ...