Festival The Roaring Twenties: Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush (concert with film)

Organist Geerten Liefting accompanies Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush (1925)

During this screening of Charlie Chaplin's iconic film, organist Geerten Liefting will improvise a new soundtrack live. In The Gold Rush, Chaplin plays a prospector who tries his luck in Alaska. When he gets stuck in a cabin with two strangers during a snowstorm, this leads to hallucinatory but now legendary scenes.

Performer

Geerten Liefting, organ

Programme

Improvisation to The Gold Rush (1925)

Under the banner of The Roaring Twenties, the Orgelpark presents a weekend of five concerts reminiscent of the turbulent period in the arts a century ago, a time of relative political stability when anything seemed possible. A time when jazz and swing influences from America blended with European styles. Bertolt Brecht developed new forms of (musical) theater, Darius Milhaud wrote "La Creation du Monde," which fused jazz with traditional chamber music. Film and film music flourished, and American George Gershwin's star soared. Under the banner of The Roaring Twenties, we present you with a carefully curated selection of concerts that still echo those turbulent years in the arts.