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The Arthur Zankel Music Center at Skidmore College will welcome legendary guitarist Marc Ribot for a live accompaniment to Charlie Chaplin’s 1921 silent film “The Kid” at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 28. Ribot’s delicate and, at times, haunting solo guitar score contemporizes Chaplin’s work as a relevant story about our era’s economic and social conditions. Ribot will also perform a short solo set before the film. Tickets go on sale to the public at 10 a.m. Friday, April 19.
Chaplin’s first full-length feature, “The Kid,” remains an expressive masterwork of silent cinema. In it, Chaplin stars as his lovable Tramp character, this time raising an orphan (a remarkable young Jackie Coogan) he has rescued from the streets. Chaplin and Coogan make a miraculous pair in this nimble marriage of sentiment and slapstick, a film that is, as its opening title card states, “a picture with a smile — and perhaps, a tear.” Today, where issues of inequality and empathy persist, the film serves as a poignant reminder of the importance of caring for the less fortunate and the power of human connection to overcoming adversity.
Ribot’s score was commissioned by the New York Guitar Festival and premiered in 2010 at Merkin Hall. In an interview with Flavorpill, Ribot said, "I did not use Charlie Chaplin’s score as a reference. I admire his score greatly, and his writing greatly, but I did not want to use that as a reference because my interest in this, as with everything else, comes from doing a particular reading. And my particular reading of this film is as a contemporary film.”
The event is presented by the Arthur Zankel Music Center with the generous support of Jimmy Zankel ’92 and the Zankel Music Fund. Tickets are available to the general public for $20 and at $5 for the Skidmore College community (students, faculty, staff, and alumni). Purchase online or call the box office at 518-580-5321 between 1 and 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday.
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815 N Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY, United States, New York 12866
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