CHAPLIN’S MASTERPIECE @ 100 THE GOLD RUSH

Classic Film with Live Orchestra

Saturday, February 15, 2025 | 7:30pm

Sunday, February 16, 2025 | 3:00pm

Concert Duration: Approximately 100 minutes

The Granada Theatre

The Artists

Lucas Richman, guest conductor

Repertoire

With Chaplin’s enchanting blend of pantomime and music, his masterwork, “The Gold Rush,” has endured for a century. The Symphony performs Chaplin’s own score LIVE as the movie classic is projected on the big screen! Share the laughs with family, kids, or that special someone on Valentine’s Weekend.

GRAMMY award-winning conductor Lucas Richman has served as Music Director for the Bangor Symphony Orchestra since 2010 and held the position as Music Director for the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra from 2003-2015. Over the course of nearly four decades on the podium, he has garnered an international reputation for his graceful musical leadership in a diverse field of media. In concert halls, orchestral pits and recording studios around the world, Richman earns rave reviews for his artful collaborations with artists in both the classical and commercial music arenas.

He has appeared as guest conductor with numerous orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Pops, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Baltimore Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra and Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the Russian National Orchestra, the Oslo Philharmonic, the SWR Radio Orchestra of Kaiserslautern, the Iceland Symphony Orchestra, the Zhejiang Symphony Orchestra, the Israel Camerata Orchestra Jerusalem, the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional and the Zagreb Philharmonic. Mr. Richman received a GRAMMY Award (2011) in the category of Best Classical Crossover Album for having conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra on Christopher Tin’s classical/world fusion album, Calling All Dawns.

Mr. Richman’s numerous collaborations with film composers as their conductor has yielded recorded scores for such films as the Academy Award-nominated The Village (with violinist, Hilary Hahn), As Good As It Gets, Face/Off, Se7en, Breakdown, The Manchurian Candidate, White Noise, Flatliners and the recent Marvel Universe release, Madame Web; in 2010, John Williams invited him to lead the three-month national summer tour of Star Wars in Concert.

Also an accomplished composer, Mr. Richman has had his music performed by over two hundred orchestras across the United States including the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Pops and the symphonies of Detroit, Atlanta, New Jersey and Houston. He has fulfilled commissions for numerous organizations including the Pittsburgh Symphony, Knoxville Symphony, Bangor Symphony, Johnstown Symphony, the Debussy Trio, the Seattle Chamber Music Society and the Organ Artists Series of Pittsburgh. Mr. Richman’s Concerto for Violin: Paths to Dignity is the centerpiece for the Paths To Dignity Project (www.pathstodignity.com) which was co-founded with Mitchell Newman for the purpose of inspiring homeless advocacy through music. For more information, visit www.lucasrichman.com.

Chaplin's Masterpiece @100 The Gold Rush