This Sunday night on “The Lost Chord,” we’ll travel back in time to pretend the Academy Awards never happened, by revisiting the silent era and enjoying concert music inspired by some of its biggest icons – including Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and Rudolph Valentino.
We’ll hear “Valentino Dances” by Dominick Argento, “Cinema” by Louis Aubert, and a selection from the “Seven Stars Symphony” by Charles Koechlin. As a bonus, the hour will conclude with a charming encore, in the form of one Chaplin’s own compositions.
The personalities are still big – it’s the pictures that got small, on “Silents Are Golden,” this Sunday night at 10:00 EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.