Silent Night: Music for the Silent Screen

Celebrate the golden age of cinema with a live orchestral performance that pays homage to Charlie Chaplin's timeless 1921 classic, The Kid. Experience the emotional depth and whimsical charm of this silent film as compositions by Paul Slavens enhance the visual storytelling, creating a powerful connection between music and emotion. Let the melodies transport you back to the heartwarming world of Chaplin's creativity.

The Kid
Charles Chaplin, 1921
NR; 68 minutes

TCU New Music Ensemble Concert

The New Music Ensemble program at TCU focuses on performing repertoire that ranges from early 20th century classic works to newly-written music by contemporary composers. This performance is free and open to the public.

Program

Five Preludes on the Name of Olga Samaroff-Stokowski (1917)
No. 5: Fraicheur, Carlos Salzedo (1885 – 1961)
Unrest: I (2021), Brandee Younger (b. 1983)
Lettre d'amour (2021), Megan Metheney (b. 1979)
Kela Walton, harp

Letitia Huckaby, Marcellis Perkins, and Johnica Rivers

The Exhibition Lecture Series is a dynamic new program featuring curators and artists from the Modern’s special exhibitions and permanent collection. This series provides a rare opportunity to explore the creative processes, curatorial strategies, and artistic visions that shape modern and contemporary art. The Exhibition Lecture Series is a free program open to the public.

San San Trilogy and Nova Heat

Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe’s San San Universe is partially based on a futurist theory put forth by Herman Kahn and Anthony J. Weiner in their book The Year 2000 (1967), which speculated that San Diego and San Francisco would merge into one giant metropolis by the turn of the twenty-first century. Although this prediction never came to pass, the theory is foundational to Freeman and Lowe’s creation: an adjacent world that parallels modern-day reality and illuminates our society’s relationships to technology, music, drugs, subcultures, and politics.

Bird

“If ever a film puts its arm round a kid and says: ‘Don’t worry, I’ve got you’, that’s Bird and Bailey. She’s a character you feel [writer/director Andrea] Arnold would lie on railtracks to protect – and that’s a powerful, moving instinct to share.” —Dave Calhoun, Time Out

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