“Buck up — never say die! We’ll get along!” Modern Times by Chalie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times was performed at the Herzliya Performing Arts Center with a live score by the Revolution Orchestra, turning the silent film into a tightly synchronised cinematic–musical experience under conductor Roi Oppenheim. The performance was framed as more than a screening, becoming a reflection on technology, modernity, and the fragile place of human expression in rapidly changing systems. The event also invited a broader comparison between the industrial upheavals of Chaplin’s era and today’s AI-driven transformation of creativity, labor, and artistic authorship.

Yesterday I went to see at the Herzliya Performing Arts Center the performance of the movie Modern Times by Charlie Chaplin with a live performance of the original Chaplin-written soundtrack by the Revolution Orchestra on stage. The film was screened on a giant screen with a live orchestral score. I was immediately drawn into a rare cinematic–musical experience that blended silent-era cinema with rich, precise live instrumentation, turning the hall into something between a concert and a time capsule.

The orchestra was remarkably precise throughout, matching every gesture, cut, and emotional shift on screen........

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