On December 4, 1935, the air on the MODERN TIMES recording stage was crackling with tension. Chaplin had already postponed... Read Story
Long before 76 trombones hit the counterpoint, Meredith Willson worked with Charlie Chaplin on the score for THE GREAT DICTATOR, receiving... Read Story
The date Chaplin met German composer Hanns Eisler varies. Eisler went into exile in 1933 after the Nazi Party banned... Read Story
In February 1916, John Philip Sousa’s band was in the middle of a standing engagement at the 5,200-seat Hippodrome in New York in... Read Story