Bill Irwin Returns to The New School to Host Screening of Chaplin Film with Live Orchestra

The New School's College of Performing Arts welcomes the public to the fifth edition of (Un)Silent Film Night, a performance series in which The College of Performing Arts Theater Orchestra performs live music to classic silent films. Previous events in the series have drawn capacity crowds to the 400-seat Tishman Auditorium at The New School.

Under the baton of music director, trumpeter, and performance artist, Mark Gould, the orchestra, composed of students from Mannes School of Music and The New School's School of Jazz, will perform Charlie Chaplin's original score to his classic silent film, The Gold Rush (1925).

Legend of the stage, of television, and of comedy, Bill Irwin, will host the event.

For more information, visit:

https://events.newschool.edu/event/unsilent_film_night_the_gold_rush#.WLSsf28rLRY

About The Gold Rush

The Gold Rush is a 1925 American comedy film written, produced, and directed by Charlie Chaplin. The film stars Chaplin in his Little Tramp persona. The Gold Rush was a huge success in the US and worldwide. Chaplin proclaimed at the time of its release that this was the film for which he wanted to be remembered. (from Wikipedia)

About Bill Irwin

Bill Irwin (Host) has starred in many Broadway, Off-Broadway, and regional Theater Productions, including The Goat or Who is Sylvia, opposite Sally Field;Accidental Death of An Anarchist; 5-6-7-8 Dance!; Waiting For Godot; Scapin; The Tempest; Garden of Earthly Delights; Texts for Nothing; and many others.

Irwin starred on Broadway and London's West End in the revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, for which he won the 2005 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. The production had a national tour in 2007.

On TV, he has appeared on "Saturday Night Live," "The Tonight Show," "The Cosby Show," "3rd Rock From the Sun," "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," "Life on Mars" (U.S.), "Law & Order; SVU," HBO's "Bette Midler, Mondo Beyondo," CBS's "Northern Exposure," and, with great pride, "Sesame Street" in one of his most famous roles, Mr. Noodle. In Britain, he appeared on BBC's "Paul Daniels Magic Show." Irwin has also appeared in many film and teleVision Productions, including the PBS Great Performances telecasts "Bill Irwin Clown Prince" and "The Regard of Flight." Prior to Rachel Getting Married, Irwin appeared in such films as Popeye, Eight Men Out, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Igby Goes Down, Lady in the Water, Dark Matter, Raving, Across The Universe and others.

Irwin has won many awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts Choreographer's Fellowship, and Guggenheim, Fulbright and MacArthur Fellowships.

Mark Gould (Conductor)

Mark Gould is one of the best known orchestral musicians of his generation. He was principal trumpet of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra from 1974-2003 and has been on the faculty of The Juilliard School since 1982. Mr. Gould joined the faculty at Mannes School of Music in January of 2017.

Mr. Gould has been very active as a conductor and music director. He has conducted and performed as soloist with the Seattle Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Colorado Philharmonic, Buffalo Symphony, The Juilliard Wind Ensemble, The Waterloo Festival, The Caramoor Festival and the Vermont Mozart Festival Orchestra. In 2001, he was the conductor of the Juilliard Wind Ensemble in the recording "Shadowcatcher", on New World Records, which features the work of Juilliard composers, Eric Ewazen and William Schuman. More recently, in September 2004, he made his conducting debut with The Manhattan School of Music Wind Ensemble in a program of Stravinsky, Antheil and Frank Zappa. In 2005, he conducted the MSM wind ensemble in a program of Grainger, Ligeti, and Bernstein. In 2005, Mr. Gould was appointed as the music director of the Brass Band of Battle Creek, America's premiere brass band. He also founded and directs The Manhattan School of Music Brass Orchestra and co-founded/directs The Scranton Brass Orchestra.

About The College of Performing Arts and its three schools: The Mannes School of Music, The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, and The New School for Drama

The New School's College of Performing Arts (CoPA), formed in the fall of 2015, brings together Mannes School of Music, the iconic 100-year-old conservatory; the legendary New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, and the innovative and ground-breaking School of Drama. With each school contributing its unique culture of excellence, the College of Performing Arts creates opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaboration, innovative education, and world-class performances. As part of the formation of The College, Mannes has moved into the newly renovated Arnhold Hall in Greenwich Village, a state-of-the-art facility designed especially for the performing arts. Also housed in Arnhold Hall are The School of Jazz and the School of Drama's BFA program. As a part of The New School, students and faculty across the College of Performing Arts experience a supportive and rigorous environment with enhanced opportunities to collaborate with colleagues in a wide array of disciplines, from the visual arts and fashion design, to the social sciences, to public policy and advocacy, and more. CoPA has over 900 degree and diploma seeking students, including a variety of programs at the undergraduate and graduate level, as well as Mannes Prep, a pre-college program with 400 students.

About the New School

Imagine a university where scholars, artists, and designers find the support they need to challenge convention and fearlessly create positive change in the world. Imagine a community where walls between disciplines are dissolved, so journalists collaborate with designers, architects with social researchers, media specialists with activists, poets with musicians. Imagine an intellectual and creative haven that never has and never will settle for status quo. In 1919, a few great minds imagined a school that would rethink the purpose of higher learning. The New School was the result. Today, it is the only comprehensive university housing a world-famous design school, a premier liberal arts college, a renowned performing arts college, a legendary social research school, and many more schools and programs designed for students of every age and stage of life. No other university offers a more creatively inspired, rigorously relevant education. Their academic centers in New York City, Paris, Shanghai, and Mumbai offer more than 10,000 students more than 135 undergraduate and graduate degree programs.