The Marina del Rey Symphony conducted by maestro Frank Fetta performed Chaplin’s “The Kid”, live-to-picture, with a new score by Craig Safan in beautiful Burton Chace Park to an audience of 2,000.

Tuesday at Dallas City Performance Hall, the Dallas Chamber Symphony continued its highly commendable series of silent cinema from the 1920s accompanied by new, live music. This time around, one of the masterpieces of that era, Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid, met up with new music specially composed by Craig Safan (whose long list of credits includes Stand and Deliver and The Last Starfighter, to name only …