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David Selfe
Available in New Zealand
Based in: Norsewood, Manawatu-Wanganui
Based in: Norsewood, Manawatu-Wanganui
5.0 (1 review)
From: $300
From: $300
Band Leader - Working with a small team.
Orchestral Musician - Working with a large 8 to 28 piece orchestra.
Musical Director - Working with a Cabaret.
I am the guy, from the West End of London theatre scene. As a reading musician with over 10,000 shows played!... (more)
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David Selfe - Big Band / Orchestra - Norsewood, Manawatu-Wanganui
Event Type: Cruise / Resort / Festival
29th September 2025
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‘Silent screen, living sound’
Performance at Shambles Theatre, 20
September 2025, reviewed by Shamus Baker
Audiences were treated to an invigorating
immersion into the past on Saturday 20
September at Shambles Theatre, where pianist
David Selfe and percussionist Jeremy Fitzsimons
provided an ingenious musical accompaniment
to two silent films of the great Charlie Chaplin, A
Dog’s Life (1918) and The Pawn Shop (1916). All
music was composed by Selfe, and adapted by
Fitzsimons for their duo.
While this is not the place for a synopsis of either
film, both involved Chaplin’s iconic Little Tramp
persona in various scenarios of mayhem, trickery
and social faux pas, with his eventual triumph occurring against both the odds of ordinary logic
and his own relentlessly inventive disdain for normal codes of behaviour – to great comic
effect.
Both musicians did themselves great credit in a performance situation that stretched
concentration and agility to an unusual degree ....
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