Who said that great comedians of the silent age were all men? Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Laurel and Hardy had a great female colleague, Mabel Normand (1892—1930), a queen of comedy and a trendsetter for female creativity in cinema. Normand has also been a screenwriter and director. This concert/film soirée is the meeting of artists: films by Normand accompanied live by piano music by female French Romantic authors like come Cécile Chaminade, Mel Bonis, and Louise Farrenc.
