Classic horror flick "Nosferatu" screens with live organ accompaniment

October 27, 11:48 AMInglewood Cultural Events ExaminerBrittany A. Gash

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Film Screening of Nosferatu with Live Organ Accompaniment with LA Phil

The 1920s German silent film “Nosferatu,” directed by F.W. Murnau and starring Max Schreck as the infamous Count Orlock, has contributed to the increasingly popular image of the elusive and mysterious vampire.  Despite the film’s early controversy as a plagiarized version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and the subsequent suing by the Stoker Estate for copyright infringement, “Nosferatu” gave birth to a new vision of the vampire.  Unlike the suave and handsome Dracula, Count Orlock was a frightening and lonely character.  “Nosferatu” was also the first vampire film to spawn the concept of a vampire being physically harmed by sunlight.

The Los Angeles Philharmonic will present a special Halloween screening of this classic horror flick, with a live organ accompaniment by organist Clark Wilson, at the Walt Disney Concert Hall on Oct. 31^st at 8:00 p.m.

Winner of the Technician of the Year and Organist of the Year awards from the America Theatre Organ Society, Wilson returns for his sixth consecutive year at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.  He will be playing his own improvised score with the film.

The Walt Disney Concert Hall’s Organ is truly spectacular; having been designed by Frank Gehry and Manuel Rosales of Rosales Organ Builders in 2004.  The organ has specially curved wood façade pipes of solid, vertical grain Douglas fir, made by Glatter-Gotz Orgelbau.  Behind the façade are three levels of pipes made of tin, lead alloys and Norwegian pine wood.

For more info: visit www.laphil.com.