Walt Disney Concert Hall Features Clark Wilson Concert, 10/31

Halloween Night at the Walt Disney Concert Hall features the classic 1920 silent film, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, starring John Barrymore in the dual role.   The projection of the silent movie will be accompanied by a live soundtrack performed by organist Clark Wilson on Halloween, Sunday, October 31 at 7:30PM.

Based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a tale of a man at his best and his worst.  Doctor Henry Jekyll has a penchant for science and is revered for his philanthropic care of the poor and destitute. One evening, he is challenged by Sir George Carew to experience more of life for himself.  Upon meeting a young dancer, Gina, Jekyll becomes obsessed with developing a way to tap into his primal side.  After extensive work in his laboratory, he devises a formula that allows him to alternate between two completely different personalities, his own and that of a murderous alter-ego named Hyde. It is not long before the personality of Hyde begins to dominate Jekyll's affairs, eventually ending in the demise of the beloved Dr. Jekyll.
 
Accompanying John Barrymore's landmark performance as both Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is organist Clark Wilson, who returns to the Walt Disney Concert Hall for the seventh straight year. Wilson's organ theatrics give a pulse to these silent films intensifying the suspenseful and chilling twists.  Based in Ohio, Wilson is renowned throughout the country and in demand as a tonal consultant and finisher of both theater and classical pipe organs.  He has received both the Technician of the Year and Organist of the Year awards from the American Theatre Organ Society, the only person to have done so, and his time is now nearly equally divided between concert and technical work.
 
For more information and complete artist biographies, please visit:  www.laphil.com
 
WHEN: Sunday, October 31 at 7:30 PM
 
WHERE: Walt Disney CONCERT HALL
111 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles
 
 
ORGAN SERIES AT Walt Disney CONCERT HALL:
 
The Walt Disney CONCERT HALL ORGAN was inaugurated at the opening of the Walt Disney Concert Hall in fall of 2004.  Designed by Frank Gehry and Manuel Rosales of Rosales Organ Builders, the Walt Disney Concert Hall organ contains pipes ranging in size from a pencil to a telephone pole, and is voiced with a wide dynamic range from pianississimo to a breathtaking fortissimo.  The specially curved wood façade pipes were made by Glatter-Götz Orgelbau of solid, vertical grain Douglas fir and consist of the Violone and Bassoon basses. Behind the facade are three levels of pipes, including metal pipes made of tin and lead alloys and wood pipes made of Norwegian pine. 
 
Tickets are now on sale at LAPhil.com, the Walt Disney Concert Hall Box Office, via credit card phone order at 323.850.2000, or by calling Ticketmaster at 800.745.3000.  Tickets can also be purchased at all Ticketmaster outlets. For more information, please call 323.850.2000. 

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