Screening of the 1923 silent film starring Lon Chaney,
with live music for choir and organ

Saturday, October 29, 2011 at 8pm
St George's Anglican Church, Guelph, Ontario

Robert Cooper, guest conductor
Edward Moroney, organ and piano

Conductor Robert Cooper has selected a mélange of dramatic choral music to portray Quasimodo's turbulent emotional struggles during the Paris revolution.

Edward Moroney's sensational improvisations on the organ, sounding at the front and the back of the church, will immerse you in this classic of the silver screen.

PodiumTalk! with Joan Nicks
Filmmaking and Hollywood Style in the Jazz Age
before performance at 7 pm

CLICK HERE to download a .pdf version of the evening's programme.

Film historian and popular culture critic Joan Nicks presents an illustrated pre-show talk, tracing the visual and narrative influences that shaped The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923).

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