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Halloween Organ, Film & Music

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Fri / Oct 31, 2025 - 8:00PM

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About this Performance

Clark Wilson transports us back to 15th-century Paris with a spine-tingling organ accompaniment to The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Lon Chaney stars as Quasimodo in the 1923 silent film remembered as Universal Studio’s smash-hit “Super Jewel”—the company’s largest, most expensive, and top-priority production at the time.

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The Walt Disney Concert Hall Organ

Architect Frank Gehry devoted a great deal of time to the design. He worked with Los Angeles organ designer and builder Manuel J. Rosales to create something different from a typical church organ with its rows and rows of metal tubes. Gehry’s initial designs included pipes hanging from the ceiling and the organist in a cage halfway up the wall. Rosales found the concepts fanciful and marvelous, but he knew there was no way they would lead to the construction of a practical musical instrument.

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Artist Frank Gehry and organ builder Manuel Rosales collaborated on the visual design of the organ.