Sponsored by Bahl & Gaynor Investment Council, The Friends of Music Hall presents our popular silent film concert series featuring master organist Clark Wilson mastering the Albee Theatre Mighty Wurlitzer organ in Music Hall Ballroom.
Sponsored by Bahl & Gaynor Investment Council, The Friends of Music Hall presents our popular silent film concert series featuring master organist Clark Wilson mastering the Albee Theatre Mighty Wurlitzer organ in Music Hall Ballroom while screening five short films featuring Laurel and Hardy.
Laurel and Hardy were a British-American comedy duo during the early Classical Hollywood of American cinema, consisting of Englishman Stan Laurel (1890–1965) and American Oliver Hardy (1892–1957). Starting their career as a duo in the silent film era, they later successfully transitioned to “talkies”. From the late 1920s to the mid-1950s, they were internationally famous for their slapstick comedy, with Laurel playing the clumsy, childlike friend to Hardy's pompous bully.
Screening on April 13 are these favorites: That’s My Wife (1929), Leave ‘Em Laughing (1928), Putting Pants on Phillip (1927), Habeas Corpus (1928), and The Finishing Touch (1928).
Since 1980 organist Clark Wilson has been one of the most prominent and recognized scorers of silent photoplays in America. With his own pipe organ business, he is skilled as a tonal consultant and finisher of both theatre and classical pipe organs. A skilled arranger, he develops accurate and historic musical accompaniments as they were performed in major picture palaces — such as Cincinnati’s Albee Theater, the original home of Music Hall’s Mighty Wurlitzer — during the heyday of silent films in the 1920s.
Joe Horine, a film historian and university teacher of courses in Cinema History as well as the films of Hitchcock and Kubrick, will host the program and lead a Q & A after the screenings.
$32.00
$25.00 - Groups 40 or more
$24.00 - Groups 50 or more
Phone: (513) 621-2787
Email: ticketing@cincinnatiarts.org
2023/04/13 - 2023/04/13
Music Hall
1241 Elm Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202
Several parking options surround Music Hall. A 450-space underground garage at Washington Park is located directly across Elm Street from the front doors of venue. This convenient garage also has handicapped parking and elevators. A surface lot between Music Hall and Memorial Hall is accessible from Elm Street and Central Parkway. Convenient parking is also available at the Town Center Parking (CET) Garage on Central Parkway. Pay-on-entry parking is $10-$15 for special events at all nearby lots. For more information about parking at Music Hall, call (513) 744-3344.
Handicapped-Accessible Parking: There are several handicap-designated spots at the Washington Park Garage across the street from Music Hall, as well as at the surface lot located between Music Hall and Memorial Hall and in the Town Center (CET) Garage on Central Parkway. We recommend arriving early for the best parking. You may also drop off patrons in front of Music Hall on Elm Street and then park. If you require wheelchair assistance, please alert a security officer and they will contact a staff member to bring a wheelchair out to the curb and assist you to your seats.