Join us as the UCLA Philharmonia opens its 2023-24 season with a special Halloween program. Come in costume (the orchestra and conductor will!) and experience a spectacular night of eerie music, silent films accompanied by the Royce Hall organ and other scary surprises!
Christoph Bull, organ
Michelle Rice, narrator
Yuki Izumihara, animation design
Neal Stulberg, conductor
Concert will be performed without intermission from 7:30-9:00 p.m.
Program:
Toccata and Fugue in D minor BWV 565
J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Organ solo by Christoph Bull
“Introduction” and “The Duel and Death of Hamlet” from "Hamlet Suite" Op. 116a (1964)
Dimitri Shostakovich
"Le Chasseur Maudit” ("The Cursed Hunter”) (1883)
César Franck (1822-1890)
"Koko’s Haunted House” (1926) (silent film by Dave Fleischer; Fleischer Studios)
Improvised organ solo accompaniment by Christoph Bull
"Begleitungsmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene: Drohende Gefahr; Angst; Katastrophe” ("Accompaniment to a Film Scene: Threatening Danger; Fear; Catastrophe”) Op. 34 (1929-30)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951)
"The Noon Witch" Op. 108
Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
"Koko’s Earth Control" (1928) (silent film by Dave Fleischer; Fleischer Studios)
Improvised organ solo accompaniment by Christoph Bull; no orchestra
Suite from the film "Taste the Blood of Dracula" (1970)
James Bernard (1925-2001)
Etching by Lavalée after J. Gamelin, 1778
This event is made possible in part by the David and Irmgard Dobrow Fund. Classical music was a passion of the Dobrows, who established a generous endowment at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music to make programs like this possible. We are proud to celebrate this program as part of the 2023 - 24 Dobrow Series.