Halloweeen Concert
Halloweeen Concert
—‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’ by Robert Wiene
Performers
Juan de la Rubia, organ
Program
Organ improvisation on the silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari by Robert Wiene (1920)
Details
In a new edition of the traditional Halloween Concert, the Palau de la Música will host for the first time the screening of the film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari by Robert Wiene, considered the quintessential work of German expressionist cinema. Based on this well-known film shot in 1920, the organist Juan de la Rubia will improvise live on the organ in the modernist hall to create a unique and singular soundtrack for all those spectators who wish to share Halloween night.
Expressionist cinema and the imposing sound of the organ
On the darkest night of the year, the Palau de la Música Catalana becomes an old screening room where we will enjoy one of the founding films of fantasy and horror cinema: The cabinet of Dr. Caligari by Robert Wiene (1920). It is a silent film classic, a standard expressionist film that has been very influential in the genre in the last hundred years. We can find his aesthetic mark in the cinema of Tim Burton, in the narrative of directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and in the shocking script turns of M. Night Shyamalan. Psychic vampires, mesmerism, unreal scenarios, mad doctors...
The Palau is transformed into the most special screening room you can imagine without ceasing to be a temple of music. This delicious filmic nightmare will be performed with the dazzling music of one of the best organ improvisers in the world: Juan de la Rubia. With great experience, in the Palau itself, to provide music for film screenings, he will surprise us with a range of motifs and twists from an enormous musical heritage.