Pro Musica virtuoso David Solem creates improvised accompaniment on the St. Francis Auditorium Frederick R. Haas pipe organ at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30. CourtesySFPM
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SANTA FE — This October, Pro Musica and the New Mexico Museum of Art collaborate to bring Santa Fe the ultimate Halloween experience. For the 1922 silent film, at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30, Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, Pro Musica virtuoso David Solem creates improvised accompaniment on the St. Francis Auditorium Frederick R. Haas pipe organ.
Nosferatu is a German adaptation of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula and is famous for its role in film history. Movie critic Kim Newman called Nosferatu, “a film that set the template for the genre of horror”.
This screening is preceded with a brief talk by local film critic David N. Meyer.
Solem has bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music from the Peabody Conservatory (Baltimore) where he studied organ, harpsichord, piano and flute. He has 30 years of experience in liturgical music and taught music at Loyola University in Chicago.
He is the assistant organist for Santa Fe’s First Presbyterian Church and plays keyboards of all kinds for Pro Musica, including baroque chest organ, double-manual French harpsichord, single-manual Flemish harpsichord, harmonium, the Reuters organ in St. Francis Auditorium, and the Hamburg Steinway in The Lensic. He is also a Jungian psychoanalyst in private practice in Santa Fe.
In addition to being a film critic, Meyer is a biographer, screenwriter and historian and professor of cinema studies at the Institute for American Indian Art. He is author of The 100 Best Films To Rent You’ve Never Heard Of (St. Martin’s Press), A Girl and A Gun: The Complete Guide to Film Noir (Avon Books), The Bee Gees: The Biography (Da Capo Books), and Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music. His writing on film, music and culture has appeared in The Sunday New York Times, Entertainment Weekly—where he inaugurated the Music Video Column—GLAMOUR, GQ, Men’s Journal, Wired, The Walrus, Noir Of The Week, The Rocket, The Boston Phoenix, The Boston Real Paper, Bicycling, and The Seattle Weekly.
Tickets are available at https://my.nmculture.org/32437/39222.
