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911 Pine St. Seattle, WA 98101

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911 Pine St. Seattle WA 98101

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Located smack downtown, the Paramount Theatre is a Seattle institution: just one step down from, say, WaMu Theater in size, some of the world's most well-respected musicians and performers grace its stage on a regular basis. Its grandiose interior is reminiscent of a bygone era, but with a brand new sign and an ever-impressive show schedule, the Paramount will continue to be a Seattle institution for a long time to come.








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  • muscur
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    | Corning (city), NY | 2 Reviews

    THIS THURSDAY- March 7, 2013: Silent Movie Series with Washington Center House Organist Dennis James / Douglas Fairbanks Night: MYSTERY OF THE LEAPING FISH plus WHEN THE CLOUDS ROLL BY

    WASHINGTON CENTER HOUSE ORGANIST: Longtime popular Puget Sound area theatre organist Dennis James will provide a live accompaniment for the screening. James' historically informed, stylistically correct, fully scored, rehearsed and synchronized silent film performances bring new enthusiasts by the thousands from throughout the region to this nearly forgotten form of entertainment. Says Kevin Boyer, the Washington Center's marketing director. "When Dennis James plays the organ, he's not just playing a tune on a keyboard, He does all the synchronized sound effects, too. He's getting a workout. You forget that it's a silent movie." He added, "The music meshes so well with the movie. It's a live performance."

    THE THEATRE: The Washington Center for the Performing Arts, South Puget Sound's largest performing arts facility, is committed to providing a wide variety of entertainment and cultural activities for the residents of five counties. Located in the heart of Washington State's capital city, The Center has become a community gathering place, providing a focus for the performing arts unique to the region. Opened in 1985, the facility has played host to thousands of events, with almost 2,000,000 people crossing its threshold. The Washington Center is actually the grandchild of the old Liberty Theater, a 1924 vaudeville house which stood on the same ground the Washington Center does today. The Liberty Theater was renovated and refurbished in 1948, becoming the Olympic Theater movie house. The Olympic was then taken down to just a few exterior walls in the early 1980’s, and completely rebuilt as the Washington Center. While the building's facade still retains elements of the 1924 architecture, the interior is contemporary and modern.

    THE ORGAN: In 1995, Andy Crow and Les Lehne finished the installation of a 3/23 Wurlitzer that included ranks from the original 2/9 Olympic Theatre instrument. The three-manual console (original theatre home unknown) has been completely rebuilt and now has a black satin finish. The instrument is installed in three chambers over the proscenium: Main, Solo, plus another (percussion) chamber in the middle. The organ is currently maintained in excellent shape by the professional organ restorers Ed and Patti Zollman, without any participation of the region's Puget Sound Theatre Organ Society organ team.

    When: 7 p.m. Thursday, March 7, 2013
    Where: The Washington Center for the Performing Arts, 512 Washington St. S.E., Olympia, WA
    Phone 360-753-8586

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    | Corning (city), NY | 2 Reviews

    Event Review: Silent Movie Mondays

    Dennis James, final Paramount Theatre House Organist (1998-2009) and creator of the Silent Movie Mondays series, announces his 2012-2013 professional touring performances:

    September 17, Cologne Philharmonie, Cologne, GERMANY
    Debut silent film performance-:Filmharmonia Duo accompany Fritz Lang's DIE FRAU IM MONDE a new historically-based commissioned organ and electronics score

    September 21, Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto, California
    Friday Night Silents autumn series: Laura LaPlante in CAT & THE CANARY

    September 30, Black-Eyed Susan Cafe, Angelica, New York
    Musica Curiosa Salon with Dennis James featuring the Theremin plus solo piano

    October 4, Winspear Center, Edmonton, CANADA
    Dennis James, organ soloist, with Edmonton Symphony Orchestra presentation: Lon Chaney in PHANTOM OF THE OPERA featuring Dennis James' arrangement for organ and orchestra of the 1925 G. Hinrichs and M. Winkler orchestral score

    October 5&6, Historic Coleman Theatre, Miami, Oklahoma
    Silent film program: Douglas Fairbanks in THE MARK OF ZORRO with historical-recreation compilation score by Dennis James

    October 12, Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto, California
    Friday Night Silents autumn series: Erich von Stroheim's FOOLISH
    WIVES with historical recreation styled improvised solo organ score by Dennis James

    October 19, Scottish Rite Cathedral, New Castle, Pennsylvania
    2nd Annual Halloween silent film performance: F. W. Murnau's NOSFERATU, A SYMPHONY OF TERROR with new solo organ compilation score by Dennis James incorporating surviving fragments of the Hans Erdmann original orchestra score

    October 20, Embassy Theatre, Fort Wayne, Indiana
    Annual Halloween silent film: Robert Weine's THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI with compilation score by Dennis James

    October 24, Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, University of Chicago, Illinois
    F. W. Murnau's FAUST accompanied by the Filmharmonia Duo

    October 26, I. U. Auditorium, Bloomington, Indiana
    Annual Halloween silent film event: F. W. Murnau's FAUST accompanied by the Filmharmonia Duo

    October 28, Proctors Theatre, Schenectady, New York
    Halloween silent film event: F. W. Murnau's FAUST accompanied by the Filmharmonia Duo

    October 29, Missouri Theatre, Columbia, Missouri
    Halloween silent film event: Lon Chaney in PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

    October 31, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
    Annual Halloween program: F. W. Murnau's FAUST accompanied by the Filmharmonia Duo

    November 2, Stanford Theatre, Palo Alto, California
    Friday Night Silents autumn series: Lon Chaney in PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

    November 24,25, C&C Hall, Austintown, Ohio
    Saturday evening- private glass music and theremin Musica Curiosa plus organ and film program / Sunday afternoon: Annual holiday open house- Wurlitzer organ performances with glass music and theremin Musica Curiosa elements

    December 31, Venango Museum, Oil City, Pennsylvania
    Annual First Night festival - Musica Curiosa program featuring theatre pipe organ plus piano, glass armonica and theremin and silent film comedy

    2013

    January 20, Arlington Theatre, Santa Barbara, California
    SBTOS silent film matinee (2pm) program: Buster Keaton in COPS plus Marion Davies in SHOW PEOPLE

    January 30, USC, Columbia, South Carolina
    International Wagner conference: Fritz Lang's SIEGFRIED with performance of original orchestral score by Otto Huppertz, transcribed for organ solo score by Dennis James

    February 1, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT.
    "Music from Monticello" touring instrumental program featuring Dennis James performing Mozart with a concert replica of Benjamin Franklin's armonica

    February 7, Washington Center, Olympia, Washington
    7th annual Silent Film Concerts series: Louise Brooks in PANDORA'S BOX

    February 9, Overture Center, Madison, Wisconsin
    Annual 'Duck Soup Cinema' variety show appearances: Willis H. O'Brien's THE LOST WORLD

    February 10, Al Ringling Theatre, Baraboo, Wisconsin
    Theatre organ with silent film: Buster Keaton in THE CAMERAMAN

    February 23, Trinity Hall, Spring Valley, California
    Annual San Diego Theatre Organ Society silent film program: Ramon Novarro in A STUDENT PRINCE IN OLD HEIDELBERG

    March 2&3, Historic Coleman Theatre, Miami, Oklahoma
    Annual silent film series presentations: Harold Lloyd in SPEEDY

    March 7, Washington Center, Olympia, Washington
    7th annual Silent Film Concerts series: Douglas Fairbanks in THE MYSTERY OF THE LEAPING FISH plus the feature film WHEN THE CLOUDS ROLL BY

    March 8. California Theatre, San Jose, California
    Annual Cinequest film festival silent film screening: Buster Keaton in COPS and Harold Lloyd in SAFETY LAST

    March 10, Segerstrom Concert Hall, Costa Mesa, California
    Pacific Symphony presents organ solo accompanied silent film event: Lon Chaney in PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

    March 16, Overture Center, Madison, Wisconsin
    Silent Film Concerts screening: F. W. Murnau's FAUST with scoring by the Filmharmonia Duo

    April 5&6, Kenyon Hall, West Seattle, Washington
    Variety programs with silent films and vocalist Connie Corrick

    April 7, City Museum, Wenatchee, Washington
    Variety program with silent films and vocalist Connie Corrick

    April 11, Washington Center, Olympia, Washington
    7th annual Silent Film Concerts series: Cecil B. DeMille's THE GODLESS GIRL

    April 16, Grosser Saal, Mozarteum, Salzburg, AUSTRIA
    Third annual Silent Film Concert series: Karl Valentin in DER SONDERLING

    May 18&19, Historic Coleman Theatre, Miami, Oklahoma
    3rd annual Musica Curiosa program featuring the WurliTzer theatre pipe organ plus unusual musical instruments, exotic repertoire, a guest performer plus silent film

    *June tba, Liberty Theatre, Sedalia, Missouri
    Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival Silent Film Concerts debut: Buster Keaton in THE GENERAL with piano plus sound effects scoring

    June 9, Missouri Theater, Columbia, Missouri
    Blind Boone Festival Silent Film Concerts debut: title tba

    June 12, Konzerthaus, Vienna, AUSTRIA
    Debut performance and recording with Donald Sosin of a newly commissioned score for Piano and Concert Organ to the Austrian national archive restoration of Conrad Veidt's THE HANDS OF ORLAC

    July 7, Nunda Historical Society, Nunda, NY
    Glass music instruments: "Glass-ical Musick" illustrated informance featuring the Seraphim, Benjamin Franklin's armonica and the Beyer Glass-cord

    August 5 to 13, Tanglewood Music Center, Boston, Massachusetts
    Performing the glass armoniuca part in the US premiere of George Benjamin's new opera, WRITTEN ON SKIN presented as part of the Tanglewood Music Center's 2013 Festival of Contemporary Music

    August 19, Balboa Park, San Diego, California
    25th annual outdoor silent film program at the Spreckels Organ Pavilion: Rudolph Valentino in THE EAGLE

    August 23, Lily Dale Assembly, Lily Dale, New York
    Glass music instruments: "Glass-ical Musick" illustrated informance featuring the Seraphim, Benjamin Franklin's armonica and the Beyer Glass-cord

    September 12, Lyceum Lecture Series at Kendal, Ithaca, New York
    Glass music instruments: "Glass-ical Musick" illustrated informance featuring the Seraphim, Benjamin Franklin's armonica and the Beyer Glass-cord

    BOOKING CONTACT:
    DENNIS JAMES | DIRECTOR
    SILENT FILM CONCERTS
    LECTURER, MASON GROSS SCHOOL OF ARTS, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
    CRYSTAL CITY MUSIC | PO BOX 786 | CORNING, NY 14830 USA

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    | Seattle, WA | 94 Reviews

    Seattle Weekly just had their Voracious Tasting and Food Awards at The Paramount. The venue was great!

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