Pipe organist to accompany ‘Jekyll’

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

The 1920 silent film “Jekyll & Hyde,” with live pipe organ accompaniment by Juilliard-trained organist Dorothy Papadakos, will be screened at 4 p.m. Oct. 29 at Stambaugh Auditorium.

While the Halloween-season film is free to the public, tickets are required and can be obtained at the Stambaugh box office, 1000 Fifth Ave.; by phone at 330-259-0555; and at stambaughauditorium.com.

Based on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, the film follows Dr. Henry Jekyll, whose enthusiasm for science and his philanthropy made him an admired man.

After being criticized for his reluctance to experience the sensual side of life, he thought “Wouldn’t it be marvelous if the two natures in man could be separated.” He developed a potion that would do just that, creating the hideously evil creature whom he names Edward Hyde. Jekyll begins to live his double life, but it is not long before the personality of Hyde begins to dominate.

Dorothy Papadakos is a member of the seven-time Grammy Award-winning Paul Winter Consort. She came to international attention in 1990 as the first woman to be cathedral organist of St. John the Divine Cathedral in New York. She is known for her daring and imaginative improvisations as well as her scores for theater, film, television and ballet.

She has a bachelor’s degree from Barnard College/Columbia University and a master’s degree from the Juilliard School in New York.