There are a lot of Halloween events this weekend, but the most old-school has got to be the screening of “Nosferatu” with live pipe organ accompaniment.
The classic silent movie will be shown at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Stambaugh Auditorium, with organist Jay Spencer performing the score live on the venue’s massive pipe organ.
Released in 1922, “Nosferatu” is the story of Count Orlok, the gaunt and bat-faced vampire in eastern Europe who leaves his castle to spread death.
Max Schreck plays Orlok in one of the most iconic horror turns in big-screen history.
Spencer, the organist, is part of the arts scene in Canton. He has been a volunteer and the house pipe organist at the Canton Palace Theatre for over 35 years. He is also a featured organist for many silent film screenings in the region.
Seating is general admission, and tickets are $11 (fees included). Tickets can be purchased by phone at 330 259 9651, at the DeYor Performing Arts Center box office in downtown Youngstown or online. Click HERE.
Robert Rauschenberg, an experimental American artist, would have celebrated his 100th birthday Oct. 22.
In honor of his centenary, the New York-based Robert Rauschenberg Foundation is spearheading a global program of exhibitions, publications, performances and other events.
As one of the nation’s premiere repositories of our nation’s artwork, The Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown is joining in the celebration.
The museum holds dear the Rauschenberg pieces in its collection and is displaying at least eight of his rarely seen collage silkscreen works, with archival information. The exhibition is in the Segall Gallery on the second floor of The Butler’s North building (enter through the main museum entrance at 524 Wick Ave.).
The Rauschenberg exhibition opened Oct. 22 and will run through Jan. 4.
Previously, the museum also held a separate exhibition called “Touched by Rauschenberg,” which included the works of Rauschenberg alongside those of three artists who admired him: Eric Forstmann, Don Gummer and Diana Levinson.
Rauschenberg died in 2008. Louis Zona, executive director of The Butler, describes him as “one of America’s artistic giants who literally transformed the visual art world into the variety of forms which exists today. To call him an artistic genius is to underestimate the nature of his contributions to world art.”
The Butler is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. It is closed on Monday.
A couple of concerts will come to Warren on Saturday.
Louisiana blues great Tab Benoit, with JD Simo, will play the Robins Theatre at 8 p.m. For tickets, click HERE.
About a mile away, country artist Walker Hayes will bring his unplugged tour to Packard Music Hall. The stripped-down acoustic show will start early – at 6 p.m. For tickets, click HERE.
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