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    Conejo Classic Cinema Presents THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

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    recipe arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;”>Conejo Classic Cinema presents a screening of the Lon Chaney classic silent film, The Phantom of the Opera, with live piano accompaniment by concert pianist Rick Friend.  The film will screen at the Hillcrest Center for the Arts, 403 West Hillcrest in Thousand Oaks, on Sunday, November 6th at 6:30pm.

    In this silent horror classic, aspiring young opera singer Christine Daaé (Mary Philbin) discovers that she has a mysterious admirer intent on helping her become a lead performer. This enigmatic masked presence is Erik, also known as the phantom (Lon Chaney), a horribly disfigured recluse who lives underneath the paris opera house. When the phantom takes Christine prisoner and demands her devotion and affection, her suitor, Vicomte Raoul de Chagny (Norman Kerry), sets out to rescue her. Film features piano accompaniment by Rick Friend.

    RICK FRIEND studied piano and composition at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. An avid movie buff since childhood, Rick became interested in silent movies in his high school days, when, just for fun, he and his friends rented from the library a 20-minute version of Buster Keaton’s The General. Watching it in silence for a few minutes irked his curiosity to go over to the piano and start improvising for the film as it played. From then on, he was hooked on silent movie improv music. Serious improvisations began 20 years later at the Loyola Movie Palace in Los Angeles, California, where he accompanied international silent movies such as Faust, and Madame Dubarry.  He played for 4 seasons of the Toronto International Film Festival’s Open Vault Series, and in 1987 began playing for the Toronto Film Society. He became involved in Cinemateque Ontario, accompanying their showings of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, and Carl Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc.  He has appeared as soloist with various orchestras, performing his arrangements for The Mark of Zorro, The General, The Phantom of the Opera, Nosferatu, and The Thief of Bagdad.  He has appeared with The Atlanta Symphony, The Fort Worth Symphony, the Orchestre Symphonique de Quebec, Elgin Symphony, IL, the Ocean City Pops in New Jersey, and numerous times with the symphony orchestras of Springfield, MA, Regina, SK, Traverse City, MI, Kalispell, MT (The Glacier Symphony) and Saskatoon, SK, where he recently brought the Harold Lloyd comedy, Safety Last.

    General Admission Tickets are $10 and can be purchased by contacting the box office at (805) 381-1246 or www.hillcrestarts.com.

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    WHAT: The Phantom of the Opera – Starring Lon Chaney – Silent Movie Concerts with Rick Friend

    WHEN: Sunday, November 6th at 6:30 pm
    Hillcrest Center for the Arts

    403 W. Hillcrest Drive

    Thousand Oaks, CA
    HOW:  (805) 381-1246 or www.hillcrestcenter.com
    TICKETS:  Single Tickets:  $10 general admission

     

    OTHER:  Free parking is always available.

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