About the program
Travel back in time as the silent film era is brought to life with a theater organ joining the orchestra for Buster Keaton’s masterpiece One Week. Michael Daugherty’s powerful organ concerto Once upon a Castle will fill the hall with sound as guest artist Carl Hackert performs on the mighty organ provided by the New York Theater Organ Society.
Program subject to change.
carl hackert, guest organistCarl E. Hackert is a graduate of the Crane School of Music having majored in music education and composition with Dr. Robert Washburn and Elliot DelBorgo. His organ teachers have included Robert Frederick, Allen Mills, Dr. William Maul, James Autenrith, Dr. Brian Jackson and Hugh Allen Wilson at Union College. He is a retired Allen Organ Company dealer having installed approximately 400 Allen organs during his 40 year career and has served as a church music director and organist for a variety of denominations for 50 years. He was harpsichordist and pianist with the Ethos Chamber Music Ensemble for 13 years.
He has performed on organ, piano, celesta and harpsichord with the symphony orchestras of Albany, Schenectady, Glens Falls and the Hudson Valley Philharmonic. As a theater organist he performs concerts and silent films at Proctors Theatre in Schenectady and he has appeared at other regional theater organ venues including the Bardavon Opera House, the Middletown Paramount, Rome's Capitol Theater, the Round Lake Auditorium and the Stissing Center. |
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