Classic horror movies never seem complete without some poor wretch hunched over an organ console at midnight. Joseph Nolan, organist and master of the music at St George’s Cathedral, Perth, has not taken his inspiration for this disc from Bela Lugosi or Victor Hugo, but from Woody Allen’s whimsical 2011 film, Midnight in Paris. Wandering the Latin Quarter late at night, the main male protagonist travels back in time outside the church of Saint-Etienne-du-Mont. This church is rich in artistic associations. It is revered by organists because the organist-composer Maurice Duruflé played there for most of his career. The celebrated director, Max Ophüls used the church’s interiors and exteriors in his classic 1953 film, The Earrings of Madame de… and St-Etienne is even mentioned in a Hemingway novel.
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