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CLASSICAL: Ogden scores on the hoof for classic film; Organist Nigel Ogden talks to Christopher Morley about the challenge of improvising an accompaniment to a silent classic.(News)

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20070614
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Byline: Christopher Morley

One of radio's longest-running programmes is BBC Radio 2's The Organist Entertains, first broadcast in 1969 and hosted since 1980 by Nigel Ogden.

But tomorrow night Ogden abandons the studio for the console of Symphony Hall's organ to accompany the classic 1925 silent film Phantom of the Opera, starring Lon Chaney.

"The whole idea behind the thing is that it's an improvised accompaniment, so really in terms of the actual notes that you play, there isn't a lot of rehearsing you can do," he explains.

He has improvised to Phantom of the ...

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