BRATTLEBORO — Epsilon Spires continues its silent film and pipe organ series, now in its third year, with a screening of the 1926 silver-screen-sizzler, "Flesh and the Devil" (directed by Clarence Brown, 1926, 112 mins), with renowned organist and silent film improviser Peter Krasinski. This immersive cinema experience will take place at 8 p.m.
June 15 in the sanctuary at Epsilon Spires, activating its massive, historic Estey Organ with a dynamic live soundtrack. "Flesh and the Devil" was the pre-code blockbuster that established Greta Garbo as an international superstar. It’s a swooning melodrama full of surprising plot twists, where two boyhood best friends (John Gilbert and Lars Hanson) get caught in a dangerous love triangle with a mesmerizing femme-fatale.
Krasinski has achieved national praise as a solo organist as well as an accompanist of early silent films. He won the first prize in improvisation from the American Guild of Organists, and has played recitals at Notre-Dame in Paris, Riverside Church and Trinity Wall Street in New York, and Old South Church in Boston, where he maintains an active career. Krasinsky is also credited as organist and choir leader in the recent Oscar-nominated hit "The Holdovers," being a vital contributor toward director Alexander Payne.
Krasinski has previously performed at Epsilon Spires, providing an energetic live soundtrack for Fritz Lang’s 1927 masterpiece, "Metropolis." Krasinski will accompany a film that became notorious for .
