The St. James Music Series opens the season with Rupert Julian's 1925 silent-film classic The Phantom of the Opera, projected on the silver screen with live improvised organ accompaniment by Garrett F. Martin. Lon Chaney's legendary performance as the Phantom and Mary Philbin's Christine remain among the defining images of early Hollywood horror. In the resonant acoustic of St. James by-the-Sea, the Rosales/Parsons pipe organ becomes the film's living soundtrack, supplying color, menace, romance, and theatrical thunder in real time. This is a cinema-night event with real musical risk: no canned score, no safety net, just organ, imagination, and a very large shadow in the opera house.