Peter Krasinski has premiered the art of live improvised silent film accompaniment worldwide. He received the First Prize in improvisation from the American Guild of Organists National Competition. Organ historian Barbara Owen, author of many definitive books about the pipe organ and the biography of influential organist E. Power Biggs, wrote of Mr. Krasinski: "He takes us in. We are no longer sitting in pews in a warm church on a dark night watching tinted images flicker across a screen...."  This will be the fourth in Mr. Krasinski's popular "Silents are Golden" presentations at the Stone Church Cultural Center.

 The Hunchback of Notre Dame is Victor Hugo's novel about a bell-ringer who falls in love, and has the misfortune of a deformity. this 1923 silent film stars Lon Chaney as Quasimodo, Patsy Ruth Miller as the beauty Esmerelda, Norman Kerry as handsome soldier Phoebus and Cedric Hardwicke as Quasimodo's cruel master Frollo, Minister of Justice. Set in 15th-century Paris.

Students under 18 will be admitted free.

This program is funded in part by the Local Cultural Councils of Hardwick-New Braintree, North Brookfield, Oakham and Petersham. Local Cultural Councils are local agencies which receive support from the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency (www.massculturalcouncil.org/about).

Friends of the Stone Church offers free tickets for EBT, WIC, or ConnectorCare cardholders, up to two per eligible cardholder, based on availability at the box office on the day of the event, through the Mass Cultural Council's Card to Culture Program.