Store Magleby Kirke hosts the November edition of its Theology in Music series, in which a silent film screening is accompanied live on the church organ. This year's film is the classic 1926 German production Faust by F. W. Murnau, based on the tale of the unfortunate alchemist who is tempted into a pact with the devil, Mephisto. It is shown on a large screen in the church while improvised organ music from the church's resonant instrument accompanies it.
Monica Melcova, one of Europe's most prominent organ soloists and organ teachers, plays the accompaniment. She performs internationally and teaches at the San Sebastián academy in Spain, and she has previously been a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen. A few days earlier she is also due to play a Friday concert at Trinitatis Kirke.
The evening begins with a half-hour introduction by the parish priest Freja Bondgaard, who also works as a film critic, guiding the audience through the programme.
