Composer Jack Curtis Dubowsky and the Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble (#JCDEnsemble) return this Halloween with Dubowsky’s original score to FW Murnau’s chilling 1922 horror classic NOSFERATU. Two shows, two historic theatres!

Says Dubowsky: “We first performed Nosferatu in 2018, and it is our most popular show. Wecontinue to refine our show; it keeps getting better and better. And there’s no better time than Halloween to come see it!”

Friday October 31, 2025, 10 pm

The Art Theatre

2025 E 4th St, Long Beach, CA 90814

Phone: (562) 438-5435

TICKETS: https://arttheatre.easy-ware-ticketing.com/generaladmission/ixy_0egYjDiyhK00N2_N4Q

General Admission $30

Member $25

Senior $27

ABOUT JACK CURTIS DUBOWSKY ENSEMBLE

#JCDEnsemble sparks new life with original scores to classic silent films including Nosferatu, TheLodger, The Golem, The Phantom Carriage, Sunrise, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and The Mark of Zorro, for which they released a soundtrack album ZORRO in 2017. A team of top players, #JCDEnsemble combines intricately composed material and structured improvisation. 

MEET THE ENSEMBLE for NOSFERATU 2025

• Jack Curtis Dubowsky – Composer, Conductor
• Ellen Burr – Flute
• Laurel Diskin – Violin
• Reanne de Klerk – Keyboards
• Matthew Miller – Percussion
• Jeff Schwartz – Double Bass
• Charles Sharp – Reeds 

ABOUT NOSFERATU
An iconic German expressionist film, directed by F. W. Murnau. Dracula became a caricature in many later films, but Nosferatu superbly exploits his contradictions: worldly but cloistered, approachable but distant, mannered but deadly. The film’s element of the Black Death – the European plague with no cure – would have resonated strongly with a 1922 audience that survived the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 that killed over 40 million people. Nosferatu leans lighter on the daylight-garlic-crucifix tropes that are clichés in later films, and (avoiding spoilers here) keeps his ancestry and demise mysterious and opaque. The film emphasizes the supernatural with stunning high-speed special effects, created in-camera.

For more information, visit:

http://destijlmusic.com/jcde/

https://www.facebook.com/JackCurtisDubowskyEnsemble/

Jack Curtis Dubowsky is a Professional Artist Fellow of the Arts Council for Long Beach
https://artslb.org/programs/grants/professional-artist-fellowship/
https://artslb.org/artists/jack-curtis-dubowsky/